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    Twisted: Deathwind Trilogy, #1
    Twisted: Deathwind Trilogy, #1
    Twisted: Deathwind Trilogy, #1
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    Twisted: Deathwind Trilogy, #1

    By Holly Hook

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    When 16 year old Allie goes on the trip of her life--storm chasing--she gets more than she ever bargained for. A supernatural experience leaves her changed forever, and when she gets home, she learns that she now bears a horrible curse. Every time a thunderstorm arrives, she is forced to turn into a tornado. Unable to control her actions and unable to hold the transformations back, she must find a way to get rid of her new affliction before she ends up killing someone--and that could end up being her parents, her neighbors, or her best friend, Tommy.

    Allie must return to the plains to find those who did this to her and to find a cure. She enters a world she never knew existed, where others share her curse. Unfortunately, it turns out Allie has some unique abilities of her own that others are willing to use for their own evil purposes, and soon she finds herself caught up in a struggle for the lives of hundreds. Allie's quest to save herself is only the start of her adventure.

    Twisted is the first book of the Deathwind Trilogy, a new teen paranormal romance series featuring some unique superpowers. The other two installments, Torn and Unleashed, are now available!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHolly Hook
    Release dateJan 20, 2015
    ISBN9781507018354
    Twisted: Deathwind Trilogy, #1
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    Holly Hook

    Holly Hook is the author of the five-book Destroyers Series, which is the prequel to the Deathwind Trilogy. She began writing at a very young age and published her first book for Kindle, Tempest, in September of 2011. Since then, Tempest (#1 Destroyers Series) has seen thousands of downloads and four sequels. The Deathwind Trilogy is a spin-off of the Destroyers Series, with three books planned.The author is currently working on the Timeless Trilogy, another YA fantasy series with a hint of science fiction, and has written a few short stories. She grew up with a fascination with natural disasters and weather, especially storms. She enjoys writing stories with a strong female lead and exploring concepts that have never been done before. Reading teen fiction and young adult books is another one of her biggest interests. She lives in Michigan with her two cats and an assortment of other pets.If you would like to subscribe to her mailing list for a free book, be sure to check out her blog at www.hollyannehook.wordpress.com and hit the big "subscribe" button or just go to the sign up page here: http://wordpress.us6.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=8696a40cb388cfc9f1421d292&id=2e2b7ac94dOther Titles By Holly Hook Include:Tempest (#1 Destroyers Series)Inferno (#2 Destroyers Series)Outbreak (#3 Destroyers Series)Frostbite (#4 Destroyers Series)Ancient (#5 Destroyers Series)The Destroyers Omnibus (All Five Books in One Bundle)Torn (#2 Deathwind Trilogy) Available Now2:20 (#1 Timeless Trilogy) Coming Soon in April of 201511:39 (#2 Timeless Trilogy) Coming Soon in April of 2015After These Messages (A Young Adult Comedy)Walls (A Teen Paranormal Short Story)Going Home (A Science Fiction Short Story)The Youngest Prince (A Short Story in the anthology Out of the Green)

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    • 4/5
      I received this book from LibraryThing in exchange for a review. Holly Hook's Deathwind trilogy is a great YA fantasy series based around a group of people called Outbreakers who turn into tornadoes. Full of action, mystery and suspense, it is a refreshing change from the vampire, zombie, dystopian genres that have been so prolific. I really enjoyed the first book - Twisted - and will try some of the other series she has written. ----------- ----------- ------------ -------------Allie is a teenager who loves storms and has saved for ages to go on a StormChaser trip with her uncle - unbeknownst to her parents! While on their trip they get caught in the middle of a twister and Allie is pulled out of the van. As if in a dream, she finds herself being carried to a barn, and having a tornado absorbed into her body. When she awakens she is being treated by medics and finds her uncle and their guide alive and well - or so she thinks. A few weeks later at home, another storm strikes close to her and she feels herself turn into a tornado, coming back to herself miles away from where she was. With the help of one of her best friends she decides to leave home to keep her family safe and find out what actually happened to her. They stumble onto a township full of a number of people called Outbreakers who are born with the same abilities she has gained. With the help of Dorian, the teenage boy who finds her, the three of them join forces to find the barn where Allie was changed - with results that shock her and shake her faith in her uncle.
    • 4/5
      Good YA fiction. The main character is turned into a changeling that can become a tornado and that begins the adventure. Well scripted and thought out, but definitely audience targeted. Teens and pre-teens would enjoy this coming of age adventure.
    • 2/5
      I received a copy from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

