The Otherwordlies

Fern is twelve. She has a twin brother named Sam, and an older brother. She hears voices, was able to talk to her dog when she was young, and she wears heavy sunglasses to protect her eyes from the light. She also has correctly predicted the weather for hundreds of days at a time.

She's also without any doubt a major outsider at her school. Her problems multiply when she somehow teleports from her seat in the class to a beach.

Lindsay is another girl at the school and she's also a supe (supernatural), but she turns on Fern, calling her a Blout, an evil supernatural.

Things go from bad to worse for Fern as she teleports to the top of a mountain in Disneyland, meets a vampire named Vlad (not Dracula, just someone using that name), is contacted by a supposedly good group of supernaturals, one of whom nearly causes her to be killed, and then finds she knows where a legendary stone of power is.

I thought the book is seriously damaged by the use of a character named Vlad, who, of course, turns out to be evil. No surprise at all, which makes the book's ending an anti-climax at best. The so-called “good” people are not above using evil means to push their own agenda, either. It simply ends up being a girl has special abilities and everyone wants to use her type of book, and that's just not that exciting.

Not a book I would recommend.

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