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Series: Kate Chopin Collections (Book 3)
Paperback: 96 pages
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (March 1, 2019)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1503293181
ISBN-13: 978-1503293182
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6 x 0.2 x 9 inches
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This was a great way to get a taste of these authors and their series of books. Warning; most of these are just the first in a series and have cliff hanger endings or semi-cliff hanger endings. Still, very enjoyable read for most of the stories and you won't die if you don't continue reading the next in the series. I recommend trying it.
I am still reading these and will continue to update my review as I finish each story. However, as it stands now... You'll understand my one-star in a second.~The first book does not belong with this collection. The first book, "Darkangel" by Christine Pope, is amazing. Pope did an excellent job crafting characters, a concept, an intriguing plot, a detailed setting, everything. Everything about "Darkangel" is excellent. The details, the pacing, the plot twists, the mystery, were all done right. Every twist and turn is so sudden and unexpected but not outrageously misplaced, and it all flows smoothly with all the pieces coming together. Additionally, the final plot twist that becomes a cliffhanger ending was expertly done and makes the reader want more. I cried out in frustration when I turned the last page and was greeted by the title page of the next story.Angela, a witch prima-in-waiting, who has never left her hometown of Jerome, Arizona, except to go to Phoenix once a year, has to find her soulmate/consort before she turns twenty-two, and with only months left until the deadline, she's becoming desperate. Dozens of suitors have come to her door and failed her kiss-test. If she doesn't find her consort before she turns twenty-two, she'll never be able to unlock the full extent of her powers and lead her witch clan as their prima, and she's going to need all the power she can get if she's to protect her vulnerable clan from the powerful, vicious Wilcox clan a couple counties over. While she's stressing over potentially failing as prima before she even becomes prima, a new threat arrives. Is this the work of the Wilcox clan? Will she ever find her consort? Does she actually need a consort? What secrets have her family been hiding from her in an effort to "protect" her?5/5 stars.~The second story, "Twin Souls" by K.A. Poe, is forgettable at best. It reads like a teen's personal fantasy; no parents, no school (the main character drops out of high school towards the end of senior year, because it makes sense to give up on something you've worked for for twelve years of your eighteen-year-old life), her own car and house to do what she pleases with, a vampire boyfriend/soulmate, magical abilities... It's choppy, has "convenient" events that happen "conveniently," such as when the main character turns on the TV for no apparent reason and the news story happens to be about her mother who got mauled by a 'wild animal' in Denver, and is seriously lacking. I doubt K.A. Poe is any older than fifteen. I have nothing positive to say about this story.The main character Alexis (whose name I had to go look up because she's such a forgettable character that even her name didn't stick with me) wakes up one morning to find her mother gone. She's left a note on the counter saying she's moved to Denver with her new boyfriend (Alexis' dad is out of the picture for some reason) and is leaving the house to Alexis. Alexis goes to school as normal. (THE WHOLE STORY is filled with a lack of reactions to things normal people would freak out over, by the way. Newsflash, K.A. Poe! Humans react to things!) At school, she meets new kid Salem Young. He makes a pun about his name, but doesn't explain the pun to Alexis. For some reason, liking music is taboo and K.A. Poe goes out of her way to describe how Alexis hides her affinity for the piano, but ruins that by having Alexis play the piano likes a baus in front of the whole music class. Her talent and obsession(?) for the piano is only mentioned one more time in the story before being forgotten entirely.Salem convinces Alexis to go home with him (it went something like this: "Come home with me." "No." "Come home with me." "Well, okay.") and tells her she has to stay with him until midnight. It is never explained why they had to wait until midnight and this is never relevant or mentioned ever again. At midnight, he tells her that the woman who raised Alexis and is now living in Denver isn't actually her mother, and the never-mentioned-until-now uncle is her real father. Also he's a vampire hunter, also Salem is a vampire, also they hate each other. Well, Paul the uncle/father hates Salem. Salem couldn't care less. Normally, a human would freak out and get angry and call him crazy. Does Alexis? Nope! She accepts everything he says as fact and questions nothing. He has no evidence, but she decides he must be telling the truth because reasons. Yep.It goes on like this for-freaking-ever. Alexis suddenly gains a magical ability that was thought to only be in legends? "Okay." Alexis' mom/not mom gets slaughtered by her vampire boyfriend? She goes out to lunch with Salem after the funeral like nothing happened. Paul tries to kill Salen and almost succeeds? She, at first, holds a major grudge, and soon forgives him and acts like everything is cool and nothing happened. She doesn't want to be a vampire hunter like her father, but also she does, but she promises Salem she won't become a vampire hunter, but then she does... I can't tell if K.A. Poe made rules for her fictional universe and couldn't follow them, or if she never made rules at all.1/5 stars, but only because I can't not give it stars.