J. Giambrone

Transfixion is a modern day story that starts as your typical day for a teenager before school, and then it all changes in an instant when one teenage girl hears strange noises coming from her brother’s tv……Kaylee quickly realizes not only is her mother dead, but her brother is intent on killing her and she has to escape and fast. But it only takes moments after leaving her home to realize something is very wrong. People are screaming and running, and others are lying dead on the ground. She escapes to her best friend’s house hoping to get help, but finds it abandoned. Not only that, she quickly realizes there are many more just like her brother, somehow programmed to kill anyone that escaped the programming.
She eventually meets up with other’s that like her have not been programmed and they join forces to stay alive. Kaylee really seems to grow throughout the story, in the beginning she seems like a very spoiled self-centered child, but the end she is willingly sacrificing her safety for others and finding ways to save the “programmed” people instead of outright killing them all.
This book is a great YA book, the violence is not so descript that I would fear young teens reading it, it did not have a lot of sexual content and I have actually already recommended to several teens in the 12-15 age range. I really enjoyed this book, it moved very quickly and had a great flow to it.
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