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Book Review of Golden

Golden
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Helpful Score: 1


When Lissy and Lexie's family is forced to leave California for a small town in Oklahoma, Lissy is determined to act normal and be accepted. That is cue to suppress her mysterious but often just inconvenient Seer ability to see people's auras: different colors for different personalities. Yeah, an ingredient for "freak," right?

At Emory High, the cliques are terrible. You are either a Golden--the popular and the gorgeous--or you are a Non. It doesn't help that the triumvirate of the Golden girls seems to have it in for Lissy, simple because of her awkwardness. Well, and a few things that involve her freaky ability to see auras.

Lissy finds companionship in her friends Audra and Dylan as she reluctantly grows into her Seer abilities and begins to figure out the extent of her power. However, there's also a powerful evil lurking in the hallways of Emory High. Lissy needs to find out who it is and how to defeat it before it destroys her magical family and everyone she knows.

The story is interesting but the writing falls flat. None of the characters have time to grow into three-dimensional figures for me. Jennifer Lynn Barnes has a while to go before she will be fully developed. At least she's still young.