WHAT a weird book. 
 This book reminded me of Maximum Ride. I liked those books. Except for, Virals made less sense. 
 Let's start with what I liked. There's the main character, who is smart (which is good) but overly smart (not so good). There's three guys on the island she lives on... I like guys ;D The guys are all sciency (ummmmmm, that WAS a little far-fetched....) ANYWAYS, there's a cute rich guy named Chance (I like cute rich guys. I like the name Chance. It's just a good combo) (Oh, and he's not one of them on the island). There's a puppy wolf thing! (I like puppies! I like wolves! Yay!) 
 Okay, on to what I didn't like..... 
 Dr. Karsten (was it spelled Karsten? I forget, even though it was only like a week ago! Ahhhh!) was a bad guy. Okay. But he was a MEAN bad guy. And then, all of a sudden, he was a nice guy? What? And then.... He was dead? What? Emma no understand! Character changes no should happen this quickly! (Excuse my baby talk....) 
 Then there was the romance.... Okay, so in the first chapter, Tory checks out Ben. Which means she considers him a viable option for romance. Then she thinks about Jason, the cute popular guy at school who talks to her. And I was like, aww, a love triangle. And then, Tory sees Chance, the richest, most popular guy in school. Who has a steady girlfriend who he will one day marry. And Tory likes him? But... Jason likes her.... And Ben's just kind of there.... And Chance betrays her... And the entire book, I couldn't see Ben's character and not think of Tory checking him out. It just hung over all the romance the entire book. If you are as confused as I was, well then. You're very confused. 
 One more thing, but this is more about the whole book/series as a whole. So, Tory Brennen is Temperance Brennen's niece. Kathy Reichs wrote a whole original series about Temperance. While I'm not opposed to writing a sequel-series to one you've already written, it has to be done with class to work. And, well, that... was not class. There was a ridiculous amount of name dropping. I was not a fan. 
 But I like the story, and, while the romance was confusing, I DO want to find out who Tory ends up with.... So I'll probably read the next one.....