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    The Taking
    The Taking
    The Taking
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    The Taking

    By Kimberly Derting

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    The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer meets The Fifth Wave in this chilling and explosive new series from author Kimberly Derting.

    The last thing Kyra Agnew remembers is a flash of bright light. She awakes to discover that five whole years have passed. Everyone in her life has moved on—her parents are divorced, her boyfriend is in college and dating her best friend—but Kyra's still the sixteen-year-old she was when she vanished. She finds herself drawn to Tyler, her boyfriend's kid brother, despite her best efforts to ignore this growing attraction. In order to find out the truth, the two of them decide to retrace her steps from that fateful night. They discover that there are others who have been "taken," just like Kyra. But Kyra is the first person to have been returned past the forty-eight-hour taken mark. With a determined secret government agency after her, Kyra desperately tries to find an explanation and reclaim the life she once had . . . but what if the life she wants back is not her own?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperTeen
    Release dateApr 29, 2014
    ISBN9780062293626
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    Kimberly Derting

    Kimberly Derting is the author of the Cece Loves Science series, the Body Finder series, the Pledge trilogy, and the Taking series. She lives in the Pacific Northwest, where the gloomy weather is ideal for writing anything dark and creepy. Her three beautiful (and often mouthy) children serve as an endless source of inspiration and frequently find things they say buried in the pages of their mother’s books. You can visit her online at www.kimberlyderting.com.

