The Boy makes her totally lovesick and icky and she might as well be a doll that needs protection and can’t process logical thoughts and is a serious pain in the butt to drag around. That is, until she meets The Boy – then the “functioning” part just disappears.

I was just expecting a normal geeky heroine, but Digit’s actually pretty way out there.īut other than all her uniqueness, Digit acts much like a normal functioning teenage girl trying to survive school and family stuff. (Unique name, smart girl pretending to be not-so-smart, girl clique… Mean Girls, anyone?)ĭigit’s “gift” is more like an OCD-related symptom since she starts feeling funky if a tile on the ceiling is out of place, and she has to keep thinking about perfect circles and symmetrical trees to snap out of it. Discussionĭigit exudes teenage uniqueness: her room is plastered wall-to-wall with bumper stickers, she can spot a reverse Fibonacci sequence in a second, and she’s named after one of Charlie’s Angels. The FBI fakes her kidnapping and sticks her with a cute and smart male FBI agent (guess what happens?), and it’s up to the two of them to catch the terrorists and save the world. However, when Digit accidentally decodes a seemingly-random string of numbers that appears on TV preceding a terrorist attack, she becomes a target for the terrorist group. Her SAT scores are kept in a locked cabinet at school, and she’s going to MIT next year, but as of right now she just wants to abandon her nerdy nickname and be a regular teenager. Seventeen-year-old Farrah “Digit” Higgins is trying to fit in with the popular crowd in school by pretending to be dumb and hiding her gift (or disability) of finding patterns in everything she sees and organizing data automatically in her head. Category: ( Young Adult) Contemporary Romance / Mystery Introduction

Double digit by annabel monaghan