Book Review
Basic Details:
Book Title: Awakening
Subtitle: The Sensorians #1
Author:
Brigitte Morse-Starkenburg
Genre: Young Adult
Part of a series? Yes
Order in series: 1
Best read after earlier
books in series?
Available: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54268439-awakening
Overall
score:
I
scored this book 5/5
⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
Short
Summary of the book:
Eliza is a teenage girl navigating the trials
every teenager struggles with. However, she experiences everything more intensely
than her peers and was diagnosed with schizophrenia as a young child.
She lives alone with her mother. Her father
left when she was still very long.
Soon everything changes. Eliza finds her sensitivity
to outside impulses are part of the Sensorian’s make-up. She becomes part of a
new, hidden society and is tasked with finding her missing dad. Will Eliza cope
with being part of a very regimented society?
What
I liked about the book:
The book is action-filled, full of intrigue,
and has an underlying thread of love and care for each other. Sexual
attraction, is it just chemicals playing havoc, or is there more?
What
I didn’t like about the book:
I enjoyed the entire book.
My
favourite bits in the book:
How Eliza continues to be free-spirited and
doesn’t give up.
My
least favourite bits in the book:
The book was enjoyable in its entirety.
Any
further books in the series? Any more planned by this author?
This is the first book I’ve read by this
author.
What
books could this be compared to and why?
This is a young adult book, full of action,
intrigue, sexual tension, and care for each other.
Recommendation:
In
summary, I would recommend this book for the following readers:
|
Children |
No |
|
Young
Adult |
Yes |
|
Adult |
Yes |
If
you like young adult adventures, this
book may be the book for you.
I’m
certainly looking forward to reading more by this author.
Book
Description by Author:
Headstrong
Eliza always felt she experiences the world differently from everyone else, but
she never fully understood why. Her senses forever stood on edge, never totally
controlled by her prescribed medication.
When,
in a shock revelation, she finds out she possesses an extraordinary gift, Eliza
gets plunged into the secret world of the Sensorians. Her life will never be
the same again.
Trained
to control her gift by the arrogant, cocky but incredibly handsome Zack and his
alluring sister Zaphire, Eliza finds herself struggling to fit in with the
strict and darkly unorthodox methods of the Sensorian society. She begins to
wonder what she has let herself in for.
But,
before she can change her mind, she is embroiled in the thrilling hunt for her
estranged father Rick, who went missing from the Sensorian community under
suspicious circumstances. Her loyalty gets severely tested in finding out the
truth behind his disappearance, as all is not what it seems.
Do
the Sensorians have a hidden agenda?
Why
are they so desperate to find Rick?
What
do they exactly want from her?
Awakening
is the first book in the Sensorians Trilogy: A Young Adult Urban Fantasy which
combines the coming of age themes of self-discovery, love and exploring
sexuality, with a fantasy element based in the real world.
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the Author:
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