Prism

Written by Faye Kellerman

Narrated by Jenna Lamia

Kaida Hutchenson isn't exactly psyched for the class trip to Carlsbad Caverns. Fourteen hours in a van with preppy jock Zeke Anderson and high school loner Joy Tallon? No, thank you.

But when a tragic and explosive accident turns the journey into a nightmare, Kaida would give anything to be back on the road. Stumbling at midnight through the unforgiving desert, Kaida, Zeke, and Joy take refuge in an abandoned cave . . . until the world goes from pitch black to blinding. The next thing Kaida knows, she's back home in California and everything is just as it was. Or is it?

Now Kaida must band together with Zeke and Joy in hopes of making it back to the reality she remembers . . . and surviving the one she's fallen into.

New York Times-bestselling author Faye Kellerman teams up for the first time with her teen daughter Aliza Kellerman to deliver this breathlessly suspenseful paranormal thriller.

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Release date: Jun 23, 2009
• ISBN: 9780061902420

Faye Kellerman

Faye Kellerman lives with her husband, New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman, in Los Angeles, California, and Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Reviews for Prism

[sandraelaine · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

A novel for teens and adult. A paranormal thriller. Three teenagers on a school trip have a car accident, survive the accident only to find themselves in another world identical to their world, including parents, siblings, etc. with exception, no medicine exists and is actually outlawed. Medicine, doctors, hospital and medication are outlawed and punishable by jail or worse. People are sick and dying without medical intervention. It is forbidden to talk about sickness or medication. The three teenagers want to return to their own world however in order to do that, they need to recreate the accident that changed their world.

[wethereaders · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

This book keeps you thinking and looking for clues to the truth. Would be better without the foul language.

[tjsjohanna_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I liked the premise of this book - alternate worlds are always intriguing. But the execution didn't work for me. The way the main characters move between worlds, the fact that there are lots of people who have made this shift but it's been managed that no one really knows about it, even the difference between the two worlds. It was entertaining enough but not enough depth or reason for the story.

[ilana_weiss_3 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I love how this book is full of action and adventure. It's absolutely amazing and it's hard to even put the book down! I pretty much read it straight through and it was great!

[sativa_1 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

when i purchased this book i wasn't aware it was written for teenagers. the writing certainly reflects that.. the story wasn't very indepth unfortunately. i could tell that faye kellerman had a huge hand in helping her daughter write this novel, but it's unfortunate that she didn't go further and insist that aliza create more depth and dimension in her characters and plot. there were a lot of loose ends in the story, a lot of things that didn't go anywhere. i would possibly suggest this book to someone in their early teens, but it wouldn't be the first on my list.

[wyvernfriend · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Kadia Hutchenson goes on a school field trip, finds herself with the school jock Zeke Anderson and loner Joy Tallon and not with her best friend. When they're involved in an accident and while trying to get to safety they end up in a cave where a bright light flashes and they wake up at home. However it's a home that they don't remember, a home that they have issues with, there are subtle differences and those differences could kill them. Their biggest problem is getting back to the alternative world that they recognise.It's not a bad read, quite a quick read actually but it somehow didn't quite work for me.

[callmecayce · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

A short, interesting alternate universe fantasy novel. The Kellermans deliver a decent, if not great, story with moderately sympathetic characters. It was engaging enough that I had to finish because I needed to know what happened, but not deep enough that I thought long and hard about it. The premise is quite good and I'll be interested to see of the mother-daughter team writes more YA novels.