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Don't Look Now (PERSEFONE Series Book 3) Kindle Edition

by Michelle Gagnon (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

4.2 91 ratings

Book 3 of 4: PERSEFONE Series

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This follow-up to the critically acclaimed Don't Turn Around—which Kirkus Reviews called "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo for teens, a surefire hit"—raises the stakes to their absolute limit and will leave readers begging for the exciting conclusion. Having outsmarted the sinister Project Persephone, Noa and her friend Zeke are on the run again, moving across the country, protecting runaways before they become test subjects for the Project's horrific experiments. Noa knows all too well what that feels like: Whatever was done to her has left her exhausted and scared.

Back in Boston, Peter anxiously follows Noa's movements from his computer. But he's desperate to do more, especially when he learns what the Project has done to his ex-girlfriend, Amanda.

Then, in an explosive confrontation, Noa and her team are trapped in the one place they thought was safe. It will take everything Noa and Peter have to bring down the Project. And with no one to trust and enemies hiding at every turn, they may be the only people alive who can.

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Gr 8 Up-Having escaped the clutches of Project Persephone at the conclusion of Don't Turn Around (HarperCollins, 2012), teen hacker Noa finds herself on the run. Along with fellow runaway Zeke, she takes down Persephone labs across the country and rescues as many kids as possible from experimentation and death. Back home in Boston, Peter runs the information side of things, providing data, blueprints, and technical support for their raids, all while dealing with some harsh difficulties of his own. They save a few kids at a time, but they are still just a small group of untrained teenagers against a ruthless corporate army that will stop at nothing to recapture Noa and finish her pathetic resistance. This second book in a trilogy introduces new characters and new threats to Noa and Peter and leads them headlong into a conclusion that should be eagerly anticipated. Don't Look Now is not as tech-heavy as the first book, mostly because Gagnon has taken those duties away from Noa and turned her more into a Katniss-type leader and symbol, leaving Peter to do the heavy lifting in the computer department. The action is a little more balanced this time around, spread throughout the book, and there are some serious issues along the way for all involved. Gagnon handles these developments and revelations well and they hit readers with the same force as they hit the characters. A few savvy teens will find the twists and turns to be fairly obvious, but they by no means detract from the fun of getting there.-Erik Knapp, Davis Library, Plano, TXα(c) Copyright 2013. Library Journal. LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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Don’t Turn Around (2012) introduced the unpleasant notion of a pharmaceutical company stealing homeless kids and experimenting on them to create a wonder drug. This sequel contains every bit of the same whiz-bang, splitting our heroes down two parallel plots. Though Noa is experiencing strange physical changes since her operation, she nonetheless has become the leader of Persefone’s Army, a group of teen revolutionaries who stage raids on the corporation’s secret labs in the Southwest—although the latest raid might have led to a traitor in their midst. Meanwhile, Peter’s still in Boston, hacking hither and yon to figure out the secret to the deadly PEMA virus. Noa and Peter, who seemed to be heading toward romance in the first book, find themselves lusting for companions closer at hand, and these relationships become, shall we say, complicated. Hacking is usually death to prose, but Gagnon pulls it off smashingly, accelerating the crosscutting to a delirious pace by book’s end. Don’t chew those fingernails too hard—you’ll need them to turn the pages of the next volume. Grades 9-12. --Daniel Kraus

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00BATG0W2
Publisher ‏ : ‎ HarperCollins; Reprint edition (August 27, 2013)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 27, 2013
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 3294 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 341 pages

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Michelle Gagnon is a former modern dancer, bartender, dog walker, model, personal trainer, and Russian supper club performer. Her bestselling thrillers have been published in North America, France, Spain, Argentina, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, and Australia. BONEYARD was a finalist for a 2009 Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence in Mystery/Suspense. The first book in her Young Adult PERSEFONE trilogy, DON'T TURN AROUND received four starred reviews and was an IndieNext and Junior Library Guild selection. Nominated for a Thriller Award, it was also chosen as one of the best YA novels of 2012 by Kirkus, the American Library Association, and the Junior Library Guild.

Michelle splits her time between San Francisco and Los Angeles.

