Seizure: A Virals Novel (Virals, #2)

by Kathy Reichs

Lost treasure. Perilous adventures. Deadly foes.

Tory and her friends are just starting to get a handle on their super-heightened wolf-like capabilities—contracted during a medical experiment gone horribly wrong—when they find out funding is being pulled from the institute where their parents work. The pack now faces its greatest fear—separation. So when Tory stumbles across ancient lore hinting at a lost pirate treasure, the Virals devise a risky plan that pits them against fiendish traps, headless corpses, and deep underground tunnels. But they're not the only ones looking, and the competition could be lethal. They'll need to work as one mystery-solving canine force if they to hope to uncover the lost fortune, save the institute, and stick together!

• ISBN10: 1595144862
• ISBN13: 9781595144867
• Publish Date: 12 March 2013 (first published 1 October 2011)
• Publish Status: Out of Stock
• Out of Print: 24 August 2020
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Puffin Books
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 491
• Language: English

Reviews

[wyvernfriend]

I'm still not sure about this series, some of it I do like but there are other parts where it's straining my credulity (and I'm pretty flexible when it comes to strange and unusual) it just doesn't mesh right for me, it's the sum of the parts rather than one thing and it holds potential that seems to fall over for me. Other people's mileage may vary.

This time the pack have to deal with a possibility that they will be broken up because the labs their parents work for is being closed. They find out about pirate treasure and they decide to hunt it. What they find is surprising and lies are becoming easier for everyone.

not bad, not stellar.

[tellemonstar]

Seizure was a fun adventure – how many people haven’t thought of going on a treasure hunt at least once in their lifetime. The pirates were a great way of drawing you into the story, and are in keeping with the history of Charleston and North Carolina.

The Virals get up to just as much mischief as they did in the previous books, although there is somewhat less shooting involved. A lot of night-time adventures and narrowly avoiding getting grounded – again.

The teens are still fairly normal teens despite what they have been through together and it was nice to see that. There are a lot of YA novels lately that seem to have anyone with even the slightest of superpowers be either completely oblivious to that fact for most of their lives then accept it like they always had their superpowers, or go completely the opposite direction. The Virals manage to have a freak-out about their newly acquired powers, but also accept that they can’t do anything about it, whether or not they want the powers, without going overboard.

All in all Seizure was a good YA mystery. The science that was in it was nicely explained so that even if you don’t have a real science brain, you can understand it. The mystery was well-plotted and interesting and the adventure was fun.

Full review here