The Darkest minds by Alexandra Bracken is about children suddenly becoming ill and dying. Those who don't die start to experience these extraordinary powers classified into either green, blue, yellow, orange or red. Greens are smart, blues can lift things with there minds, yellows control electricity, oranges have mind powers and reds? Well I'm not too sure about that. Ruby is the main character and when the disease hit she hide herself as a green to save herself, she knew oranges were no good and she only wanted to return home. After a few years at Thurmond (the camp the gifted children are set to for rehabilitation) she has seen all of the reds, oranges and yellows disappear, die, for being too dangerous. Only Ruby's secret is about to be released. 
 So first thing I will address is that I have read reviews with people saying why are they killing the gifted children and dooming themselves? Well fear is the obvious answer. If you knew a child could control your mind and make you kill yourself without you resisting wouldn't you fear these children? Humans fear what they do not understand and this book is a prime example of this. 
 I found Ruby to be an awesome character who has maor problems to overcome which is entirely reasonable I mean hello 6 years in a camp with people who hate your guts. I liked how she was able to overcome them when there was a problem and I loved her character. 
 Liam and Clancy were awesome, Liam is my favourite character due to his basic personality that just make me love him! Clancy well he both freaks me out and makes me want to read more because he's a fascinating character to read about. 
 the darkest minds has a strong enough plot although the middle is kinda the same thing for like 200 pages but to be honest that allowed me to fall in love with some of the characters and get to know them and bring them to life for me. I didn't have to wait for the main character to form opinions because I could do that myself and I enjoyed that. Also you were able to learn more about this new world that America had been formed into. I was able to see the effects of imprisoning the children with powers and how there economy and society were not doing so well as a result of that. This meant I could see the world for what it was and draw an accurate picture in my head of what it was like, the conversations with Chubs, Zu and Liam meant I could be like okay they know the drill and they explain the events such as the childrens league, the slip kid and so many other factors Ruby being on her own would not have brought to me. 
 I really enjoyed this book, I cant wait to obtain the second book in the trilogy because the way the novel ended just made me want more. I loved the way she ended it and I want to see what happens next ASAP. I want to know what the different players in the game are going to do and why Ruby si going to be important in the main scheme of things (lets be honest we all know she is going to be important sooner or later!). 
 well I'm signing off but I will leave you with this give the book a shot...it may be your cup of tea it may not but I thought it was a good enough book to send me off to another place for a few hours and leave me waiting for more. The awesome covers helps as well I suppose.