Dark Visions by L. J. Smith

Kaitlyn is a smalltown girl regarded as a witch because she has strangely colored eyes and creates weird, prophetic illustrations, until she receives a scholarship from the Zetes Institute to study with other psychic teens. Specifically Anna, a First Nations girl who…talks to animals (I was going to say “Oh L.J. Smith…” and then I tried to remember a single YA I read as a teen with a First Nations character where the book wasn’t “Lookit Me Being Progressive And Writing About The Oppressed. Usually with a white kid edjumacating hir!” Which, granted, is still “Oh, L. J. Smith…”) Lewis, who is telekinetic, Rob, who is Pure and heals people, and Gabriel, who is the Angsty Bad Boy With A Dark Past and is a psychic vampire.

Guess who Kaitlyn’s love interests are. Go on, guess.

Anyway, the folks running Zetes are, naturally Evil and I seem to recall reading a lot of books as a teen about psychic teens on the run from evil institutes, but that didn’t make this any less fun, especially once it starts randomly inserting mythology references for kicks. I probably shouldn’t have read it right after Forbidden Game, though, because I kept thinking that, while it really was technically better, it wasn’t as fun, and the story type wasn’t based on a mythic metanarrative that I’m very attached to.

( I did have problems with the end though. )