One of my favorite books I just read is called Mind Readers by Lori Brighton. It is about a girl who thinks herself a freak because she has the ability to read minds. In her own eyes the only two people who can is her grandmother and her. Her grandmother controls and makes sure she doesn't tell anyone what she can do. Her grandmother keeps from her that there are others like her, but she finds out from someone named Lewis. She likes this guy but doesn't trust him at first until she realizes that he truly understands her---He is a mind reader too. He was sent by the director of the Mind Reader Society to bring her there so she can be protected and learn more about her ability.
As I read the story between the two, there is somewhat a chemistry between the two until she finds out that there is more to this society than meets the eye. She starts to lose her trust in him and anyone else at that place when she finds out that they were using her. He even told her that he is able to affect her emotions when it comes to love. In other words, he can cause her to fall in love with him. Aaron the director, use her to penetrate into a man's thought-- the man being a member of group called Society for Paranormal investigation. This is the group that wants to use them for their purposes and give them no freedom. After Cameron realizes what she had done and finding out what else Aaron has done, she makes a choice: She must leave the island and go back to her grandmother but not without consequences. Aaron prepares to erase all memory from her of them and that place.
A part of me wishes she would stay. She finds a guy she falls in love with and even though she didn't feel safe anymore, she could have trusted them. I ask myself, would I have done the same thing if I was her? Would I leave the place and go back to where I was, not remembering everything that has happened? Yes, I know it is only fiction, but it would be nice to know how it would turn out otherwise.
The book ends when she is working in her grandmother's beach cafe. Her life is better. What she has experienced after her memory being erased, she calls an illness. She just 18 and her grandmother got her a Vispa. Suddenly someone vaguely familiar comes to her and says the same thing that Lewis said to her months ago: "I was sent to protect you." This is from the same guy who Aaron wanted her to get into his thoughts. The same guy who works for the SPI except only this time, he tells her that her father sent him. This confuses her because what she knows is that he is dead. The last words in the book is what he said "I am pretty much the only thing between you and death." Lori has another book out which I think is a sequel to that book called Mind Thieves. Can't wait to read it.
