Unbreakable by Elizabeth Norris
Four months after Ben disappeared through the portal to his home universe, Janelle believes she’ll never see him again. Her world is still devastated, but life is finally starting to resume some kind of normalcy. Until Interverse Agent Taylor Barclay shows up. Somebody from an alternate universe is running a human trafficking ring, kidnapping people and selling them on different Earths—and Ben is the prime suspect. Now his family has been imprisoned and will be executed if Ben doesn’t turn himself over within five days.
And when Janelle learns that someone she cares about—someone from her own world—has become one of the missing, she knows that she has to help Barclay, regardless of the danger. Now Janelle has five days to track down the real culprit. Five days to locate the missing people before they’re lost forever. Five days to reunite with the boy who stole her heart. But as the clues begin to add up, Janelle realizes that she’s in way over her head—and that she may not have known Ben as well as she thought. Can she uncover the truth before everyone she cares about is killed?(less)
My Thoughts
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This read like a summer blockbuster. And I liked it. It’s fast, action filled, with twists you don’t quite expect all made even more enjoyable with a lead that made sense. She’s a softer version of what I recall from book one, though. She’s still thinking and still doing but everything she’s gone through has added a layer of vulnerability to her. Yet there she was leading the way and doing what needed doing, so that while she’s pining for what’s gone and what could have been and what she wants, she’s still present. I love how the necessities aren’t drowned out by maybe love conquering all or even by love lost.
I enjoyed this even more with each reveal into other people’s character: how one maybe not so perfect after all, and another might not be so bad either, yet all the while there’s Janelle being who she was… thinking, being, doing not consumed over what’s not there, or who’s not there.
But it’s certain others proving themselves more, that allowed more of the excitement happen. Her world’s been destroyed and people were going missing, then a blast from the past in the form of Barclay, and you just know that there’s a connection somewhere somehow. Despite the an unlikely pairing here, it’s one that I was glued to because the same made it clear that this girl would do what she had to. So while there are some proving themselves capable of more, there’s some others screwing up in the major sense... A surprise moment of me choked up is what happened after. I seriously wasn’t expecting moments like this. I mean this has men in black types, and here I was getting misty eyed? You caught me unawares Norris… good on you.
Anyway. Portal jumping. The sci-fi feel of these books just got stronger, with more things happening beyond her world, but it’s not just the portal jumping, multiple universes that made this a different read, there’s that mystery of what’s happening now, and why/how does Ben/ Janelle figure into the scheme of things. And the scheme in this one, ‘twas a grand one indeed, at times a bit convoluted with not all aspects explained, but darned it, it entertained me!
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