Published: July 11, 2012
Words: 78,094 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781908340047

Short description

With his memories wiped, Michael escapes a man called Carter and finds himself among a gang of teenagers with special powers. The Perceivers, as they call themselves, live in fear of adults who aim to take their powers away using ‘the cure’. As Michael joins their struggle to survive, he uncovers a conspiracy that runs to the heart of government and reveals the shocking truth about his own past.

Extended description

On the run and without his memories, Michael escapes from a man called Carter onto the unfamiliar streets of London. There, he meets a gang of teenagers with the power to sense the thoughts and feelings of others. They live in fear of ‘the cure’, a mysterious process which takes away their power and, some believe, destroys their personality. Suspecting the cure caused his memory loss, Michael goes undercover to investigate the truth behind the doctors of the cure clinic. What he discovers leads him to a conspiracy that runs to the heart of government and reveals the shocking reality of his own past.

Mind Secrets is a compelling thriller set in a contemporary world and will appeal to readers of the Chaos Walking trilogy by Patrick Ness and anyone who's ever wondered what it's like to have mind powers.

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powers urban fantasy ya mind london telepathy teenagers

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Chris Reynolds talks Mind Secrets
In a quick-cutting, dynamic trailer, Chris Reynolds outlines Mind Secrets - a novel about teenagers with special powers fighting to exist in a world that doesn't want them.

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Review by: Gerald M. Weinberg on July 11, 2012 :
Mind Secrets is a novel in the best of all science fiction traditions. It makes one contrary-to-today's-science assumption and then shows us the consequences. I love such stories in general, and I love this one in particular.

The contrary-to-today assumption is mind-reading—of a sort. It's begun to spring up among teenagers, much to the chagrin of the graybeards. In the book, the conflict is played out on the full London stage, but especially in the life of Michael, who wakes up at the start of the story with his memory wiped, while he's being pursued by a big man with evil intentions.

Without a memory of his own life, Michael is at considerable disadvantage in the chase, but he manages to escape, live on the streets, and eventually wind up living with a couple of "Perceivers"—that is, mind-readers. From then on, his life is an ongoing series of pursuits, captures, escapes, and more pursuits. Through all these adventures, he manages to assemble parts of his jigsaw-puzzle past.

But all his new knowledge does is create more trouble, culminating in an all-out war between the Perceivers and the Norms. As for the book's reading appeal, I literally couldn't put it down—and not just because of the non-stop pursuit. Author Chris Reynolds provides plenty of deep stuff for the reader to ponder. Will the world really be like this when a minority of the population can read the thoughts of the majority?
(reviewed the day of purchase)

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