Series: Creatures of Chaos #1
Publisher: Blossom Spring Publishing
Publication Date: January 1, 2023
Pages: 165
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Review:
About the Book:
Life in Justice-Peace just got a little more interesting.
Casey Allen has a green thumb. Max Kinkaid is the high school football star. Debbie’s in a band. Parker is a serial-dater, and Finch is the science- whiz turned prankster. When these unlikely friends are forced to collaborate on a group project, they discover their talents go beyond their high school personas.
Casey can call the plants, growing and twisting them to her satisfaction. Nicholas Finch commands the animals, and Parker Watts can summon the fiercest of storms. Max Kinkaid has dominion over the four winds, and Debbie Fairfield can rock your world, literally!
Are these five an evolved species of human or the legacies of the gods?
Hunted by greedy scientists, these clever teens combine their extraordinary gifts to gain their freedom...but it will cost them the only lives they’ve ever known!
Rating:
This was a fast-paced, short novella about teens who learn that they have powers. Everything starts off innocently enough with all the students going about their days, in different friend groups, but it all changes when they are placed together for a project and realize that they are all experiencing some weird things. We follow Casey, a girl that has the ability to help things and make them grow. She doesn't understand when is happening to her and doesn't even realize that she has a power at first.
Since this book was a novella, everything happens very quickly. You learn about the characters right off and their relationships. They are placed together to write about nymphs and Casey realizes that there might be something more to their grouping. There were a few times that the 5 characters got a little confused for me becuase the author alternated between first and last names and it is such a short learning time. The overall plot was interesting, teens with cool powers. It was exciting and the conflict was there, both with them learning about themselves, each other, as well as the conflict with a scientist too.
I would have loved for this to be longer format for more of this storytelling, I wanted to know more about these powers, about the characters, and about the bad-guy. I felt like it left something to be desired because it was so short. I think that novellas are wonderful to have a taste of what an author can do. I hope that this one writes more longer form to really flesh out her plots and characters - I think that would be wonderful.
If you are looking for a short, action-packed, young adult novella, this is a fun one.
About the Author
Ashley Brandt is a Paramedic and an author living in North Texas. When she isn't reading or writing, Ashley enjoys hiking, swimming and photography. Ashley is a coffee addict and spends as much time at the bookstore as possible.
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