C I N Series by Christina Pritchard - Review ~ Reviewing in Chaos

C I N

by Christina Pritchard

Publication Date: April 13, 2010

Genre: YA

Synopsis:

Seventeen year old Lisa Brown’s life is falling apart. First, her mother and father divorce, then their house forecloses and now, her mother has decided to commit herself to a psychiatric hospital.
If that weren’t enough, she must leave sunny south Florida to attend a boarding school full of geniuses in cold, Lynn, Massachusetts. The city where the locals chant “Lynn, Lynn, city of sin; you never come out the way you went in.”
And, they aren’t kidding. Lisa must live in a tiny shack with two strange teenagers, a dog named Pig who growls when you look at him and a cat named Rat. “Mind the cat,” everyone says. What the heck is wrong with this place?
Lisa thinks she’s landed in her own house of horrors with the anti-social Alex and his facetious sister Ally. But, the real drama begins the day she is struck by lightning…

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My Thoughts:

C I N is one of those books that keeps twisting and turning. Just when you think you've figured it out, the author throws a new secret at you and you're left reeling with the news. I was sucked into it and had quite a few times when I argued with my phone (reading it on my kindle app) while my family looked at me like I was crazy. Just when you think Lisa's life can't get any worse (dad gone, mom dumped her while she went to the looney bin) she's thrust into this world of secrets and mysterious powers. Everyone seems to have a secret. I am definitely recommending this one to my teens!

Traitor

by Christina Pritchard

Publication Date: July 12, 2012

Genre: YA

Synopsis:

Lisa thinks she knows everything about her new life. She can deal with the boundaries and even being torn away from her family. But Alex withheld more than she ever expected. Like, what happens when you lose control? How about when you begin to realize just how trapped you are? He leaves out a lot of stuff about himself too. He doesn’t mention the dangers of some of the others—or of what she herself can do…

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My Thoughts:

I had a hard time putting down the first in the series. C I N left me with more questions than answers. I was thrilled to start Traitor immediately afterwards. Book 2 in the C I N series was just as good as the first! It was full of back story to help answers so of the questions that were pestering me from book 1. However, it threw just as many new questions as me. Christina did a good job of keeping me running in circles along with Lisa trying to figure out who to trust and what was real. I am looking forward to reading more of this series. In fact, I'm looking forward to re-reading books 1 & 2 to see if I can suck any more information out of them that I might of somehow missed the first time! lol!

About the Author:

Christina Leigh Pritchard was born and raised in South Florida. Her first stories were written at the age of nine in $0.15 wide ruled, spiral notebooks (which were supposed to be used for class), and in the various diaries she kept. Stories she wrote from age nine to twelve fill about four storage boxes!Since she's upgraded to a computer, she's completed over fifty books and still going strong. Her genre's include dark fantasy, young adult, drama, suspense, historical romance, multicultural, comedy, poetry and many more.