      I have mixed feelings about this book. On the one hand it's a YA paranormal with a fresh and unique idea. I liked seeing a Nebraska setting and the use of tornados. Very original in respect of how the tornado powers worked. Unfortunately I found the execution and the characters to be a little flat.

      On the one hand it was very fast paced. But I Didn't really feel much of a connection to the main character Allie. She was okay, faced with a very difficult power and an incomprehensible situation she tries to handle it the best she can. She finds others like her and wants answers and a cure to his power/curse. I don't want to go into too much detail over the plot and the villain and the curse/power as that would be too many big plot spoilers.

      It also seemed, to me at least, that there was also a lot of tell not show. This happened, that happened and on to the next disaster. As each twist happened the were a few times when I found it hard to suspend disbelief as a reader. Allie got whiny and annoying and while I was trying to be sympathetic towards her difficult situations each one got worse and I found myself getting less interested as the plot moved on.

      There were hints of a possible love triangle to emerge but I felt no connection between Allie and the boy she meets. And then there's her best friend Tommy who comes along to help. He was a pretty decent guy.

      And there were other times when the plot was quite good and the descriptions reasonably okay and the tension built in were pretty good.

      Over all there was something..that didn't really work for me. So thank you Netgalley for the chance to read this title, though I'm not sure this is a series I will be continuing.
    • 3/5
      I received this book through a LibraryThing Members Giveaway program in exchange for a fair and honest review.Despite the very interesting premise of this book (that of a young girl developing the ability to turn into a tornado when she encounters a storm), this book failed to grab me. It was a quick and easy read and well written but it was also bleak and short on humour. I didn't like the central character and found the unremitting moral dilemmas she faces as she deals with her new ability and with the circumstances of its creation wore thin quickly. The constant repetition of the murkiness of wrong and right and the difficulties of choosing between the greater good for a community or an individual made me feel as if I was in a philosophy class with a particularly humourless teacher facing that ongoing moral question of whether to save the fat guy on the bridge or push him over the rails to stop the train about to kill the railway track workers.
    • 3/5
      Allie loves tornadoes. So much that she convinces her Uncle to take her tornado chasing on vacation. She gets caught in a storm and has a terrifying experience. When she gets home, she has an even more terrifying experience--she seems to be causing storms. While trying to figure out what happened to her, she finds someone else like her, someone who might have the answers she needs.

      This book was really cool. The paranormal is common these days, but there's nothing at all common about Allie turning into a tornado.

