Book response

       In the beginning of Don't Turn Around, two characters are introduced; Noa and Peter. Noa wakes up and is in a strange warehouse with an incision on her chest, and she doesn't know how she got there, it tells the story of how she escapes. Meanwhile, Peter hacks into his dad's computer and finds a file labeled "Project Persephone." He tries to hack into the website but then something terrifying happens. "The  question was, could anything Bob was involved with possibly be worth the time commitment?   
Probably not, Peter decided. With a yawn, he powered down the laptop.
 A minute later, his front door was kicked in."

       Noa escapes the warehouse and makes her way back into her neighborhood in Boston, where she tries to piece together what happened. She gets an anonymous email with a coded message about meeting somewhere to discuss 'a paper'. Ironically the email is from Peter and the characters are apparently soon going to meet face to face.

      As the story goes on, Noa continues to run from the men dressed as security guards and finally rents an apartment for a night where she hacks into the same website Peter did, to see what she could find. The files end up being about her, like I had suspected.                                                                                                    The Sci-Fi aspect of the book makes it difficult to relate to the characters. Noa is fostered and Peter is ignored by his parents, so the characters themselves can connect. For someone who has lived their entire life with both parents in the picture I can't  relate to the 'abandoned' or 'independent' aspects of the book.