Charged: Electric Series, #1
3/5
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About this ebook
Kat's just an average teenage girl. The new guy moves to town and she's shocked when she falls for the boy next door. With her best friend Brie, and new boyfriend Mason, life is looking better than ever.
When Brie and Kat land a gig for their band, excitement is in the air. But a cross of wires leaves Kat charged with electricity when her amp explodes.
And things just keep getting weirder...A sudden nanobot apocalypse leaves Kat's new talents as the only thing that stands between mankind and the end of the world.
Kat and her friends must travel cross country, and encounter many obstacles along their way. With half the country now gone, the other half is left divided. Kat has to decide if she's strong enough to help.
Casey Harvell
Casey Harvell is an up and coming indie author. She lives in the Hudson River Valley of New York State with her husband and their two sons. Casey is slightly zombie obsessed and known to use the word 'boom' frequently. She is currently hard at work on the sequels to her series and a couple of stand alone novels. Keep an eye out for Shocked early June 2014! Find out more on http://caseyharvell.com
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Reviews for Charged
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Note: This is based on the current Kindle copy that I have. This is the abbreviated version of my review.
Let me get started with the things this author did right:
1. Pacing–The pacing of the story coincided nicely with the conflict as well as downtimes. There wasn’t a part where I felt it was overly rushed to the point where I was lost or overly sluggish to the point where I pray it would speed up.
2. Conflict–The conflict was presented in a believable fashion and was in alignment with the development of the main character, Kat, as she tries to deal with having her new powers.
3. Endearing characters–There were plenty of characters (both main and supporting) that I found myself caring about:
(a) Baby Bear was my favorite
(b) Mason has admirable qualities that are equivalent to a sidekick or a superhero. He’s a talented artist, caring, and confident. He’s just an all around cool guy who is a welcome addition to any team–be it trying to save the world or be the boyfriend.
(c) Jared was a character I liked from the jump. However, I do think he got treated a bit unfairly during the narrative. Once everyone realized he wasn’t infected, it should not have taken the others so long to finally trust him.
Some things that could use some improvement:
One of Charged‘s biggest downfalls is the misspellings and incorrect usage of certain words. There were also a lot of uses of the word "I" and a multitude of dashes. Well over a hundred dashes, and unfortunately, the majority of them were used incorrectly. In some instances, the misspelling of words (“ass-sets”, “bear-hugs”, for example), and in other instances, used where there should be a colon, comma, or no punctuation whatsoever.
Shifting Tenses: There were many stretches where the tense shifted from present tense to past tense, sometimes within the same sentence.
Staccato-esque Resolution: Just when I was excited about the very last scene in the chapter, it cuts off in the middle of the action. I’d like a bit more tidiness in the resolution, despite recognizing that this is the first book in the series.
After careful deliberation, I award Charged 3 out of 5 Stars.
I think the author should take this work and present it for professional fine tuning and editing. The fact that such a promising story line has been executed in such a sloppy fashion is very disappointing–not just from a reader experience but also from an indie author experience. The characters are fascinating. The story is one I would be willing to follow to the end. Yet, it’s presentations like this which sap the magic out of this work.
**I’d gladly entertain an updated copy and would be willing to give the work another look, provided these faults are not only addressed but corrected.**