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    • 2/5
      I received this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.Allie is a young woman who’s fascinated by storms and tornadoes. She travels to Nebraska from her hometown of Williams Town, Wisconsin, to tornado chase on a secret trip with her uncle. Unfortunately, she gets caught up in a tornado – and her life is irrevocably changed. When she wakes up, she has the power to transform into a tornado, but she can’t control it. She returns to Nebraska to get answers, and instead becomes a pawn in a battle of wills.The premise of this book is really interesting – it’s a young adult paranormal that focuses on tornadoes, rather than vampires, werewolves, shapeshifters, and so on. It definitely brings a fresh perspective to the genre. It also takes place in the midwest, which is refreshing, as a transplanted midwestern reader. Midwestern culture and characters are vastly underrepresented in literature.Unfortunately, the engaging plot fails utterly in its execution. The source of the conflict is revealed, but the author doesn’t reveal enough of the “why” of how it all began to make it possible for this reader to suspend disbelief. As a result, a lot of the actions and consequences seem haphazardly constructed and there are holes everywhere.That’s not the most frustrating part for me, though. In a well-written book, I can overlook that if the characters are engaging enough, but they weren’t. The characters all had the same voice and none of them (including our protagonist) seemed to experience any changes throughout the course of the story. The story was them reacting to things that happened to them – there was no agency and no insight or personal development on the part of any of the characters. The characters were essentially the same people at the end as they were at the beginning. The one light in all this is Allie’s struggle in being forced to choose whether to be the bad guy for the greater good – but she whines about it for the whole book and doesn’t seem to grow through that struggle at all.Add to that a haphazardly thrown-together love triangle that was not developed at all, writing peppered with jarringly fragmented sentences the entire way through, and completely flat supporting characters, and you’ve got a recipe for boredom, if not the total disaster the characters themselves are trying to stave off. Two stars for originality – honestly, I think with some rewriting and a more elegant execution, the concept would be great – but I wouldn’t recommend this one.
    • 3/5
      Ah, yes. Another new year has arrived enabling the Choc-o-Lit Chick the opportunity to review, reflect, and resolve. But within hours I find rather imaginative ways to break those resolutions; for example, the ever-popular weight loss challenge is hosed by brushing the confetti off a swirled lollipop from last night’s New Year’s Eve party and finishing the sweet confection for breakfast. This is the method I employed upon approaching another YA supernatural title, Twisted, by Holly Hook. Thankfully, there was enough novelty in the story to keep my attention fixed.Ms. Hook employs many of the same techniques we find in the YA genre today: a plucky, young female protagonist; possesses a unique personality (she’s a thrill seeker!); two delectable young men vie for our heroine’s love! The novel begins immediately with Allie caught up, literally, in her first storm. Kudos to the author for sucking the reader into the vortex of the plot from page one. (Haha, get it? It’s punny!) Allie’s voice is quirky and realistic for a teen and her BFF/possible love #1, Tommy, also shows a lot of courage, shuttling Allie across the flat plains of Nebraska looking for answers. An interesting aspect of the storyline is the fact that Allie’s best gal pal is immediately cut from the action—don’t worry, she doesn’t die—only making a brief appearance at the end, therefore forgoing much of the drama one languishes through in reading many YA novels that are girl-centric.Once again, this is an entertaining YA read with a refreshing plot, but the author doesn’t spend enough time delving into the personalities and relationships between the characters, especially the main character. Allie is obviously close with her Uncle Cassius because…? Allie is consumed with storm chasing because…?There’s an immediate shift in Allie’s relationship with Tommy…he’s my BFF, wait, I think this Nebraska boy is hot, wait, I’ll make out with Tommy at the convenience store…wait, what? Despite these shortcomings, sitting down and licking through the pages of Twisted really was a good way to start my new year.
    • 3/5
      Twisted is written with the Young Adult reader in mind, and that is possibly it’s one saving grace. For an adult reader I can honestly say it didn’t gel.I like a good Dystopian novel but this just didn’t work for me, the premise was way to far fetched for me, as I like to believe something can happen tomorrow that’s not good. A Twister following you, then being being turned into one? yeah ok.The characters, though not believable, where well described so I was able to get a general feel for them. The locations where well enough described for me to be able to imagine what it was like. This was the one aspect of the story that I could truly believe in.The story is well paced and there are one or two examples of excitement that had me interested, briefly.As I’ve said, this isn’t great for an adult reader, a younger tween maybe would love it. Enjoy.NB I received the book free for an honest review
    • 3/5
      Twisted
      By Holly Hook
      ★☆.5

      I received a copy of this book from netgalley in exchange for an honest review

      Twisted is a very unique and different YA book
      Not your stereotypical vampire/werewolf romance novel.
      I really wanted to like this book, but unfortunately it
      Just didn't do it for me.

      First my cons
      Character development, first I didnt like any of the characters. Not a single one of them were interesting to me. Even Allie our main character was flat and had no life to her. I think I liked Tommy best and believe me thats not saying much.

      The execution of this book. At times there were way too many pointless details other times when you needed details there just werent enough. I was either bored or confused.

      Pros
      I like the idea of this novel. I like that it is different from your typical YA. It was new and refreshing


      I really wanted to like this book and I will try to read the next book. I feel sometimes authors have problems with the first book in a series because your introducing the concept, characters, and giving a backstory/story just trying to cram everything into 204 pages. So hopefully thats whats wrong with this book and book 2 will redeem itself

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