Science+Fiction

** By: Tara Bray Smith ** ** Kinzie Cooper ** Protagonist: Ondine, Nix, and Morgan Conflict: A cutter, Tim Bleeker, wants to extend his own changeling life and make a powerful cutter son. To do that he has to kill Nix, Morgan, and Moth to get their powers. If he kills them, Morgan, Moth, and Nix will not go through the exidis, but they will suffer forever. Summary: In Portland, Oregon there is three main characters: Ondine is a special girl. She has nice things, a nice home and a great family. Ondine is nice, stubborn, loving, head strong, and smart. She is the one who doesn't want to be a changeling, (which is what she is) but she wants to be normal. She is the most important changeling of them all, the most powerful. Morgan is close to perfect, great grades and great looks. On the inside though, she is rebellious and mysteriously evil. She is also a changeling, although she doesn't know if she wants to be on the bad or good side. Nix is the last changeling. He is from Alaska, but seeing how people would die shortly after he noticed a bright ring around them was what made him travel to Oregon. He then becomes homeless. Nix is a ringer, that means he sees a ring around people who will die, and he is able to move the ring to different people or himself. The three changelings' teacher advises them to go to a meeting called, "The Ring of Fire." (a meeting where new changelings discover their not human) They all realize they have one thing in common, they are not human. These teenager changelings will eventually go through an exidis and leave their human bodies. They all have a task to fulfill on earth. They need to destroy a cutter (the dark side of a changeling) Tim Bleeker from impregnating a girl named Neve and from collecting their own powers for his, "to be made child," by killing them. Tim Bleeker ends up getting Neve impregnated so he can also produce his powerful cutter child. At the end, Nix ends up saving everyone from being killed by Tim Bleeker, but he dies in the process. He is supposed to come back to his place as a ringer in the sequel of __Betwixt__. Morgan chooses the good side of a changeling. Ondine was held hostage by cutters in Chicago, and she escaped them and ended up accepting her place as one of the greatest changelings ever.
 * Betwixt **

I thought this book was interesting and I liked how it made you think. The one thing I didn't like about it was that the way it was written made it a little hard to follow.