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Wednesday, February 26, 2014

February Reviews!


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.

Image of Raine Thomas

Raine Thomas is the award-winning author of bestselling Young Adult and New Adult fiction. Known for character-driven stories that inspire the imagination, Raine recently signed with multiple award-winning producer Chase Chenowith of Back Fence Productions to bring her popular Daughters of Saraqael trilogy to the big screen. She's a proud indie author who is living the dream.

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 young adults with emotional and behavioral challenges inspired her to create 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.

Title: Becoming, Daughters of Saroqael Trilogy, Book One
Author:  Raine Thomas
Reviewer: Carrie Carter

5 Stars

Every three years, something strange happens to Amber Hopkins and leaves her life a mess!  She has already been through five foster homes, and she is doing everything she can to prevent going to a sixth.  As her eighteenth birthday is getting closer, she can feel a surge of energy building up, getting stronger than all of the past surges.  When she finally explodes, her life gets the biggest twist ever.  She learns that her best friend and fellow foster, Gabriel, really has a feeling and she discovers that she is not a whole human.  You must read the book to find out more.

I really enjoyed this book; I am totally looking forward to reading the next books.  Raine Thomas really knows how to make you want more.  This book will make you laugh, smile, and almost make you cry.  I love it so much.

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