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    • 5/5
      The Taking by Kimberly Derting is a fantastic sci-fi/fantasy book that had me from the first chapter. I loved her Body Finder series and loved the concept of this book so I had to read it, and boy am I glad I did! Kyra is 16 when she sees a bright light and then remembers nothing until she wakes behind a gas station. She finds she has been gone for five years but has not aged while the world she left has changed drastically. The book is a wild ride with the many changes in her life, the NSA after her, and more people that have been "taken" trying to warn her about her new life's dangers. The plot is fast and filled with twists and turns and many a surprise. The characters are realistic and dialogue believable. The fantasy is excellent and fun. I loved this book and the concept itself. Great read and started on book 2 already.
    • 4/5
      The Taking by Kimberly Derting is a fantastic sci-fi/fantasy book that had me from the first chapter. I loved her Body Finder series and loved the concept of this book so I had to read it, and boy am I glad I did! Kyra is 16 when she sees a bright light and then remembers nothing until she wakes behind a gas station. She finds she has been gone for five years but has not aged while the world she left has changed drastically. The book is a wild ride with the many changes in her life, the NSA after her, and more people that have been "taken" trying to warn her about her new life's dangers. The plot is fast and filled with twists and turns and many a surprise. The characters are realistic and dialogue believable. The fantasy is excellent and fun. I loved this book and the concept itself.
    • 5/5
      This is one of the best "alien" themed books that I have read in a long time. This book was like a cross between the Twilight Zone and X-Files. I started and finished this book in 1 day. Well actually half a day. Kyra and Tyler made a cute couple. I like that there was hardly any romance. It would have been too predictable if they had started off too quickly. Tyler is a nice guy. My other favorite was Kyra's father. He really loved Kyra. The "aliens" were cool. The ending was great. There is just one problem and that is that I have to wait to read book two.
    • 5/5
      THE TAKING was an amazing beginning to a new science fiction series. Star softball player Kyra Agnew remembers a bright light and then nothing until she wakes up behind a convenience store on day. She has been gone five years but only one night has passed for her. She returns to a very different world than she left.Her parents have divorced. Her mom has remarried and had another child. Her dad has become a conspiracy theory nut who is convinced that Kyra was abducted by aliens. Her boyfriend and best friend have moved on to college and fallen in love. Nothing is the same for Kyra.Her boyfriend's younger brother Tyler has caught up in age and become quite a "hottie." Kyra first has trouble seeing him as a serious romantic interest but his sincerity, kindness, and persistence finally convince Kyra that he is someone she can trust.She is quite sure that she can't trust Agent Truman who says he is from the NSA and she has real doubts about the boy who keeps popping up in places where she goes. When the NSA tries to capture her, it is that boy - Simon - who tells her about the others like her and who tries to help her. The story was very fast-paced. I couldn't put it down! I was as eager as Kyra to find out more about her and to try to find out what had happened to her. I loved her relationship with Tyler and had tears in my eyes at the very thrilling climax. I hope the next book comes out really, really soon. I need to know what happens next!
    • 2/5
      Does anyone else remember the movie THE FLIGHT OF THE NAVIGATOR? It was a Disney movie from the 1980's about a kid who comes home one day to discover that he's unknowingly been missing for years without having aged a day while his family and friends have all gotten older. He has no memory of the missing time and ends up on the run from the authorities in a UFO. I loved that movie as a kid and since the premise for THE TAKING was nearly identical (and because I really enjoyed Derting's THE BODY FINDER), I thought THE TAKING would be a home run.Sadly, no.The most believable thing about a book involving aliens shouldn't be the aliens, but it was. Nothing made a whole lot of sense in THE TAKING. After being missing for 5 years and having no memory of that time, no one thinks to have any medical tests done on Kyra. No one thinks it's odd that she hasn't aged a day, and in fact they don't even notice it until well into the book at a routine dentist appointment. No authorities are called to interview or investigate. No reporters show up or call for interviews. No one even asks her about it. Her family goes back to life as normal pretty much the next day, leaving Kyra to take off without notice when ever she wants (she comes home at night and everyone has already gone to bed!). It all seemed so ludicrous that people would act so casually after a missing child returns after five years-- especially since they assumed she was dead!On top of that, the romance. Oh, the romance. It was the most egregious case of insta-love I've read maybe ever. Kyra was head over heels, we're-practically-planning-our-wedding in love with Austin one day, the next day--five years later for everyone else--she spots Austin's now 17 year old brother, Tyler, and gets all swoony. Within a week--a week!--they are using the L-word. It was insane. I kept wishing Derting would have just kept the same boyfriend and had them struggle with overcoming the age difference and missing years instead of switching one brother for another in such a short period of time but expecting the reader to buy in to a new supposed love. Kyra literally went from crazy in love with one to crazy in love with the other in five days without any downtime or real heartbreak.The aliens and mystery about why they took Kyra and then returned her, the others they have taken, and the changes wrought in these returned people is all very interesting and suspenseful. But there were so many frustrating things about THE TAKING that defy credulity. The aliens I buy, it's all the humans that are unbelievable in this book.
    • 4/5
