Allie Carmichael has always believed life is simple.
You're born. You live. You die.
She has no cause to believe those rules don't apply to her.
All her life, Allie has suffered in silence as those around her shrink from her touch, too intimidated to take the time to get to know her. It's left her feeling like a pariah for fifteen years.
When an unexpected move to Kelleys Island brings Aidan McBrien crashing into her life, Allie is thrown by his reaction. He isn't affected by her touch. He doesn't stutter or make a quick exit. He smiles and welcomes her into his circle of friends.
For the first time ever, Allie knows what true friendship means. Finally, she has a real shot at normal--until "normal" crashes and burns when she wakes in agony on her sixteenth birthday. Aidan calls it her Awakening, a rite of passage he and their friends have all faced. Allie struggles in ignorance through the experience, uncertain of what is real and what isn't. When she emerges, she is different. She has always been different, but even among her extraordinary friends, she and Aidan are special.
As Allie struggles to maintain her tenuous grasp on the power that threatens to overwhelm her, she worries she will lose herself in this strange new world of ancient Immortal beings.
A dangerous world where she will have to fight tooth and nail to defend the power and freedom that is her birthright.

 

 

 

I uprated this book because there is alot of potential built both in the plot and the cast but it needs a lot of development to expand the range in detail and personalities both in depth and intrigue. I do like the concept and I hope there will be revised versions with more life to it. Its still worth the read though if you haven't read it.

 

 The Ebook was listed for free during the posting of this review.

Melissa A. Craven

 

 

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I won The Awakening from a book blog that I follow. The Awakening by Melissa A. Craven is the first book in the Emerge series. We follow Allie and Aidan as they discover who and what they are. The character development and world building is exceptional. The only problem that I had with reading this book was the entire book is about Allie and Aidan's training. I found it to be boring and monotonous.

3.5 -4 stars. I liked most of the book but Meg was a big reason why this only got 3.5 stars. Her word choices bugged me to no end. One paragraph she was all proper, the next she was saying things like WTF?, What the heck and Ugh. In certain parts of the book if I hadn't been aware of who was narrating the book already I would have thought different paragraphs were from completely different characters. And the word fellow was way overused IMO. Another big thing for me was that the kids had been trained in battle (and if you've read the book you know they can hold their own) but for all of that the family didn't have a go bag? I know it's a minor detail but considering that Margo had essentially prepared them for what might happen in almost every other form I was surprised that Meg didn't find a closet full of supplies that they might need. The plot itself was great and the prologue sucked me in I just wished some of the finer details were smoother. I loved Maze and how protective he was. I also got a kick out of Evan. I already purchased the second book in the series so I'll start that in a few days.