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Tainted Energy (The Energy Series Book 1) Kindle Edition

by Lynn Vroman (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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Book 1 of 4: The Energy Series

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For seventeen-year-old Lena, living in the trailer park with the rest of town’s throwaways isn’t exactly paradise. Dealing with a drunken father who can’t keep his fists to himself doesn’t help matters either. The only good thing in her life, other than track, is the mysterious man who visits her dreams, promising to find her.

When a chair burns her arms, Lena chalks it up to stress-induced crazy. Yet as bizarre incidents escalate, even being crazy can’t explain it all away… until one day dream guy does find her.

Tarek lost Lena seventeen years ago after she was accused of treason and marked Tainted. He finally discovers her reborn on Earth into a life of suffering as punishment for her crime. However, someone else has already found her… and wants her dead. Willing to sacrifice everything, he fights to keep her safe so she can live the only life she’s ever known—even if that life doesn’t include him.

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Born in Pennsylvania, Lynn spent most of her childhood, especially during math class, daydreaming. The main result that came from honing her imagination skills was brilliantly failing algebra. Today, she still spends an obscene amount of time in her head, only now she writes down all the cool stuff. With a degree in English Literature, Lynn used college as an excuse to read for four years straight. She lives in the Pocono Mountains with her husband, raising the four most incredible human beings on the planet. She writes young adult novels, both fantasy and contemporary.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00O0H7MTG
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Untold Press (November 4, 2014)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 4, 2014
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2131 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 304 pages

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Born in Pennsylvania, Lynn spent most of her childhood, especially during math class, daydreaming. Today, she spends an obscene amount of time in her head, only now she writes down all the cool stuff.

With a degree in English Literature, Lynn used college as an excuse to read for four years straight. She lives in the Pocono Mountains with her husband, raising the four most incredible human beings on the planet. She writes young adult novels, both fantasy and contemporary.

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Gertrude L. Wescoat

Adventurous Minds Need to Read this Book

Reviewed in the United States on April 25, 2015

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It may start out as an ordinary story, but then turns into something altogether different. Different dimensions intertwined with people with different purposes. The author does great work at making you feel like you are right there beside Lena, feeling what she is feeling and seeing the images around her. It draws you into her world. It opens your mind to posibilities of what may surround us but be unseen by our eyes. It is a heart touching story of love that lasts beyond one lifetime. I had to get book 2 before I finished book one so I could keep on going and see what happens next. It touches on all the human emotions. I highly recommend this book.

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J. B. Garner

A mix of innovative spices and tired flavors from the paranormal romance kitchen, waffling between excellent and stale!

Reviewed in the United States on August 14, 2015

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Ah paranormal romance! It’s a meal plan that should allow for a wide range of cuisines, story combinations that can plumb the darkest depths and brightest lights of the imagination. However, like many popular genres, so many chefs fall into tried-and-true recipes, digging a creative rut in the road so deep that it seems inescapable. Does Tainted Energy, with its promise of reincarnation and alien worlds, break out of the rut?

Before we find out, let’s remind ourselves of the Starving Review bylines, passed down to us from the Starving Reviews LLC corporate tower:

I attempt to rate every book from the perspective of a fan of the genre
I attempt to make every review as spoiler-free as possible.

I’m going to be upfront on this one. The answer to that initial question is a solid ‘maaaaaaybe?’. Before you throw discarded cupcake wrappers at me in protest, let me explain!

There are certainly some new and creative flavors Ms. Vroman introduces into the paranormal romance pot. Indeed, there are some interesting concepts involving evolution, alternate dimensions, and what serial immortality might do to a person emotionally and spiritually. When Energy delves into this creative new world, it is generally at its best in terms of world building.

Also, Energy is written a cut above the median level of the romance chefs. Generally quick pacing, smart writing, and overall solid style give the meal a good backing in the fundamentals department. If I have any stylistic quibble, it’s the chef’s strange decision to move to the third-person in any chapter told from the point of view of the main male lead, while retaining the first person for the female lead. It isn’t a meal-breaking issue, but it always struck me as a bit strange every time it happened.

The core characterization is well-done also … with a few small provisos. I liked our main protagonists and I especially liked Wilma, the lunch lady. The secondary characters were only lightly fleshed out, but serviceable. The main issues were with the antagonists. Though not completely cardboard, they were never truly fleshed out, especially the final antagonist. I will certainly grant they had motivations for their actions, but they were poorly utilized in the book itself, leaving the dramatic tension uneven at times, save for the drunken father. Despite being the most cardboard cutout of the antagonists, the realistic portrayal of his abuse made his scenes the most tense and chilling of them all.

So why the maybe? Things are looking good so far, right? Well, there is one major issue and that comes down to the plot. Energy, despite its creative jumps and solid writing, winds up following the YA paranormal romance recipe in most aspects of the plot. We have a love triangle, a mysterious and compelling male lead, an abusive home life, a hidden other world more important than our own, a mystery antagonist that doesn’t get shown in the flesh until the tail-end of the book, and, in my opinion the two big offenders, ‘love-at-first-sight’ and ‘female-lead-is-damseled’.