      Imagine having a fight with your dad, a bright white light, waking up behind a dumpster and heading home thinking you were in so much trouble for being out all night only to find out its been 5 years since you have been seen and everyone you love has moved on with their life. Yeah, that is what happens to Kyra.Not only does a story like this need great world building to pull it off, but great characters are needed to make you believe in what they are selling. THE TAKING managed to have both. I am pretty sure I would have reacted exactly the same way that Kyra did to the bizarre new life that greets her when she walks back into her life. It was very easy to put myself in her shoes and feel what she was going through. One of my favorite characters besides Kyra, was Tyler. Could he be any more perfect? He was a kid when she disappeared but always had a crush on her and he stepped up to be her rock and confidant from the moment she stepped foot back into her life.This book was crazy! In a good way! Original, creepy, and intriguing all wrapped up in one great book. Just when you thought you were up to speed another twist is thrown in. THE TAKING starts out a bit slow but quickly picks up the pace. I was into it from page one and it never lost momentum for me. Book 2 was immediately put on my wishlist!* This book was provided free of charge from Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review.
    • 3/5
      Sixteen-year-old Kyra Agnew has a fight with her dad on the way home from a softball game, and insists he let her out of the car so she can walk the rest of the way. The next thing she knows, she wakes up behind a dumpster and it is five years later. She hasn’t aged a bit, but everyone around her has, and clearly time has passed for them even if it has not for her. Her boyfriend and best friend are off at college (and they are together now), her parents are divorced, her mom is remarried, and her dad seems to have gone off his rocker. Her only ally is her former boyfriend’s adorable younger brother, Tyler, who now looks a year older than Kyra, and who of course always had a crush on her. But Kyra’s "new" life is fraught with danger and mystery, nothing is what it seems to be, and except for Tyler, she doesn’t know who can be trusted.Discussion: I like Kimberly Derting, although this first book of a new series displays some of the same flaws as her "Body Finder" series, such as an unrealistically perfect boyfriend. In addition, the science fiction/paranormal aspects are dangerously close to being over the top. Yet, in spite of these recurrent shortcomings, Derting has a talent for building suspense into the action that keeps you turning the pages. She also does a good job here of exploring Kyra’s emotions as she finds her whole life and even her identity turned upside down. Evaluation: This book has an interesting premise, and the author a challenging job to make her plot conceit believable enough to be scary rather than something that only causes eye-rolling. I am intrigued to see how she continues this story in future books.
    • 4/5
      Review courtesy of Dark Faerie TalesQuick & Dirty: The Taking is a pulse-racing, action packed story of a girl who doesn’t know what to believe. A stunning book and something I will definitely check out the sequel for!Opening Sentence: We killed them.The Review:Kyla is an ordinary girl, with ordinary parents and an ordinary life. She’s madly in love with her boyfriend, Austin, and she just won the championships for her softball team by her amazing pitching skills. Her father wants her to get a scholarship through softball, and go to a good college. All Kyla wants is to settle down with Austin and be at the same school as him — a school that isn’t nearly to her dad’s standards. But one day after Kyla and her father are fighting, a sudden bright flash of light illuminates everything and she wakes up, five years later, people saying she’s been missing for five years when really she just was knocked out or something for a few seconds — her whole life has fallen apart by now. Austin is dating her best friend, Cat. Her dad is drinking and spouting crackpot theories about aliens abducting her. Kyla’s mom remarried and has a new child. Everyone has aged but she looks the same as five years ago. Basically, she’s left in the ashes of what used to be her life. But Tyler, Austin’s brother, is always there to support her. He’s the only one she can trust, with the strange powers she seems to be gaining and agents from the NSA tracking her every move…Wow! Wow, wow, wow. I started this at about 4, took a 3 hour break for family movie night at 5, and then finished at 9. The first part was okay, and the chapters kept me hooked, but it wasn’t very exciting until you reach halfway. Then you are constantly gasping and praying and hoping and your feelings are set on fire.Kyla’s feelings of not belonging are so wonderfully illustrated. Always there is a constant undercurrent of how everything has changed. The Husband, her mom’s new child, her father’s smell of liquor on his breath, everything reminds her of the life she lost. Though the plotline could have proved very confusing, information is given to you in a crystal clear way.Tyler is a perfect guy — determined, cheesy, but believing and loyal. Austin had been a talker, but Tyler is a listener. Austin had forgotten Kyla for Cat, but Tyler still remembers his crush from five years ago. I think Kyla and Tyler’s relationship moved a slightest bit fast, but the pacing of the book as a whole was fine, and so it didn’t matter much to me. I loved Tyler, and while I appreciated Austin at the beginning, his interactions with Kyra after she is returned prove he is a first class jerk.I am so excited for the second book, I can’t even tell you. Again, the farther half of this book was basically perfection. The first half, good, but the second just had me enthralled. If the whole book had me as engaged as the second part, it would be an a thousand star review. Sadly, I’m only giving it four stars because part one would be three and part two six, so I’m averaging it out. Everyone who loves science fiction should check this out as soon as it is released. You. Will. Not. Regret. It.The Taking is an engaging, exciting, pulse-racing novel. If you can’t get through part one, fight through it (although part one is not bad at all, just not as good as the second). This is such a unique novel. The cover isn’t very exciting, but the content is great. Pacing is wonderful, romance is fabulous, story was told so well. Go now and pre-order it, okay? Okay. Happy reading!Notable Scene:But I stopped, unable to speak or think or breathe the moment I saw it……them.So very many of them.It was like looking at a constellation.A radiant, sparkling, living constellation.“Oh my god…” I covered my mouth with both hands and gasped between my fingers. Tears blurred the lights, blending and distorting them until they were one giant mass in my eyes. “They’re so . . . so beautiful.”Simon looked at me, confused. He lowered the knife and let go of his sleeve as he turned to see what I had. To know what I knew.That we’d been in the wrong place all along.“Fireflies.” He breathed.FTC Advisory: HarperTeen provided me with a copy of The Taking. No goody bags, sponsorships, “material connections,” or bribes were exchanged for my review
    • 4/5
      Thanks to Edelweiss and HarperTeen for allowing me access to this.

