Don't Turn Around

Written by Michelle Gagnon

A book for readers in grades 9 and up reviewed by Jose

        

Michelle Gagnon’s Don’t Turn Around is about sixteen-year-old Noa Torson, who wakes up in a warehouse with little memory of what happened to her. On the same night she escapes from the warehouse, Peter Gregory discovers the AMRF corporation’s Persephone Project when he hacks into their database.

After teaming up with Peter, Noa hacks into AMRF’s database and discovers a file with her name in it. This causes her to become further entangled with Project Persephone alongside Peter as they try to understand its purpose.

I liked Don’t Turn Around because Noa’s story of trying to understand why she was taken is compelling. In the beginning of the book, the story alternates between Noa’s and Peter’s points of view, giving a nice contrast between the two and showing how they are entangled in Project Persephone. Overall, this book is worth reading if you like stories where the protagonist is trying to solve a mystery about themselves and the situation that they’re in.