Seen by Lori Nelson – Review by Jennifer Gordon

Seen by Lori Nelson
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

A gripping sci-fi dystopian story which has an original storyline and some wonderful characters. Mouse, is nearly sixteen, at which age she is a legal adult. She works at a local newspaper as an intern, along with her older brother Meph who drives her around and protects her. Mouse’s aim is to write a news article that will get her hired once she graduates, and thinking she has the perfect story she heads to a dark alley to record. However, she wasn’t expecting to witness a member of her own family murdering a young girl. In disbelief Mouse hides the recording, but is then kidnapped, she learns from her captors that it was her father who arranged it as part of a ransom insurance scheme, and he doesn’t want her back. Following her rescue, she doesn’t trust anyone and is trying to get evidence of her story to her mentor at the newspaper. Her father meanwhile is trying to find Mouse in order to kill her before she can release the video which will ruin him. The descriptive narrative brought the dystopian setting and the individual characters vividly to life, making me feel immersed in the story. I loved Mouse and thought she was a great heroine and very relatable. The storyline had me hooked and the plot had plenty of twists and turns which kept me guessing as to the outcome of the story.

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