Los Angeles, where lightning rarely strikes, is one of the few places Mia feels safe from her addiction. But when an earthquake devastates the city, her haven is transformed into a minefield of chaos and danger. The beaches become massive tent cities. Downtown is a crumbling wasteland, where a traveling party moves to a different empty building each night, the revelers drawn to the destruction by a force they cannot deny. Two warring cults rise to power, and both see Mia as the key to their opposing doomsday prophecies. They believe she has a connection to the freak electrical storm that caused the quake, and to the far more devastating storm that is yet to come.
Mia wants to trust the enigmatic and alluring Jeremy when he promises to protect her, but she fears he isn’t who he claims to be. In the end, the passion and power that brought them together could be their downfall. When the final disaster strikes, Mia must risk unleashing the full horror of her strength to save the people she loves, or lose everything
I'm really not sure how to review Struck. I liked the general idea (Mia being a 'lightning addict') but this wasn't talked about nearly enough and had a lot of religion in it, which I had read about in reviews but didn't think it would take up most of the book. I think it should have been mentioned in the blurb - I don't think I would have been so annoyed with it if it had been.
Struck was original - instead of a war, government taking over or global warming making the area dystopian, subjects I've seen a lot in YA dystopia, it was a storm that destroyed LA, and I have never read a book whose main character has similar 'powers' to Mia. These are what interested me in the book, but Struck consisted mainly of strange religious groups predicting the end of the world and trying to get Mia on their sides. I really wanted to find out more about Mia and the lightning, but it wasn't explained as much as I thought it would be.
I liked Mia more than I thought. I'm glad she wasn't the kind of main character who spent most of the book deciding which boy to be with. Main characters like that *really* annoy me >.>. I didn't get why she continued to be around and like Jeremy so much when she found out he had TRIED TO KILL HER and hung around her house all the time. In fact I didn't like Jeremy at all. The way Mia describes him as being good looking and smart kind of made me think that the author just wanted to put him in to be a 'perfect' boy character and added in romance to fit in with other YA books.
Struck was an ok book with a good concept, but I didn't like the romance and the amount of religion in it.
Rating: 2.5/5
Great books nive great topics.
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