Henry Melton

An adventurous look at particle physics from a YA point of view, this book is a fast read that succeeded in fooling me about who the ultimate bad guy would turn out to be. The protagonist was sympathetic, and so were most other characters, though the carnies were given a bit of gloss on some levels. The engineering/scientific approach the protag uses to experiment with her condition and figure out how to cope with it were well-thought out and some of them were outright funny. The dark matter involved, however, did not really fit anything known about the stuff, and amounted on several occasions to handwavium. I did enjoy the Tinkerbell act and the way it was used to conceal the heroine's 'superhuman' abilities.… (plus d'informations)