Night Sky by Suzanne Brockmann and Melanie Brockmann

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Okay, first off, I think that this book is suited for a younger audience than most YA books. The plot wasn't very intricate and I wasn't a huge fan of any of the characters.

Skylar Reid is a typical high-school girl with an overattentive mom and a best friend named Calvin who is wheel-chair bound after a bad accident when he was younger. This dynamic duo meets up with Dana and Milo, kids without IDs who are stereotypical "bad" kids but have a plethora of knowledge about all things "GT" or Greater-Than, a group of mainly females who, for reasons not sufficiently explained, are faster and stronger than normal humans, and have all sorts of powers such as telepathy. They are all hoping to find Sasha, a girl that Skylar babysits for who disappeared under sketchy circumstances involving a drug called Destiny, which is made from the blood of GTs.

The setting is a futuristic world with hubs of normality, but outside of these gated communities are people near starving, homeless people horde the streets, and people live off of garbage, and some people seem to be super rich. There doesn't appear to be any charity work or anything, just two completely segregated worlds.

I was not a huge fan of Dana or Milo, both of whom I thought were very stereotypical. Milo is first described as a skater-boy with long, shaggy hair and an addiction to cigarettes. He later curbs the habit because Skylar hates it, and he of course has to protect her. Dana comes off as shallow and doesn't seem to care about anyone except herself and Milo, and gets angry whenever she doesn't know every fact about something, although she doesn't carry a cell phone.

Overall, I thought the writing was good quality, but the characters were shallow and I was not really going for any of them. There was one scene with Calvin in particular that made me very uncomfortable- While at a night club searching for Destiny users, Dana uses her powers to allow Calvin to walk. Instead of having him just walk around with them, she forces him to dance all night, performing the Russian Roulette among other dances. It reminded me a bit of an unsuspecting mortal stepping into a fairy ring and being forced to dance until their feet bleed, although it was intended to be a lighthearted scene. Can people in wheelchairs not simply go to the club??

All in all, I thought the book was pretty dry and did not end in a cliffhanger, although there will be more books in the series. I will definitely not be wringing my hands waiting for a copy of the next book.