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Cover Reveal - Tales from Parallel Worlds

Synopsis:

A collection of faerie tales and adventure stories from two worlds parallel to each other. One is a world filled with fae folk and monsters, and the other is place of clockwork and alchemy. Both are brimming with magic, mystery, and mortals who must find their places within.

Between the pages of these worlds, a boy learns his childhood friend is a dyrad, a lady must sneak away from her own ball to provide the cure to a plague-infected village, a siren has to solve a murder, and more.

Also includes an exclusive short story from the Howling Twenties series, involving the enchanted forest, a wedding day, and a blood moon.

Be swept away in tales of wonder- with all profit going to Polaris so girls and boys can have a chance to live their own faerie tales and adventures in freedom.

Author Bio:

Jes Drew is the author of the Ninja and Hunter trilogy, the Howling Twenty trilogy, the Kristian Clark saga, the Castaways trilogy, and The Dystopian Takeover trilogy. She read every fairy tale book she could get a hold of as a child, Captain America is her version of Prince Charming, and she’s pretty sure she's a mermaid.

Contact her at: author.jes.drew@gmail.com

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review 2015-01-30 21:27

Mind The Gap

Yzabel

(I got a copy through NetGalley, in exchange for an honest review.)

2.5 stars. It wasn't bad, but it didn't enthrall me as much as the blurb led me to expect. It contained its lot of good ideas (I've always had a fond spot for teleportation as a power, as well as for the Tube and underground trains, for some reason), while others felt muddled and confusing.

There's a prophecy, and several parties competing around it to seize the "Chosen One" in the middle of all this; but after a while I started to realise I didn't really know much about their motives, except for the most obvious ones, and it made for a plot that was at once complex yet underdeveloped. (One of the parties wanted to conquer, the other was striving for a certain being to come back to earth, the third and fourth one... I'm not exactly sure, in fact.) A few things were strange, too, such as the "bad guys" calling Darius "the boy"—he's a grown man, not a teenager, so "the young man", at the least, would have felt more justified. "Boy" just didn't cut it for me.

The characters in general would have deserved to be fleshed out more. And though the relationship between Darius and Viv was somewhat amusing (in a good way), thanks to their interactions, it developed a bit too fast to justify the whole "will go to every length to find you again". One event particularly put one character in extreme danger, as said character dove into a totally unknown situation with only a very basic plan, a.k.a "I'll let them capture me and we'll be together again".

I liked seing Egyptian mythology included, and alternate worlds. However the world-building never went far enough for me, remaining on a stereotypical level, whether it was Mas-Ra, the lands controlled by the Horus Alliance, the place where the third party came from, or even our own Earth, as the characters move so fast from one location to the other. In a way, the story was long without being long enough. Very, very strange.

The ending happened too fast, with a lot of people/beings appearing, then vanishing, all piling on the rest. The epilogue also felt out of place somehow. It's clearly here to introduce a second book, when this one seemed to be self-sufficient plot-wise.

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review 2014-01-15 11:31

Twirling Book Princess

The blurb and the cover were 2 things that pulled me into reading this book, sadly it wasn't really meant to be.

Why? Well let's see, Ruby, she was one of the biggest reasons why I didn't particularly like this book. I felt like I was reading a book about a science computer. Constantly she is sprouting science stuff. Even when she breathes she is sprouting that. : Also I found her a bit selfish. When she found out about the parallel worlds, how eager she was at times to just stay there, take the place of that time Ruby.
I also couldn't determine her age. It was mentioned she was 15 I believe, but at times she acted like 13, at other times she acted like 18.

Also the overload of string theory, science and quantum stuff just went well over my head, at times my head just hurt and I mostly skipped those parts. Really, parallel worlds is fun, but is all that science talk needed? This is the second book I have read the past few months about this topic and both had an overload of science/string theory stuff. No thank you! Can't we just keep it easy and fun?

And Kandy, God, she was just annoying and a big psycho (attacking people? Stealing stuff? Destroying property and stuff?). I really felt like the writer just had to have a cataclysm and made that Kandy, so that Ruby would run away and explore those parallel worlds.

I did love Ruby's mom, and also I liked the fact that this time instead of a door or window or mirror, it was a big old tree that was the portal to the other worlds. Really interesting and also explained the stories that were told about people trying to cut it down and who died or got hurt because of that.

In overall, I expected better. Let's hope that one day I will find a parallel world book without all the science and stuff.

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review 2013-12-13 16:02

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review SPOILER ALERT! 2013-10-08 09:14

It sounded so good. :(

Twirling Book Princess

This book was not what I expected. :

I expected: 2 mirrors, 2 parallel worlds, 2 girls and a switch, one gets stuck and needs to find a way back home before it is too late.

I got: 2 mirrors, 2 parallel worlds, 2 girls and a switch and a headache because of a whole poo pile of Quantum physics, time fabrics and more Physics and science.

Really dear lord, was all that necessary? A lot of the stuff just went right over, ok, right through my head like arrows. Nice and all, but I didn't understand most of it and I was kind of annoyed with it. I felt the book would have been good without all that stuff.

Also the whole instant love with the Nick in the parallel world, seriously? In the other dimension he dumped you, no even cheated on you! And you are still pining for him and drooling over him at every moment?

And seriously someone just got eaten???? And you are kissing and almost going to a few bases while there is a dead body (well if there is anything left) next to you?? WTF?

2 stars (though bordering on 1 star). -2 for Quantum Physics and all that poo, -1 for expectation shattering.

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