Winter 2006 Review:

        The book Dusk takes place at a military base where they do experiments on animals and try to find ways to improve their soldiers. The main character is a young girl named Dusk and she is one of the experiments the military scientists happen to be working on. The military where looking for a way to improve their soldiers eye sight by giving them night vision. They where accomplish this by using a small amount of hawk DNA to inject it into the soldiers so there eyes would also have night vision too. They used this experiment first on Dusk and it work but they also failed. Yes she did have night vision but she also inherited other hawk like instincts. She ate mice, clawed at her skin and they had to inject her with chemicals often to clam her down other wise she screamed and screeched until someone gave her what she wanted. One of the workers during a meeting the scientist where having; went in side the lab where Dusk was because he heard the yelling and screaming. This was the first time he ever saw the room and all the experiments they were working on. When he left the room one of the rats got out of his cage and knocked some things over and caused the building to catch fire and burned down. Later in the story Dusk is stuck in a tough decision between saving a young boy or letting him get killed by the dogs. In the end, she did end up helping him. Dusk and Jay (the young boy) became close friends at the end of the story. Jay wanted Dusk to come with him and live with him and his father and they would take care of her but she wanted to be with the hawks. This book isn’t very realistic but it still is a good book for middle school students it really isn’t to interesting for juniors and seniors.

~ Raquel Chadman, grade 12, Trumbull Career and Technical Center

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