Connected An Urban Fantasy YA Romance Book 1 eBook Kat Stiles
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Strange things are happening in Cannondale...
High school is hard enough for any teen between the cliques, new teachers, and mountains of homework each night. But super powers? Em just started her second year, and magical abilities are about as far from her mind as possible.
Struggling to balance the rigors of classes while figuring out her newfound abilities, Em realizes that she isn’t alone. Her best friend’s dreams start coming true, and the cutest boy in class can somehow hear the quietest whispers.
Just when Em thinks she might have it all under control, people start dying. Caught between a budding romance, a whirlwind of magic, and a telepathic serial killer, Em just hopes to make it out of high school alive.
Filled with first love, friendship, and cool super powers, Connected is a fun urban fantasy YA romance novel. Readers that devour paranormal urban fantasy and enjoy stories with teen paranormal psychics and other magical realism powers will appreciate Connected. Fans of Ally Carter, Martina McAtee, Rachel E Carter and Morgan Matson will love this fast-paced high school urban fantasy.
Connected An Urban Fantasy YA Romance Book 1 eBook Kat Stiles
Kudos to Kat Stiles for bringing multiculturalism to literature. She truly understands what the concept means. Check out this description of Roz, a major character in the story. “She didn’t even have to try to be beautiful. Her skin was a rich honey brown, a shade or two lighter than Dad’s mahogany complexion. She inherited her hair from her mother—bouncy, silky curls extended past her shoulders, jet black in color, but with a midnight blue sheen when the sun hit it right.” Roz is not only beautiful, but well-spoken, intelligent, and free from stereotypes. I love it.Oh, back to the novel, haha! “Connected” is a slick YA fantasy novel, a kind of literary X-Men with a healthy helping of beautiful teen love. Mmmm … I remember those days. “Connected” is well-written with well-developed characters. Stiles does a fantastic job with the first-person narrative here, giving the reader a strong, yet flawed heroine in Emily who knows what she wants and how to go about getting it. First narratives often fall prey, even in mega novels, to the wimpy, whiny wishy washy characterizations that make even the best stories tedious, not “Connected”.
Connected is an easy read, a must read, a page turner and highly recommended. It’s also completely unpredictable, something rare in contemporary literature. I’m definitely looking forward to book two. The descriptions are vivid, well-crafted, and set the scenes and moods well. Check it out. “She inherited my mother’s hair color, though she wore it even shorter—the style was a cross between a pixie and the result of sticking your finger in a wall socket that I liked to call, “The Angry Pixie.” Today, it looked flat and lifeless, boyish even. She wore a scowl, which I’d come to believe was her natural expression,” and “The sky was a mixture of muted purple and pink hues, as the sun set and reflected against the increasingly large storm clouds.”
Stiles gets it right as the dialogue is super-authentic especially between Roz, Emily, and Tommy, but I think it’s the masterful inner-dialogue we experience through Emily that defines her and makes her character come through solid. Stiles also does a good job of showing instead telling which brings the reading closer in. Finally I like how the powers are introduced soon, but subtly especially Tommy’s, no spoilers. Did you hear me?
One more diversity check: nurse Judy “Her long black hair was tied back, and from her warm complexion and slight accent, I guessed she was Hispanic,” and “One black haired boy who appeared Italian gazed wistfully at Roz and then looked away, his hands balling into fists.” Love this!
Five stars plus for connected.
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Connected An Urban Fantasy YA Romance Book 1 eBook Kat Stiles Reviews
Connected is story of a teenage girl who predictably goes through the usual adversity of being different. I didn't personally get picked on but I knew several kids where the transition from middle school to high school was extremely anxiety driven. Some kids immediately dropped friends who weren't cool or deemed to be childish. I liked the characters and felt there were descriptive of their age. Emily struggled with an embarrassing problem of excessively sweaty hands and it caused her to be very self critical. She tended to be shy, non-confrontational fade into the wall if possible. Her friend Roz, was the exact opposite, confident and not worried about others thoughts.
I liked the romance that developed between Tommy and Em. It allowed her to become more confident of her own value because Tommy liked her when she was wearing bulky clothes and no make up. The story line is somewhat predictable but I think that's okay based upon the age range for the readers. I also felt like some things should have been obvious to the characters but only have to recall conversations with my own 14 year old son to know they don't always notice the obvious. Overall, good read for tweens and teens who like science fiction and fantasy with a little mystery
I don’t read a lot of YA—or paranormal, but this book came up in an online reading group that I belong to and the cover caught my eye—I love the cover! Then I read the book summary and was intrigued. I don’t read a lot of paranormal either, but the powers described to these three teenagers caught my attention because I have a fascination with healing powers. As well, I have personally known a couple of people who claim to have dreams that come true or just have a “knowing” about people. One time I commented that it must be cool to have that ability, and the man said he wished he didn’t have it, because it was very difficult knowing something was going to happen (usually a death) and not being able to do anything about it.
