The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo for teens? Even though I wasn't exactly a fan of that one, this book with it's creepy cover and title drew me in like a moth to flame. Maybe I'm just really interested in cool people who are good with computers? Who knows.

Right off the start we meet Noa, the impressively skilled computer hacker waking up in a creepy warehouse with an IV in her arm and a giant scar on her chest. Cue awesome action of her breaking out and going on the run to try to find out what the heck happened to her.

And there we have Peter. Leader of a hacker alliance and spoiled rich boy. He goes digging into his fathers files and finds out about something mysterious group called AMRF... and he needs someone as skilled as Noa to help him. What neither of them know though is that Noa is really important to AMRF and they aren't exactly going to just leave her alone.

Wow, this book. It really starts off with action and was totally exciting! I immediately loved Noa and how smart and resourceful she was, and how she can really take care of herself. From being in and out of foster homes and then by herself most of her life, it's really had an effect on her abilities to handle things. Crying little damsel who needs her love triangle guys to save her? None here!

And Peter? Well... he was there. Okay I just wasn't a fan. I didn't get him and I thought he was kind of an idiot at some times.

Like for instance, he was supposed to be some awesome hacker guy. And yet how did the bad guys find him so quickly when he was snooping? I also didn't like how he was supposedly "charming" but didn't really see that even though it was said multiple times.

I also didn't feel the relationship between him and Noa. Yeah I get it that they ended up in this thing together but I didn't get exactly why they were subtlety into each other aside from them both suddenly noticing the other was attractive. Maybe we'll see more of that in a sequel. (But I love there was no insta-love!)

The thing here also, I wasn't aware that the whole thing would be about some medical experiments and the disease. Unless it's a zombie virus, I kind of zone out. Which makes me curious as to why The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was named dropped on the back and in the jacket. I really didn't think Noa was much like Lisbeth aside from the computer hacking skills and straight forward-ness. Also, the rest of this book was not similar at all to GwtDT.

Oh also! The techy stuff was not shyed away from while also not making me totally confused at what was going on so props for that!

Another thing, I normally do love the dual POVs. It's always nice to see different points from completely different people but ahhh. Not here! I didn't like Peter in the first place, I didn't want to see anything from his view. I just wanted to follow Noa and the excitement that was going with her. I felt like there was some disconnect between them as well. Any time that it switched back to Peter I just took a break from reading it. I finally did get used to him and didn't hate it as much until oh hello there Amanda! Why the freak did you just start getting a POV as well? How are you relevant to these things? I did sort of get the connection but still. It was the weirdest thing for her to come in literally half way through and get some pages after only being there briefly.

And yes, I didn't like Amanda that much either. She seemed like the kind of girl who would get up in my face for eating meat and then tell me that I suck at life because I don't spend 20 hours a day supported to a cause. (Taken, her cause was important and I admire that she was so behind it.) But if you call a guy "the one" after dumping your boyfriend hours earlier you automatically go to my list of "I hate you".

To the point of the plot and pacing. It was very interesting. I believe it did earn it's genre as a thriller! There was hardly a dull moment and there was so many questions that really needed answers. Why exactly does the disease PEMA kill only teenagers? Where does it come from? Where does AMRF come into play? How many people are really involved in this? Are the experiments that are going on really for a cure?

Will you get answers for those? Not in this one! But never fear, this is apparently part of a trilogy.

While Don't Turn Around probably wasn't my favorite book of all time, it is definitely worth the read.