~"The Girl" by Lola St Vil commits a cardinal sin of fictional writing: writing the story from one character's point of view, and then switching to a different character's point of view and RETELLING THE STORY SHE'S ALREADY TOLD. If you truly want to have two character's first person point of view on the same events, switch perspectives between chapters! Don't tell half the story, and then go back and retell it with a different character! That's lazy writing!"The Girl" is an attempt to write about God and angels and demons and Satan and apocalypse without it being a religious piece, which I have to give it props for. God is now called "Omnis" and Satan is now called "Lucy" (short for "Lucifer"?) and is female. There is a bridge where all souls go when they die, and if they go to one end the bridge, they go into the "light" because they were good, and if they go to the other end, they go to the "house of flames" because they were bad. Of course there are exceptions: teenagers who were neither good nor bad because they didn't live long enough to pick a side, bad people who died doing a selfless act like sacrificing themselves so someone innocent may live instead, people who sell their soul to Lucy, etc. Lucy wants control of this bridge so she can have all the souls that go there, but obviously that would be bad, so Omnis hid the location of it. An event happened, and Lucy demanded that she be given access to the bridge. Omnis still couldn't have that, so he created a map called the Triplex and hid it on Earth, and every 666 years, the Angels and the demons have a chance to go find it. If the Angels find it, the world continues for another 666 years, but if the demons find it, it could mean the end of the world. They are all given a clue by a neutral, omniscient soul called the Sage, who is currently inhabiting a six-year-old boy, and this time around, the clue is a girl named Emerson.Emerson (Emmy for short) is a superbly fleshed out character at first. She doesn't fit in at school but doesn't mind, she goes to great lengths to take care of her mother because she feels guilty about how she was conceived and because her mother is a little scatterbrained, she has wickedly violet eyes (which are never explained, by the way), and has a cat she treats like a person. Then comes the Angel Squad, made up of six insanely hot Angel Guardians, and the moment she lays eyes on Marcus, the leader, her dynamic character completely falls apart. The rest of the story is her pining over Marcus (Lola St Vil's word, not mine), Ameana getting angry because she's Marcus' girlfriend (because super-powerful, nearly-immortal entities on an apocalypse-preventing mission have love interests?), Emerson getting depressed about it, and...well, actually, that's it. [SPOILER] The world never gets saved, the Triplex never gets found, Emerson never gets with Marcus. She instantly loses her depth and becomes incredibly shallow and annoying. Entire chapters are dedicated to this issue, which apparently Marcus wants nothing to do with. He's torn between his heart and his loyalty; he loves Emerson yet he's promised his heart (literally) to Ameana. She becomes a right brat about it too.1/5, because of the character switch and retelling of events already written about. Lola St Vil doesn't even try to mask the fact that it's recycled. She skips entire swaths of conversation in the second half because it already happened in the first half. Lazy writing. Simply lazy.~"Rest For The Wicked" by Cate Dean could probably have been pretty interesting, had the author allowed the reader to connect with the characters. Halfway through the story, I still felt like the author was introducing the story and its characters. Nearly every scene change in the fist half of the story also changes which character the story follows, making it impossible to connect with any of them. It takes place in California, which the reader can only figure out when it's mentioned that the main character's Wicca shop is a two-hour drive from San Francisco. The story felt both rushed and dragged out, if that makes sense, and lacked sufficient detail, creating a barrier between the reader and the characters. It doesn't give the readers a chance to care about what happens to the characters. There is no character development, relationships between characters feels forced and unrealistic, and plot twists either feel incredibly convenient or out of place entirely. The author thrusts the reader into what feels like the middle of the story and then backtracks through exposition via dialogue. In fact, most of the dialogue is either exposition or "Clair, you can't do this alone." Show, don't tell, Cate Dean! You've gone full M. Night. Shyamalan! Don't ever go full M. Night Shyamalan!The story starts with two women, Clair and Annie, and two men, Marcus and Eric. Clair is an all-powerful being whose power keeps being described but she never