So, I was attracted to this book and once I started reading, I got lost in the story, forgetting that it was YA or considered paranormal.
The opening paragraph grabbed my attention immediately; “ Somehow I thought I would know when my life was in mortal danger. I’m not talking spidey sense or anything, just some kind of clue something bad is about to happen. I guess I got the idea from the movies. Real life, I found, is very different…..” When I read that I was hooked.
The book is YA, and author totally got the teenage thing—and since I have been around teenagers throughout the years, I appreciated the teenage insecurities, the alienation that Em felt at school, the very spiteful nasty girl named Angel, that bullied Em. I appreciated Tommy, the new boy at school who liked her, (rather than Roz) and was there for her, protective but encouraging her to stand up for herself. And I could imagine what it was like to have a best friend that the guys just fell all over, while they ignored Em even though the two girls were together. Yet Roz was special and a loyal friend. The two girls shared a strong bond and Roz’s father was the “dad” Em didn’t have. His love reached out and included Em. And I am certain that Em’s strange sister, Lauren could have a book of her own because we only saw an unflattering side of her and it was hard to decide if she was jealous, overprotective, mentally unbalanced or if she also had a deep dark secret from the past. Em’s mother had her own problems; in fact her entire family was dysfunctional in so many ways.
The author portrays the characters well. Some I really liked, others I couldn’t stand, but the plots turns and twists kept me engaged, and several times when I was certain that I knew who the murderer was, in the next minute I wasn’t so certain.
The author ended the book with a great hook. A frightening phone call the voice of a person she thought was dead, that she believed was dead, that she wanted to be dead, saying “I’m coming home.”
—and I knew I will want to read the next book, even though this isn’t my usual genre.
A job well done Kat Stiles and I highly recommend this book to anyone who likes YA and paranormal—or people like me who will step out of the norm and just give it a try. Enjoy a great read!
Kudos to Kat Stiles for bringing multiculturalism to literature. She truly understands what the concept means. Check out this description of Roz, a major character in the story. “She didn’t even have to try to be beautiful. Her skin was a rich honey brown, a shade or two lighter than Dad’s mahogany complexion. She inherited her hair from her mother—bouncy, silky curls extended past her shoulders, jet black in color, but with a midnight blue sheen when the sun hit it right.” Roz is not only beautiful, but well-spoken, intelligent, and free from stereotypes. I love it.
Oh, back to the novel, haha! “Connected” is a slick YA fantasy novel, a kind of literary X-Men with a healthy helping of beautiful teen love. Mmmm … I remember those days. “Connected” is well-written with well-developed characters. Stiles does a fantastic job with the first-person narrative here, giving the reader a strong, yet flawed heroine in Emily who knows what she wants and how to go about getting it. First narratives often fall prey, even in mega novels, to the wimpy, whiny wishy washy characterizations that make even the best stories tedious, not “Connected”.
Connected is an easy read, a must read, a page turner and highly recommended. It’s also completely unpredictable, something rare in contemporary literature. I’m definitely looking forward to book two. The descriptions are vivid, well-crafted, and set the scenes and moods well. Check it out. “She inherited my mother’s hair color, though she wore it even shorter—the style was a cross between a pixie and the result of sticking your finger in a wall socket that I liked to call, “The Angry Pixie.” Today, it looked flat and lifeless, boyish even. She wore a scowl, which I’d come to believe was her natural expression,” and “The sky was a mixture of muted purple and pink hues, as the sun set and reflected against the increasingly large storm clouds.”
Stiles gets it right as the dialogue is super-authentic especially between Roz, Emily, and Tommy, but I think it’s the masterful inner-dialogue we experience through Emily that defines her and makes her character come through solid. Stiles also does a good job of showing instead telling which brings the reading closer in. Finally I like how the powers are introduced soon, but subtly especially Tommy’s, no spoilers. Did you hear me?
One more diversity check nurse Judy “Her long black hair was tied back, and from her warm complexion and slight accent, I guessed she was Hispanic,” and “One black haired boy who appeared Italian gazed wistfully at Roz and then looked away, his hands balling into fists.” Love this!
Five stars plus for connected.
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