Let me preface the review in saying, it's been a long time since I've gotten to the end of the novel and have literally screamed 'No' because it ended too soon. Animal Graph is set in an apocalyptic world where radiation has made a large perentage of humans mutatated and food sources scarce. One dictaraship/monarchy reigns, King Borran Khan who inherited the merged Americas from his father continues his father evil ideology. To strengthen his right to rule, Borran creates superhuman soldiers through the process of animal graphing. This process mixes the genes of animals indigenous to the Amazion jungle with that of humans. However, due to the infancy of this gene technology, Borran uses it only on a select few soldiers and premarily on criminals. This is how we meet our protagnise, Jin. She was imprisioned for stealing a loaf of bread to feed her brother and was selected for the Animal Graph program. After the graphing, criminal participants are released into the jungle and then they chased by graphed soldiers as a practice exercise. While on the run, Jin meets Adan, another graphed criminal and the two spend the next few days using their new found animal skills trying to elude capture. This novel is definitely more than what meets the eye, and its novel concepts will have you intrigued from start to finish. I truly cannot wait to see what happens in the next installment, and if Jin will be able to keep Jade, her jaguar like spirit animal.

A unique idea - which is what attracted me to the book in the first place. It's definitely solidly in the young adult genre, so if you don't love that genre, don't pick up the book. Technically well written, at a mostly decent pace. Some of the story tends to drag, and some of the flora/fauna mentioned that isn't explained outright is confusing to someone who isn't familiar with that area of South America. I would give a higher rating if I didn't have to stop and Google so many things.