*He actually changed the cover right before I posted my original review over on Supagurls and it was a great decision. This one relates to the story so much more and it's more intriguing in my opinion.
Blurb
"...the scientific explanation is quantum entanglement, whereby the boy and girl—even when separated by great distances—react instantaneously to changes in each other's states..." —Dr. Casler Selavio, on the entanglement of halves.
In a world like ours, humans are born in pairs. When a newborn boy takes his first breath in the coastal town of Tularosa, the exact time is noted, recorded in the Registry, and later compared to the birth times of other newborns around the globe. There will be one identical match—his half. They will meet on their eighteenth birthday and they will spend their lives together. Except this time, there is no match.
Hotheaded heartthrob Aaron Harper is scheduled to meet his half in twenty-nine days, and he doesn’t buy a word of that entanglement crap. So what if he and his half were born the same day and share a spooky psychic connection? Big deal. After breaking one too many teenage girls’ hearts, he’ll stick to brawling with the douchebag rugby players any day.
Until the day a new girl arrives at school and threatens everything he takes for granted.
Cold and unapproachable, Amber Lilian hates the growing list of similarities between her and the one boy she can’t read, Aaron: born the same day, both stubborn, both terrified of meeting their halves. . . . All the more reason not to trust him. That she would rather die than surrender herself as her half’s property is none of his damn business. But once lost in Aaron’s dangerous, jet black eyes, she’s already surrendered more than she cares to admit.
Tangled in each other’s self-destructive lives, Aaron and Amber learn the secret behind their linked births and why they feel like halves—but unless they can prove it before they turn eighteen, Aaron faces a lifetime alone in a world where everyone else has a soul mate . . . and he’ll have to watch Amber give herself to a boy who intends to possess not only her body but also a chunk of her soul.
My Review
4.5 Stars
I was attracted to the story from the beginning; Dan Rix wasted no time diving head first into a plot that kept my head spinning. It was well thought out and the world Rix created in Entanglement and the concept was intricate and suspenseful. I was engulfed by the first few chapters and drawn into Aaron Harper’s world where halves are determined when you’re born. There’s no choice, you have no say and on your eighteenth birthday you meet the other half of your soul. Except Aaron doesn’t buy the “halves” concept and neither does the new girl he meets Amber Lilian.
Entanglement is full of complex characters and a web weaved
with secrets, destinies, tangled life lines and two teenagers fighting for their
rights and each other. Both Aaron and Amber are trapped in their own downward
spiral of self-destruction when they meet, each of them giving up for their own
reasons. I loved everything from the fast pace, intricate characters, and the detailed concept Rix created. Oh, how the story began unfolding at an alarming rate after they meet as they continue stirring up more trouble than they could imagine trying to
save each other before it’s too late. Aaron Harper or number eleven is a strong
willed, teenage heart throb that any girl will fall for and there’s something
about his character that sucked me in and I wanted to know more, to see what
made fueled his temper. Amber is feisty and just as engaging, she fights
everybody the entire time, she never gave up and was just as smart as Aaron and
they complimented each other. The snappy dialogue and complicated relationships
and circumstances kept me guessing. The supporting characters were a delight
because I was never sure who was good or evil and if anybody (or who I
expected) was going to step in. Dan Rix’s use of their roles and ambiguity
about their true loyalties made the story even more thrilling and detailed.
*Seriously this is how I felt with almost every turn of the
page. I probably even made the same face.*
I really enjoy stories like this where at the end everything
comes together smoothly and blends until you’re convinced you just witnessed
the whole thing literally. Entanglement was full of those wonderful awkwardly
amazing moments that steal your breath and demand you keep reading until the
wee hours of the morning and I even found myself holding my breath scared to
keep reading.
*and then of course there was this face and my begging that
what I was reading wasn't really true and that it was a trick.
At one point I thought the entire book changed and as I kept
reading I realized Dan Rix did introduce something that changed everything and
the need to finish the book was undeniable. I tuned everything out from my
step-mom to the radio in the background and all I heard was the words as I kept
reading. Completely lost in the story and fidgeting with excitement. My heart
is still throbbing from the explosive ending to Entanglement.
My favorite line and I highlighted a bunch was “the task is
not to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought
about that which everybody sees.”
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