The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken is a young adult dystopian novel which tells the story of Ruby, a young survivor of the IAANS plague. IAANS killed off most of the children between the ages of about eight and fourteen and those who survived, like Ruby, are left with supernatural powers. This frightens the government who responds by placing them in “rehabilitation camps.” The Darkest Minds is about Ruby’s escape from such a camp and her search for a way to live a normal life. What I liked Multi-layered characters. The people we meet in The Darkest Minds are generally neither wholly good nor wholly evil. There are a lot of shades of grey in the characters and it’s often difficult to tell whose side a person is on. Even those characters who are not, shall we say, altruistically concerned about Ruby’s welfare have good and believable motives for their actions. This adds a great deal of depth to the characters and a nice level of narrative tension. Even the mute Suzume has a real personality. Beautifully descriptive writing style. I immediately fell in love with Bracken’s way of writing. She has a wonderful way of describing things that made…