17-year-old Lila has two secrets she's prepared to take to the grave. The first is that she can move things just by looking at them. The second is that she's been in love with her brother's best friend, Alex, since forever. After a mugging exposes her unique ability, Lila decides to run to the only people she can trust - her brother and Alex. They live in Southern California where they work for a secret organisation called The Unit, and Lila discovers that the two of them are hunting down the men who murdered her mother five years before. And that they've found them. In a world where nothing and no one is quite as they seem, Lila quickly realises that she is not alone - there are others out there just like her - people with special powers -and her mother's killer is one of them.

Review.

Hunting Lila tells the story about 17-year-old Lila who has special powers which means she can move things just by looking at them. As the story goes on Lila realises that she can’t control her powers and finds out that nothing and no-one is as they seem, this leads her becoming a pawn in a dangerous game. Where she can only trust her brother and his best friend Alex who she has loved forever… This book was amazing, which had me completely gripped to every page. It was well written, and transported me straight into the story, with the author’s amount of description. I couldn’t put the book down. If you like an exciting read or a new thing Hunting Lila is definitely for you. It’s a book teenagers can relate to, this book relates to teenage experiences and feelings with romance. Everyone will enjoy it. This is definitely a must read.

By Siontai age 13.

About the author.

Author Sarah Alderson only started writing seriously in 2008, when she decided to give up her South London life and job in the not-for-profit sector to travel the world with her husband and young daughter in search of a new place to call home. After several months in India, Singapore, Australia and the US, they settled in Bali, where Sarah now spends her days writing by the pool. Hunting Lila is her first novel but she’s already finished the sequel and is currently working on a new book.