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★★★★★

“Secrets ”

written by Harriet Klausner on 18/09/2005

Secrets

F.M. McPherson

Medallion, Nov 2005, $9.99, 300 pp.

ISBN 1932815309



Mike Jaeger is an ordinary high school student, until one day he starts seeing and hearing things, voices from the Pack calling him to join them. His hair starts to grow all over his body, and he has retractable claws that come out when he is under stress or angry. His best friend Dave thinks he's schizophrenic, but the truth is more frightening than that.



Mike isn't human. He is part of the Pack, a hominid group of beings that have fought humans for over forty thousand years, in retaliation for what they did to the Pack-sister/mother. Mike's mother is not his biological mother, but a host for his father/brother's seed. He is a clone of his father, and has the genetic memory of all the Pack members that ever lived. His father Paul spent years trying to forget he was Pack, but Mike is not Paul, even though they are clones of one another. He needs to learn how to live in a human environment without giving in to his instincts to hunt humans, otherwise he will go insane. Dave anchors him to the real world, while Mike deals with the demons of his mind, that he fights to subdue.



This is a coming of age story, that is refreshingly different because Mike is Pack yet has human emotions. The bond between Mike and the human Dave is beautiful to behold, a friendship that is true and pure. The protagonist's father almost destroys his family because of his need to deny what he is. There are many lessons that young adults take away from SECRETS, but learning is easy because it is told in a fantasy context so as not to overwhelm the reader.

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