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Reviewed by Janelle Fila for Readers' Favorite
The Great Escape by Sabra Breanne Davis starts with Declend's mother telling them they have to move, again. Declend doesn't understand why his mom makes him move every year. She says it is to keep him safe, but all of his friends are safe. There's no comet coming to strike the earth. No zombie apocalypse. What Declend doesn't understand is that he has special powers and his mother is trying to protect him from the people who want to take advantage of those powers. People who kidnap Declend when he refuses to leave with his mother. People who experiment on Declend and use all kinds of horrible tests to gauge the strength of his power and mutate it into a weapon they can control and use. Declend knows he needs to escape, but escape isn't always easy, even when you have super powers.
The Great Escape is an interesting story with a lot of weird hallucinations and creepy characters. Davis does a good job of camouflaging a lot of the characters' motivations so the reader never quite knows for certain who is actually helping Declend and who is looking out for their own interests. I think fans of thriller stories will appreciate the action that the author describes and how the story always moves forward at a nice, fast pace. I also liked the connection between Declend and his mother and how he wished he had listened to her and just wanted to make her proud.
