Elemental

By Jessica Erica Hahn

In these poems, Hahn takes the unsuspecting reader on a wild ride from the seedy pool halls of New Orleans to late-night punk summer revelries on Manhattan’s Lower East Side and back to a gentrified San Francisco while trying to make sense of so many friends dying so young, and more. Check it out. (From Jennifer Joseph's review in the SF Bay Guardian)

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jessica Erica Hahn
• Release date: Oct 30, 2010
• ISBN: 9781452398624

Jessica Erica Hahn

Jessica Erica Hahn lives in San Francisco, where she writes and raises three daughters. Please visit www.jessicaericahahn.com if you wish to read more of her writing.

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What Others are Saying about Elemental

Once in a while a poetry chapbook comes along where the passion just pours off the page in a rush of emotion, images rain down in a torrent, and the reader is compelled into a reading frenzy, bound to read the whole collection through just to find out how and if the deluge concludes. This book is one of those. It’s about wanderlust and living in the moment. In these ... solid poems, Hahn takes the unsuspecting reader on a wild ride from the seedy pool halls of New Orleans to late-night punk summer revelries on Manhattan’s Lower East Side and back to a gentrified San Francisco while trying to make sense of so many friends dying so young, and more. Check it out.

– Jennifer Joseph in The San Francisco Bay Guardian,

Vol. 34, No. 4, Oct 27-Nov. 2, 1999.

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Elemental

by

Jessica Erica Hahn

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Published by Jessica Erica Hahn at Smashwords

Copyright 2010 Jessica Erica Hahn.

Smashwords Edition ISBN 1-890054-03-8

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this manuscript is dedicated to

Josh Oppenheim

(1973-1997)

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.

—e.e. cummings

The woman’s place of power within

Reviews for Elemental

[booktwirps · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Eva and Luke attend an elite, private school in the Blueridge mountains. A school specifically for kids that possess powers to manipulate the four elements: earth, wind, fire and water. Luke is your typical, temperamental bad-boy type. He's an "Earth Elem" (the author's slang for being a master of earth elements), and one of the best in the school. Eva is his sworn enemy. She's an "Air Elem", soon-to-be class valedictorian, slightly awkward and classic overachiever. They've shared a common disdain for one another since their freshman year, and when you get the two of them together in a room, there's almost always some kind of confrontation.When the high council comes to them during their senior year, they are paired up on a top-secret mission to solve a centuries-old puzzle which will help them to retrieve the lux crystal, which gives the possessor the highest level of elemental abilities. Soon Eva and Luke have no choice but to work together as they find themselves pursued by a mysterious creature that seems to be draining the elements around school. Soon they escape to Italy and to uncover the mystery of the lux crystal, and attempt to thwart the secret society hell-beant on finding the crystal for their own use.I enjoyed this book, and a lot of that has to do with the fact that I wanted to be able to control the elements when I was younger. I used to fantasize about it all the time as a kid. I felt the story was told well, though sometimes it felt repetitive, and I felt the climax could have been a little stronger. I also felt the prose could have been smoother. It just didn't flow quite as well as I would have liked it to. The characters are well drawn, and relatable despite their fantastical abilities, which to me, is important. Overall it is an enjoyable read.