REVIEW: The Dysasters

By Denise @ Life With No Plot on June 24, 2024 • ( 0 )

About the Book

Title: The Dysasters

Authors: P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast

Series: none (technically)

Genre: YA Fantasy/Sci Fi

Pages: 308

Edition Read: Hardcover

Dates Read: May 20-24, 2024

Blurb: Foster Stewart knows she’s different. Her life has never been “normal.” Talking to plants and controlling cloud formations aren’t things most seventeen year olds are into. Tate “Nighthawk” Taylor is perfect. Star quarterback and all around dreamy boy next door he never thought about his “extra” abilities. What quarterback wouldn’t want night vision? That’s not weird, right? It’s cool!

But on the night of their first meeting a deadly tornado brings them together and awakens their true abilities – the power to control the element air. Unbeknown to Tate and Foster, they are the first in a group of teens that were genetically manipulated before birth to bond with the elements. Which truly sucks for Foster, as she has to face the fact that Dr. Rick Stewart, her beloved scientist father, betrayed her and now wants to use her and the others for his own nefarious world domination plot.

Foster and Tate must stop Dr. Stewart and his minions before he destroys their lives and the world.

Review

Sigh. I really wanted to like this book more than I did. I’ve read other books by these authors and really enjoyed them and had high hopes for this one, but it didn’t quite live up to expectations.

I think I got this book as part of a giveaway at some point. It’s been on my shelf for a really long time anyway. The premise sounds really interesting. Young teens who are able to control a certain element – for the two mains, it’s the element air, but we also eventually meet people who can control water, fire and earth. A mad scientist who is hellbent on controlling them all, leading to a chase across the country to find the others like them. So much potential, but it falls a bit flat.

The two main characters, Foster and Tate, were a bit flat. They were also inconsistent in their abilities. The whole premise is that they can control air, which they do by diverting a tornado and using air to be able to hover above ground. Things like that. But Foster can also do some sort of mind control? She calls it her “Jedi mind trick” and it’s never explained how she is able to do it. Tate has a few other things he can do as well that just don’t match up with the whole elemental concept.

The villains were a bit on the bland side as well. We don’t see them all that much, although one of the side minions at least seemed to be conflicted in what they were doing. That could have gone somewhere, but it didn’t really. The minion who seems to be one of the main ones, Eve, seems to also have a conscience but then goes right back to tracking down the heroes. Everything was a bit hot and cold, and that went for pretty much the whole story.

According to GoodReads, this was originally supposed to be the first book of a series, but after further research, it looks like this series has been discontinued. Honestly, I’m not surprised. Even if there were further books, I hate to say it, but I don’t think I would read them. I feel bad because I really do like these authors, but this one was a miss.

GoodReads rating: 2 stars