Virals is a light, breezy way for young readers to delve into the wonderful world of supernatural powers and murder. The novel follows 15-year-old Tory Brennan as she and her friends investigate a decades-old murder, while simultaneously  dealing with the impossible, yet true, supernatural changes to themselves. Our story centers around the slightly creepy, and definitely spooky, Loggerhead Island. Loggerhead Island (which isn’t a real place, I googled) is right off the coast of the always lovely Charleston, South Carolina. When the band of teens discovers something not quite right about the dealings on Loggerhead Island, they begin to investigate and discover a darker truth than they ever expected. But our story doesn’t end there! Loggerhead Island contains more than just scary ass monkeys and weird wolf-dogs; it also holds a new type of power that will infect the teens and change their lives forever (or at least for this book but forever sounds all cool and ominous).  Continue reading “Kathy Reichs and Brendan Reichs, Virals” →