A Feather's Force
The Jadesin Journals, Book 1
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A Feather's Force
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Molly Bolton
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Sixteen-year-old high school track star, Ember, wants to run as far and as fast as she can, away from the pain of her father’s recent death. Instead, she’s hiding out in the basement of her dad’s coffee shop—at least now no one can ask her how she’s doing for the millionth time. She finds a doorway to Espereva, a magical world from her childhood bedtime story. There, she unlocks a power that has lain dormant in her blood for years.
Unfortunately, the more she learns about the world, the darker it becomes. The king captures and conducts gruesome experiments on the inhabitants in order to steal their powers. Espereva is being torn apart and her family is at the root of it all. Horrified at the atrocities but driven for the need to understand who and what she is, Ember joins and trains with a group of rebels plotting the king’s downfall. Still struggling with her grief and the secret her family has kept from her for years, Ember can barely control her new found abilities. But when one of her rebel friends is kidnapped and destined to be the king’s next victim, Ember must embrace all that she is and set aside her personal struggles to rescue her friend—because losing someone else is not an option.
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This book is a pretty typical portal fantasy with a young protagonist finding her way in the world, and with lots of secrets coming to light as she comes into her powers. Among the things I very much enjoyed were the good relationships Ember had with her extended family, viewing her cousin as a sister. Although there is some angst after her father’s death, Amber doesn’t angst much about her powers which is refreshing. A sixteen-year-old gaining magical powers and whining about it? I doubt it. Also, I love that it doesn’t have romance, that the first boy she stumbles on isn’t her fated mate or whatever, and that when faced with a dangerous task, she doesn’t try to fix it all herself—she actually turns to the aforementioned family.
I would have liked a bit more depth to several of the characters. Even the MC falls a bit flat as we are thrown through the adventure and she gains powers at a speed that would make a racehorse jealous. It is an obvious start of a series, as there is a lot about the evil king that hardly goes anywhere in this book, but will be the basis for future books. There are twists and turns, some more obvious than others. There is no cliffhanger, for which I’m grateful.
Overall, I did enjoy it a lot, and the audiobook narrator (Molly Bolton) does an excellent job with different voices and tempo.
YA portal fantasy
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