Altered

 

Altered by Jennifer Rush

Four boys have been biologically altered to create the "perfect" soldier, and they live in Anna's basement. For the last five years, Anna has been sneaking down into the basement to visit the boys that her dad, a scientist who works for the "Branch", has been studying. Curiously, once her dad finds out she knows about the boys, she is allowed to help him with this secretive experiment by drawing blood and running tests on them.

Anna has always been homeschooled and her whole life revolves around the boys,  Nick, Cas, Trev and Sam have become her only friends. When the Branch decides it is time to take them, Sam stages an escape and kills the agents who have been sent to bring them in and injures her father. Now Anna must decide if she is going to go on the run with them or stay behind with her dad.

I would give this book an average rating. I didn't feel like the characters really came alive. Anna was in love with Sam, but I'm not sure why because there was not very little interaction between them. And we didn't see too much of the other three boys and their personalities. The storyline started out fairly interesting, but there were too many inconsistencies. This is a series, and I will probably read the second one, just to see if it improves at all.