uses it, even in situations where it would have been super useful. (For instance, at one point, there's a woman trapped in a car sinking into a river. Does she use her awesome power to pull the doomed woman from the car and save her? Nope! She grabs a rock and jumps into the river and tries to break the back window with the rock.) Annie is an exuberant young witch just coming into her powers; she's also the only slightly interesting character. I wish Cate Dean had focused more on Annie instead of Clair. Marcus is an ancient Jinn with a major guilt complex that is mentioned once and forgotten, and he has an attachment to Clair from the moment they randomly meet for some reason. Eric is the only human in the mix, and he spent about a third of the story under a possession spell, trying to kill Clair, but once they pull from him the spell, Clair and Annie befriend him. Eric serves exactly three purposes; to be a love interest for Annie, to be "the only human in the room", and to have exposition explained to him because that's easier than actually writing those important scenes. The four must do battle with the evil Natasha, who hates Clair so much that she's willing to hurt and kill humans in order to get at her."Rest For The Wicked" is three climaxes, exposition, and Clair being told that she "can't do this alone". It's boring and disengaging. The author had a good concept, but couldn't deliver.2/5 stars, because Cate Dean at least tried harder than K.A. Poe ("Twin Souls") and had an interesting concept.~Okay, at this point, I have no idea what age group this collection is targeted for. Other stories are incredibly childish ("Twin Souls", "The Girl"), and others are extremely 'adult'. "Drowning Mermaids" by Nadia Scrieva is one of those extremely adult ones.The story starts out in a strip club. A crabbing crew in Alaska has just lost a member of their crew and are drinking to cope with the loss. The main character, Captain Trevain, is mulling over the fact that this is the first time he's lost a man in the multiple decades he's captained a ship, wondering why he didn't see the warning signs as he usually does. As he's brooding, an exotic dancer takes the stages, and with her fluid movements and sloe eyes, dances her way into his heart. He strikes up a conversation with her after the dance ends, finding out that she and her two younger sisters are all on their own and she's trying to care for the three of them by herself. When he finds out they're living in a tiny motel room, he immediately offers her the use of his mansion which he really has no use for, since he spends most of his time out at sea. But who is she really? Where does she come from? Why is she in Alaska and what are her goals? Most importantly, what is she?"Drowning Mermaids" is very descriptive and utilizes interesting words instead of typical adjectives. It has good pacing and an interesting concept. Something that was also refreshing was the fact that despite being a "mermaid" story, it doesn't involve any magic or sorcery and the "mermaids" aren't really creatures of myth. The author goes out of her way to give her "mermaids" a scientific explanation instead of taking the easy "it's magic" cop-out. Characters are pretty believable and their relationships are pretty believable. Honestly, though, the climax felt a little too....scripted? And the villain is your average cut-and-paste villain. She's nothing special. How she's even a threat to the other main character, Aazuria, is beyond me. (Also, that name? Really? I get it you're going for something unique and original but for some reason my brain keeps reading that as "Az-az-zuria.")4/5 stars. It is entertaining and riveting at times, with incredible detail, and everything does come together in the end.~C. Gockel took an ancient Norwegian saga and put a modern twist on it in "Wolves". It stars the God of Mischief and a pretty average human with a dog ironically named Fenrir. Human Amy Lewis is a little down on her luck and is moving to be closer to her grandmother. On her way, she stops to let Fenrir out of the car for a few minutes, only for the dog to roll in something putrid and dead. Amy struggles to give the dog an impromptu bath in a rest stop bathroom sink, meeting a strange man who gives Amy the creeps as she was leaving. A while later down the road, she loses control of her car and it spins out and rolls over. Who pulls up in his own car to "rescue" her?Meanwhile, Loki has been locked away in a magical tower where he can't access his power with no memory of why he is there. He's pretty sure he did something to offend Odin but has no idea what. After conversing with Thor, who has been sent to guard him, for a few minutes, and trying to glean information from him, Loki realizes that Thor isn't angry with him; he's remorseful for some reason. Loki's ex-wife bursts in with Loki's knapsack, filled with hand grenades he collected during WWI, to help him escape so he can save their two sons who are about to executed by Odin for their political beliefs. The two escape, but Sigyn is mortally wounded by an arrow and Loki is running out of options. He knows he isn't powerful enough to face Odin by himself, but he doesn't have time to find reinforcements, and he also can't abandon his sons. He confronts Odin, managing successfully to do mental battle with the ancient man, but he is too late. Odin tosses the brothers into an open