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Summary

Ultraviolet is a science-fiction novel about a synesthete sent to mental institution, suspected of a murder of her classmate. Quicksilver, the companion novel to Ultraviolet, tells the story a teen trying to uncover her strange roots.  

Stats

Genre: Teen (13-16 years) high fantasy with threads of political intrigue and romance.

Series length: Three books, plus prequel trilogy (The Kinsman Chronicles)

Violence: Moderate fantasy violence

Magic/Supernatural: Light to moderate supernatural

Romance: Minimal until the end of book 2; moderate after that. 

Christian/spiritual element: Overt allegorical elements

Recommendation: Excellent for boys or girls who enjoy medieval fantasy and high adventure

You might like this book if you liked... 
The Lord of the Rings, Eragon, or books by Chuck Black.

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Opening Lines:

Zero (Is Translucent)

Once upon a time there was a girl who was special. Her hair flowed like honey and her eyes were blue as music. She grew up bright and beautiful, with deft fingers, a quick mind, and a charm that impressed everyone she met. Her parents adored her, her teachers praised her, and her schoolmates admired her many talents. Even the oddly shaped birthmark on her upper arm seemed like a sign of some great destiny.

This is not her story.
​Unless you count the part where I killed her.

Ultraviolet 
by R. J. Anderson

“Once upon a time there was a girl who was special. This is not her story. Unless you count the part where I killed her.”

Sixteen-year-old Alison wakes up in a mental institution. As she pieces her memory back together, she realizes she’s confessed to murdering Tori Beaugrand, the most perfect girl at school. But the case is a mystery. Tori’s body has not been found, and Alison can't explain what happened. One minute she was fighting with Tori. The next moment Tori disintegrated―into nothing.

But that's impossible. No one is capable of making someone vanish. Right? Alison must be losing her mind―like her mother always feared she would.

For years Alison has tried to keep her weird sensory abilities a secret. No one ever understood―until a mysterious visiting scientist takes an interest in Alison’s case. Suddenly, Alison discovers that the world is wrong about her―and that she’s capable of far more than anyone else would believe.

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Prologue: Aliasing
(The distortion that results when a reconstructed signal is different from the original)

One June 7, the year I turned sixteen, I vanished without a trace.

On September 28 of the same year I cam back, with a story so bizarre that only my parents would ever believe it and a secret I couldn't share even with them.

And four weeks later I woke up in my hometown on Saturday morning as Victoria Beaugrand and went to bed that night in another city as a completely different person. 

Quicksilver (Companion novel to Ultraviolet)
by R. J. Anderson

Back home Tori was the girl who had everything a sixteen-year-old could want—popularity, money, beauty. Everything. Including a secret. That secret made her very valuable.

Now she's left everything from her old life behind, including her real name and Alison, the only person who truly understood her. She can't lose the secret. But if she wants to have anything resembling a normal life, she has to blend in and hide her unique…talents.

Plans change when the enigmatic Sebastian Faraday reappears in Tori's life and delivers bad news: she hasn't escaped. In fact, she's attracted new interest in the form of an obsessed ex-detective now in the employ of a genetics lab.

She has only one shot at ditching her past for good and living like the normal human she wishes she could be. Tori must use every ounce of her considerable hacking and engineering skills—and even then, she might need to sacrifice more than she could possibly imagine if she wants to be free.

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