Praise for Charisma '.this fast-paced and edgy novel has enough thrills, romance, and family drama to please a wide audience.
Aislyn must find a way to stop it, before it's too late. The media goes into a frenzy when the disease turns contagious, and then deadly, and the doctor who gave it to them disappears. But strangely, so are some other kids she knows. Aislyn suffers from crippling shyness - that is, until she's offered a dose of Charisma, an underground gene therapy drug guaranteed to make her shine. A chance at the ultimate makeover means deadly consequences. An adequate choice for medium to larger collections.An edge-of-your-seat thriller from the bestselling author of, Nerve, the book behind 2016's hottest YA film, starring Emma Roberts, Dave Franco & Juliette Lewis. Aislyn's relationship with her boyfriend is chaste by necessity (so she doesn't spread the virus), but there are some mild suggestions of more mature desires. The science is explained well enough for non-scientist readers to understand, and gives teens much to think about regarding medical ethics and experimentation. Not a far step from Ned Vizzini's Be More Chill (Hyperion, 2004), this novel features more current, realistic medical technology. Charisma may not be the answer Aislyn was hoping for. Then the symptoms start appearing in people who haven't had the therapy. But some other teens have been given the treatment, too, and have collapsed. Her new gregarious self isn't afraid to talk to the boy she's been crushing on, or go to parties, or be a normal teenager. So when a researcher offers her a chance to overcome her social anxieties with an experimental gene therapy, Aislyn jumps at the chance. She'd love to talk to people and advocate for gene therapies as a treatment for various illnesses, like her brother's cystic fibrosis, but she freezes up and can't get words out.
Gr 8 Up-Aislyn is cripplingly shy: she's very smart and could have won the state science fair with her research on gene therapies, if only she'd been able to bring herself to talk to the judges about it.
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