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M Mitchell

!!!(spoilers)

Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2014

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So yes this book was amazing. But also it really missed me off, first off how stupid people were being about violence. Violence comes with what they are doing and guns would have led to more success ugh but whatever. Very sad that zeke died and that we don't know what happens to the other team, or if Roy and Monica were actually bad. But I know zeke had to go so Peter and noa could work out. I also don't really get how they know there's a cure, well I mean noa is the cure but that means pike doesn't have it.

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Sadie

Not as good as the first book

Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2013

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I was really waiting for this sequel to Don't Turn Around. So much so, that I purchased it the first day it came out and paid full price. Something I never do.

Where Don't Turn Around had me on the edge of my seat the entire way through, Don't Look Now had me falling asleep night after night. It was only about 3/4 of the way through that it started to get interesting. It lacks the fast pace and heart pounding adventure of the first book.

I believe there's a third book coming out but this did not leave me wanting more. Usually the second in a trilogy is just a filler, but the story ends here for me.

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Aha

I'm recommending this to friends right and left...

Reviewed in the United States on September 13, 2013

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I finished this book within 3 days of when it came out on Kindle, and now I have to sit on my hands until the third book is available. I thought this middle book might be more tedious than the first because it has to span the gap, but that was NOT the case. In a lot of ways I thought it was more creative than the first book, and I ended up caring more about the characters.

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A. Percival

OMG

Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2014

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this was better than the first one. I read it in one day, I couldn't put it down. if you haven't started this series yet you need to. it made me laugh, cry, and care deeply about the characters. GET THIS BOOK

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Karen M. Rodiek

Great YA read.

Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2013

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Even though I'm way beyond being a YA, I find many of these books to be well done and entertaining for OA's (older adults) as well. Great story line, terrific characters and even though the deadly disease affecting teens isn't real, so many of the issues the kids face in the story are real for many kids today. Well done and I look forward to following the series as it moves along.

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Jason M.

Amazing

Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2017

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Don't look now is an amazing sequel to don't turn around. It is suspenseful, emotional, and has an interesting way of switching between views of characters.

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Sam

A bit of a disappointment

Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2013

I found Don't Look Now to be pretty disappointing, overall. I really enjoyed Don't Turn Around and was, therefore, really looking forward to this book. But, all I got was a disappointing sequel that definitely suffered from "middle book syndrome".

The story felt like it went in a completely different direction than the first book. It also had a very different tone. Don't Turn Around was non-stop action that kept me captivated and not wanting to put it down, whereas this one was much of a slower-pace. I wouldn't say this book was boring, but it just had a very different tone than the first book and I wasn't prepared for that.

Now, after completing the book, I feel like the plot didn't progress at all from the first book. It feels as if we are basically where we were at the end of first book, with a couple more kids saved and a couple more people dead. But, not much has changed from where the first book left off. Middle book syndrome!

I had some issues with some aspects throughout the story. I thought that some things seemed kind of unrealistic at times. For example, Peter goes to break into someone's home and purchases a key to let him in easily. He purchases a master key that opens "any and all dead bolts, regardless of brand." Umm...okay...if that actually existed, it kind of defeats the purpose of keys and locks in the first place. Talk about making it easy for Peter to break in!

I thought that all of the characters seemed different in Don't Look Now than they were in Don't Turn Around. I don't mean that they grew as characters and have changed that way...I mean that they are just different. They almost seem like completely different characters in some ways. And I didn't find them to be as likeable either. In the first book, Noa was all independent and badass and tough. And now she's like a typical teenager with boy problems and everything. She's totally lost her edge! She also didn't do any hacking in this book...at all! She just threw all her hacking skills to the wind in order to lead this renegade squad of teens. What?? This book is supposed to be a teen spin on The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. What happened to her hacking?? That's who Noa is! Suffice it to say, Noa is COMPLETELY different in this book.

Don't Look Now wasn't a bad book. It was just very disappointing, especially after liking Don't Turn Around so much. The characters weren't as good and neither was the story. Not cool.

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Gregory

Great book

Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2014

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I have never read a book in my life without getting bored and putting it down however this story I couldn't stop reading can't wait for the third book to come out

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