The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken joins the many young adult dystopian trilogies. The story follows Ruby who has spent the last six years in a detention camp that closely resembles Auschwitz. The entire book reads like a thinly veiled allusion to the Holocaust except it's set in America and the people are teens and younger with different types of powers (coercion, pyrokinesis, telekinesis, to name a few). I liked this book overall. I think Bracken drags out the mystery of what happened to Ruby out a little too far. It's also a little bit too long for what actually happens in the novel. I definitely wasn't a fan of the end, but it's the first book in a trilogy, so I'm hoping my problems with it will be solved in the next two books. Overall, Bracken does a good job of creating likable characters. It's easy to get into the story because of the characters. The plot may have a few holes, but the relationships between the characters are a driving ...