Incognita

Gr 8 Up—In this action-driven but emotionally flat sequel to Tabula Rasa, Angel Ramos is in Manhattan, recovering from her escape from the secret research lab where the Velocius program was erasing her memories and imbuing her with superhuman abilities. With the help of her hacker boyfriend Thomas, she's determined to expose the truth about the research to the world and defeat the person behind it—her powerful and wealthy grandfather Erskine Claymore. It won't be easy. Angel has survived an attempted drowning and has been implicated in an attack on the police because her enemies mistakenly think that she and Thomas have valuable Velocius data. Tantalizing memories plague her as she tries to interpret puzzling clues implanted in her head by a sympathetic researcher. Angel, Thomas, and new acquaintance Mikey, a fellow Tabula Rasa victim, race against time to find an antidote to the drug that Mikey and Thomas were injected with before it completely destroys their memories. The narrative is reminiscent of a movie that's heavy on action but full of plot holes. The reason for the creation of Velocius is never satisfactorily explained. After undergoing her memory-altering ordeal, Angel has supposedly redeemed herself and become less selfish and manipulative, but she still seems quite unlikable.