      What would you do if you woke up and found that 5 years had passed while you slept?

      While not the most plausible story, it was intriguing. I'm not sure how I feel about her switching her romantic feelings from one brother to the other, but it mostly seemed to work. I think this is a great new read for older fans of The Body Finder series and for those who love a good conspiracy.
    • 3/5
      I liked the feel of the writing in this book, but didn't appreciate the plotting as much (I need "light" reading these days, and have great appreciation that there are a great selection of such flavors on my bookshelf right now). The development of the protagonist was pretty good, actually... She is quite the brat at the beginning, but as the book goes along she changes, which is very nice to see.

      The way this book ended is pretty much unforgivable, however, even for light reading. I wouldn't have read it if I'd known.
    • 4/5
      I wanted to read Kimberly Derting because I have heard a lot about her previous series but the whole necromancer thing wasn't for me. But when I heard about a memory loss and the mystery of how she lost five years but didn't age, it really intrigued me. I was lucky enough to be approved to review on netgalley. I connected with Kyra right away because she just seemed like a normal person. Given, she is a great pitcher and I am not athletic but its like living that dream without actually doing it. She is arguing with her dad when she sees a bright light and then the next thing she knows she wakes and everyone else has aged five years and moved on, but she doesn't realize what happens. There was a nice hint at romance in the beginning, but they are thrown for a loop when she is five years younger all of the sudden and he is in college... It is an awkward situation with her and Austin especially since they were friends forever and then romantic and living across the street she also knew his family. The romance that developed five years later was a surprise in some aspects because of who it was, but I loved how it developed. Their conversations, his romantic gestures--drawings, texts, convos, etc. The world building was pretty good, and although I was still left with questions, it was something that Kyra didn't know or even her dad who had been doing research the whole time she was gone. I am hoping that the next books will give more enlightenment on what the purpose of the Takings are and the technicallities of who gets returned and who doesn't. I did like the slow unfolding of Kyra and how she'd changed. I appreciated how Tyler believed her and that he cared for her all the same. There were some pretty big twists in this, but looking back it was foreshadowed all along. It was pretty heartbreaking but I guess also necessary, although I'll admit I was thinking that Kyra would play a bigger role, but it makes sense for continuing on that it happened the way it was written. The ending left me wanting more and wishing that I already had the next book. It semi wrapped things up, but it still left at a pretty dramatic moment, though it did give me some hope and a bit of lasting power until I can get the next one.Bottom Line: Great premise, main character with a sweet romance.
    • 4/5
      Imagine having a fight with your dad while he's driving you home and getting out of the car in a rage. Then, a flash of blinding light knocks you unconscious, and when you awaken, behind a dumpster dressed in the same thing you were wearing while arguing with your dad, and make your way home, you discover that five full years have passed. Five years where everyone grew older, including your boyfriend, except you. That's the situation 16 year old Kyra Agnew finds herself in when the story begins. She has no idea where those five years have gone, or what happened to her during that time, but she's back, and has to try to make sense of everything she's now experiencing, including facing the fact that her boyfriend has moved on.
    • 3/5
      Kyra Agnew is on top of the world. Her future is bright. She has a wonderful boyfriend, a loyal best friend, and a loving family. She excels at softball and will surely get a sports scholarship to college. On the way home from a game, she argues with her father and gets out of the car to walk home in a huff. The last thing she remembers is a flash of light before waking up laying in the parking lot of a gas station. Five years have passed and Kyra has no memory of where she was. Her whole life has changed. Her parents split up. Her mother remarried and had a child. Her father is a drunken mess obsessed with alien abductions. Her boyfriend moved on to be with her best friend. Alone and adrift in a world she no longer recognizes, Kyra's only comfort is Tyler, her ex-boyfriend's little brother, who supports her every step of the way. Together, they try to figure out what really happened to her. The Taking has a concept that is quite popular this year. I haven't seen any of these shows, so the concept is fresh and interesting to me. I felt a lot of sympathy of Kyra because her world was turned upside down. Sure, her initial appearance where she acted kind of bratty and annoying wasn't a great impression, but that's how teenagers act. They're impulsive and don't look at the long term. When she returns, she copes with the situation as best as she can. The relationship with Tyler started really fast and was really based on nothing. It's another case of instalove, but it was at least sweet. Tyler is a little too perfect though. Characters have to have some flaws and he's like a teenage girl's ultimate fantasy. The romance also took precedence over the more important issue of where she was for five whole years. It takes a while for anything real to happen because of the focus on romance.The concept that Kyra hadn't aged in 5 years was intriguing. Her new abilities were interesting, but it seemed very Mary Sue-ish that she had the most special powers of all the returned. I wish more information could have been found out about the process and the aliens, who weren't in the story at all. Why would aliens want to do this to us? What's the purpose of the experimentation? The ending was too convenient and really took me out of the story. I'm not interested in continuing the series.
    • 4/5
      This book is GREAT! Really wraps you into it. I usually am not a big fan on non-fiction aleinish books but this one had all sorts of surprises that totally throws you off guard. L-L-Loveee it!
    • 5/5
      The books are totally deserving. I loved them, and I think they are must read. If you have some great stories like this one, you can publish it on Novel Star, just submit your story to hardy@novelstar.top or joye@novelstar.top
    • 5/5
      Loved this book!!
    • 4/5
      I like that the concept is different. It makes reading the story enjoyable, because it's not predictable.
    • 5/5
      I LOVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IT.
    • 5/5
      really entertaining!! i loved it.great read! couldn't stop reading it even at 2am
    • 5/5
      really interesting loved it
    • 2/5
      Meh. That is all.

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    The Taking - Kimberly Derting

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