January Reviews - Becoming by Raine Thomas

Synopsis:
Every three years, Amber Hopkins explodes. Okay, not a blown-to-smithereens explosion, but whatever it is always hurts like hell and leaves her life a shambles. She’s already worked her way through five foster placements, and she’s doing whatever she can to avoid getting blasted into a sixth.

As her eighteenth birthday approaches and she feels the strange and powerful energy building, disaster looms. When the inevitable explosion occurs, her life gets its biggest shakeup yet. She’ll not only learn how her fellow foster and best friend, Gabriel, really feels about her, but she’ll discover that she isn’t really without family.

To top it all off, she’ll finally find out why she’s having the power surges: she isn’t entirely human.

Amber must Become, transitioning to another plane of existence and risking the loss of the most important relationship she’s ever had. Her choice will impact the future of an entire race of beings, and will pit her against an enemy that will prey upon her doubt to try and take her very life.

Kind of makes the explosions now seem like a cakewalk.

Raine Thomas is the award-winning author of the exciting and original series of YA fantasy/romance novels about the Estilorian plane. She followed her life-long passion for all things literary and earned her bachelor's degree in English with a focus in Creative Writing from Georgia State University, then her master's degree in Humanities from Central Michigan University. Having grown up in places such as Chicago, Atlanta and Orlando, much of her writing reflects these settings.

Raine is a hopeless romantic with a background in the fields of mental health and wedding planning...two areas that intersect far more than one would think. Her years working with children and adolescents with emotional and behavioral challenges inspired her to create young protagonists who overcome their own conflicts. When she isn't writing or glued to e-mail or social networking sites, Raine can usually be found vacationing with her husband and daughter on one of Florida's beautiful beaches or crossing the border to visit with her Canadian friends and relatives.

Reviewer - Erika L.

Title/Author - Becoming by Raine Thomas

4 Stars

The Becoming is the first book to a trilogy. In this book Amber has been to many foster homes in her life because she was found as a newborn. She never could stay in a foster home for long because every three years she would have an outburst of some kind. After finally finding her way to Mrs. B’s home, she met Gaberiel- who is also a foster child that Mrs. B took in. Gaberiel helped Amber with her outbursts and they ended up falling in love with each other. For her birthday Gaberiel took Amber to Alaska. There they found out that Amber was the eldest of 2 other sisters (triplets). Come to find out her outburst was an outcome to her not being entirely human. She was half Elphresti. She couldn’t stay on Earth, and was forced to go to her home place with Sky, Olivia and Gaberiel. Gaberiel was not human either nor was he aware of it. On the new planet the sister found out they each had powers and obstacles.

I really loved this book. It was entertaining and out of the ordinary. In this book you were always wondering what was going to happen next and it always had a twist. The ending left you wanting to read the others to find out what happens next. I am planning on reading the other 2 books as soon as I can!

Purchase this book!
Amazon
Barnes and Nobles