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My Review:Title: First World (Walker Saga, #1)
Author: Jaymin Eve, Eva Kaminsky
Series: Walker SAga #1
Published by: Indie
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Format: Kindle Book
Pages: 356
Genres: Dystopian, Action and Adventure
Reading Challenges: CC's Goodreads Reading Challenge
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My rating:
Blurb:A paranormal romance series. An epic journey. If the Seventine are released, will anyone survive?
Abigail Swish might not love her life, living in gang-ridden New York in 2035 and training to fight and survive with Compound 23. But she is grateful for a few things, especially her no-filter-between-brain-and-mouth best friend Lucy and her escape each night into a dream world far different from her own.
In fact, sometimes she lives for the fleeting moments she spends at night with the man who fuels every romantic fantasy she’s ever had. But each morning reality returns. She could just cry. But she won’t of course; tears don’t change a damn thing.
Then without any warning, a month before her eighteenth birthday, everything does change. A guardian finds her. He explains, in a strangely familiar accent, that she was stashed on Earth for safekeeping and has been lost to her family ever since. And it is time to return home. To the First World; a land of unimagined beauty.
Abigail and Lucy find themselves escaping New York, ending up on another planet and traversing through an unforgiving wilderness. Yeah, because that sort of thing just happens every day. Luckily an unexpected saviour arrives; the man from her dream-world. Brace is six-and-a-half feet of gorgeous perfectness, wrapped in an arrogance like no other. Unable to trust his assistance, and unsure which of her instincts to follow - kiss him or punch him in the mouth - Abigail eventually accepts his help to find her family.
And what a family. Enter Josian, her father; larger than life and apparently not even human. He is Walker, a planet-less race revered as gods, causing mischief and mayhem through-out this star-system. Unfortunately, there is no time for a cosy reunion, since no one explained that by returning to First World her half-Walker genetics would act as a catalyst setting forth a chain of events which could spell disaster for not only her existence but that of all worlds.
First World is book one in the Walker Saga, a seven-book paranormal fantasy series.
Spurn - A Walker Saga Book Two release date set for September 2013.
Favorite Quotes:
Even the rebels don’t particularly care about using people. They might not be as blatantly cruel and destructive, but I guess that perspective simply depends on whether you hold the power or are the victim.
Tumbling a few times, I ended up face down, my pack thrown to the side. I stayed like that for a moment of reflection – and to determine what was broken – something sure felt broken. My pride, I think.
This author is hit or miss with me, but I always find myself coming back to her to see if thngs have changed. At any rate this one was a miss for me. There was just a bit too much sarcasm and not enough seriousness for my tastes. The girls didn’t seem to care what was gonna happen to them and would make jokes a tthe weirdest times. The story doesn’t seem to really go anywhere either.
It moves so fast it was hard to take it all in before something else (seemed like fluff to me) happened. The plot was all over the place and very difficult to sift through. And the love story was so slow as to be non-existent. This author’s works are kinda all over the place story wise anyway.
Anyway, this one just didn’t keep my interest enough to care about the characters and want to know what happens to them, so I’m gonna stop reading it.
Darn, I think I have this one. Then again, you and I don’t always line up tastes wise, so perhaps it will still work for me.