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Lilah Covington is a Golden among Goldens. She’s so Golden, in fact, that she’s Platinum – untouchable. Everyone knows it, and that’s why everyone at Emory High wants to be like her. However, ever since her neighbors Lissy and Lexie James arrived in town, weird things have been happening. Lilah is willing to believe that Lissy and Lexie have unexplainable powers, but why is she starting to have visions? More importantly, who is the hot boy that only she can see? And why do her visions of him always show someone dying?
Barnes’ Platinum picks up where Golden left off. Lissy, Lexie and the rest of the characters from Golden are still here, just shown from Lilah’s point of view. Lilah has to enlist the help of the James sisters to help decipher her visions. Meanwhile, she’s also fighting to stay at the top of the Golden pack and has to contend with her best friend trying to steal her boyfriend. Needless to say, there’s a lot going on in this book, but the story moves quickly and Barnes does a really good job of keeping the reader engaged and interested in the story.
The mystery of the visions is twofold: what do they mean, and why does Lilah have them. While the fist part of the mystery is explained well – and makes for most of the action in the last quarter of the book – the second part of the mystery is not explained nearly as well. While Barnes does give a definitive reason for why Lilah has the visions, this reason only spawns more questions. Perhaps this was her attempt to set up for another book in the series, though that seems unlikely. These two books seem to wrap up the storyline nicely.
Barnes’ next books (The Squad and Killer Spirit) start a new series about cheerleading spies. They will be released in February 2008.
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