The first may be forgivable with the backstory of reincarnations and past lives but it still rang a little hollow. That could still be made up for with solid writing through the rest of the series, so that’s only a minor ding. The second, the classic Damsel/Dude in Distress, hurts. It especially hurts because the female lead showed a good deal of agency at various points in the book … not perfect, but certainly a step above the paranormal romance norm. It’s sad the see that deflate like a poorly cooked souffle at the end when she is SPOILERED SPOILER SPOILERS. Crap, I can’t say, but you can probably figure it out. Suffice it to say that for the climax of the book, all previous agency has been pretty much shorn away and it hurts that the chef felt the need to add that final deadly dash of romance spice to this mix.

So where does that leave us? Tainted Energy is a mix of both innovative new spices and tired flavors from the paranormal romance kitchen, waffling between excellent and stale. The rest of the series might be able to make up for those missteps in the first book and, regardless, Energy still has its solid parts and is well-written on a technical level. If you love romance novels, it’s a good representative of the genre and you’d enjoy it. If you don’t, there isn’t enough new spice here to be worth your money.

FINAL VERDICT: *** (A mix of innovative spices and tired flavors from the paranormal romance kitchen, waffling between excellent and stale!)

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Lady Anne

EXCELLENT STORY

Reviewed in the United States on July 9, 2015

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I found the storyline and plot twists unique and the writing is excellent. The world building was very good; the reader is able to immerse themselves into that world because the author’s description and details are done so well.

The alternating storylines in each chapter made it somewhat difficult to read and the book needs to be edited better. I know that this is a problem for new authors starting out but I’ve seen books on other sights that were slammed just because of editing. This is an interesting story and I wouldn’t want it to be overlooked or shunned because of lack of editing. I like the storyline and the strong, smart women that were the main characters. The concept is good as are the action scenes and I’m repeating myself here but the lack of good editing is hurting this book.

4.25/5 STARS: **I received a free copy of this eBook in exchange for an honest review.**

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Sue V.

I'm Lynn Vromans #1 fan after this novel

Reviewed in the United States on April 25, 2015

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Oh boy, where do I begin? this book was amazing. I loved the story! I felt a real connection with Lena. I felt like I was in her world, or worlds, the whole time. I also enjoyed how Lynn wrote it from two points of view. we see Lena's world from her side of things, and we see Tarek's as an outsider. This gave the novel an extra hint that Lena was Tarek's life, like he gave up his first-person section(s) so the novel could be about her. That's real true love, I think.
The way Lynn writes is phenomenal. Gahh I can't wait for the next book in this series. Just loved it!

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May Max

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Reviewed in the United States on March 17, 2016

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This book read slow for me; especially the first 50% when I wondered how long it was going to take to get good and if I should consider setting it aside for something else. Lately I've felt, with reading books, that I should read them all through and give them the chance they deserve. Something this size should not have taken me this long to read, but it did. It was boring. The only thing I enjoyed was the beginning up to the moment when the chair gets all freaky. After that the story, which should have been rich, fell flat. I could not care less about Lena, Tarek, Zander, Wilma, and anyone else listed in the story. The main thing I thought about through the whole book was "Is it over yet?" Basically, the author took far too long to try to grab my interest. 70% in was too late.

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Rebekah Powell

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Reviewed in the United States on February 5, 2016

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You will forget to fix dinner, wash clothes, or even sleep if you pick up this series! IT'S THAT GOOD! Haven't seen my family in four days! Lena's story is fast paced, starting (but not really!) in a trailer park. Ending, in a palace as a " princess". In the middle of those bookends are many good times, bad times, love, hate, battles, magic, powerful men and women. Civilizations won and lost. So much excitement packed into four books! What a wonderful job our author did, weaving peace with strife, serenity with longing. Get this series!

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Auf jeden Fall lesen

Reviewed in Germany on June 15, 2015

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Dieses Buch hat mich von Seite 1 an gefangen genommen. I mag Lena sehr gerne; die Art wie sie sich gegen ihren Vater auflehnt, ihrer Mutter hilft und sich trotzdem darin nicht verliert. Sie ist das gesamte Buch ein Macher. Ebenfalls mag ich, dass sie anders als ihr früheres Ich ist und wie das in der Geschichte gehandhabt wurde.

Die Nebencharaktere waren ebenfalls liebenswert. Keine einseitigen Persönlichkeiten.

Tainted Energies ist leicht und schnell zu lesen, allerdings muss ich anmerken, dass es gegen Ende etwas zu schnell und kurz geraten ist. Der zweite Band wird auf jeden Fall von mir gekauft und der erste bei Zeiten erneut gelesen.

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