The Darkest Minds is a teen & young adult novel. It is the first book in Darkest Minds novel series which is authored by Alexandra Bracken. Among her best novels, you will find The Darkest Legacy right up there at the top. Moreover, you will find Never Fade to be a very close second in that list. Amy McFadden has done the narration of The Darkest Minds novel. The narration was not good and the narrator felt a bit tired and monotonous with her voice.
When Ruby woke up on her 10th birthday, there was something about her that had changed. It was something alarming enough to make her parents lock her in the garage and then call the police. It was something that got her sent to Thurmond. It was a brutal government rehabilitation camp. She might have also survived the mysterious disease that killed most of the children of America. But she and a few others emerged with something far worse. There were frightening abilities that they couldn’t control.
Ruby was 16 then and become one of the most dangerous individuals.
But the time when the truth about their abilities of Ruby surfaced, the truth that she had hidden from everyone, then even the camp authorities also came out. Ruby hardly escaped Thurmond with her life. She was on the run and she joined a group of kids who escaped well through their camp. Zu was a young girl who was haunted by her past. Chubs was a standoffish kind of brainiac. Moreover, Lian was their brave leader who was falling quite hard for Ruby. But no matter how much she aches for him; Ruby just couldn’t risk getting any closer. It was not after what happened to her parents.
