The Predicteds by Christine Seifert follows Daphne who has just moved to Quiet Oklahoma. On her first day at the new school she is involved in a school shooting where she is saved by Jesse who shoves her in a cabinet and disables the attacker. Soon after the attack rumblings happen in the town that his behavior was "predicted". Daphne soon finds out that her mother was the creator of a program that was given to students in the town that could predict if a teen will commit an act of violence, abuse drugs or become a teen parent. The names of the students that are predicted will soon come out and rock the small town.
This book had a very original premise. I initially thought that it would be a dystopian novel but it was more of a contemporary novel with an added twist and the majority of the book read like a regular contemporary novel with a bit of a romance and mystery. The book had some major problems that were mostly character related. While Daphne was fleshed out fairly well everyone else was like a caricature of popular high school kids and while Daphne seems to want nothing to do with these popular kids they keep pushing and pushing into her life (while also warning her that she could do things that would make her unpopular). I think if Daphne's social situation had been a little different and she'd had anyone that she could confide in (and that she didn't feel superior to) it would have made it easier to relate to her and it would have made for a better read.
Appropriateness: There was quite a bit of drinking, lots of gossipy sex talk and an attempted rape (which doesn't get very far and is not traumatic). The characters are all older high schoolers and act their age. I would recommend this book for teens 14+