branch of the World Tree, and Loki dives in after them. Loki is dropped somewhere on Earth and, having used up nearly all of his power in the confrontation, must find someplace to recharge in order to find his sons, since they were separated. But before he can do anything, he hears the desperate mental cries of a certain young human woman in mortal danger...I have to give props to "Wolves" for its rather unusual concept. While Loki and the Norse pantheon obviously are not original, Amy Lewis and her grandmother are, and C. Gockel does a great job fleshing out their characters and keeping them in character. The story is told from both Amy and Loki's points of view, but it works. There is no rehashing of events already happened from someone else's perspective or clashing dialogue (unlike a certain other story I'd like to forget about). Also, refreshingly, this is not the Marvel/"Avengers" version of Loki. This Loki is closer to the Loki of Norse myths, where he isn't inherently evil because good and bad aren't really defined. Sometimes he does good things, other times he doesn't. He and the other characters have a profile and rules and a set personality, and they all stick to it. There's also some character development, which is impressive for such a short story.4/5 stars, but only because the author didn't explain some major concepts, like what the World Tree is, or where Loki and Odin come from (they're not gods; C. Gockel goes out of her way to make that clear), and how their magic works. Is the magic everywhere? Why does it take such a toll on magic users to actually use it?~"The Witch Hunter" by Nicole R Taylor started out a little rough. It immediately threw its readers into a fight between vampire/main character Zac and another vampire named Alistair. There is absolutely no reason for this confrontation or its aftermath. Zac didn't provoke Alistair, Alistair had no reason to go after Zac or the other vampire/main character Sam, nothing. The beginning could definitely still use some tweaks.Other than the pointless plot and a second pointless subplot with werewolves, this story is actually pretty good. It stars two vampire brothers (the aforementioned Zac and Sam), vampire fledgling Liz, witch Gabby, human Alex, and Witch Hunter Aya. Usually, when you've got a story this short, having six different main characters is pretty tough, but Nicole R Taylor did a good job of balancing them out. The story goes something like this: Zac meets Alistair at a bar. Alistair is looking for a woman "black of hair, blue of eye", but this description doesn't match anyone in town, and anyway, Zac and Sam have claimed this town as their territory and want Alistair gone. For some reason, Alistair decides he's going to expose them and take the town for himself, despite the fact that he's on a mission given to him by someone else. Zac takes dramatic action to protect himself and his brother and the fledgling Liz, and royally ticks off a dead witch named Karin who has figured out how to stop her soul from "crossing over" so she can continue to meddle in the mortal world. The vampire trio + witch aren't powerful enough to defeat Karin on their own, so Gabby finds a spell in her family grimoire to summon the fabled vampire called the Witch Hunter. No one knows anything about the Witch Hunter, just that for some reason this person serves justice to bad witches. They do the summoning ritual, awakening Aya from a two-hundred-year slumber. But Aya is no ordinary vampire, even with the title aside. She has un-vampire-like abilities. What is she? What are her goals? Why does Karin hate her so much? Also there's werewolves sometimes, and though everyone freaks out about them for a while, they aren't actually an issue. *shrugNicole R Taylor does a really good job of keeping all of her characters in character, and while the vampire trio doesn't experience much in the way of character growth, Gabby, Alex, and Aya definitely do. Gabby learns to trust herself, Alex learns to keep an open mind, and Aya learns to trust others and that opening herself up isn't necessarily a bad thing. Another thing the author does well is having a human character in a supernatural story and not using him as an exposition board. Alex learning their secret helps him grow as a character and isn't a major turning point in the book, and the author doesn't use him to explain exposition. She understands that exposition is better shown than explained. There is romance, but it isn't a major theme and doesn't take up the majority of the story. The author wrote a plot (evil dead witch is looking for someone "black of hair, blue of eye" and will manipulate anyone in order to get what she wants, vampire trio + witch + Aya must deal with that) and stuck to it. I just wish the author had fleshed out the reason Alistair chose to suddenly try to move in on Zac and Sam's territory when that wasn't part of his mission and why Karin suddenly vowed revenge on them when Alistair provoked them and they were just defending themselves, and that the werewolves weren't added. They weren't even an issue to the main characters and they served no purpose, plus there were already enough bad guys.4/5.
I spend a few hours reading the first book of this series. A book about a witch - who only completed one spell. The entire book is focus on the girl finding her special someone who happens **spoiler ** to be from their hated clan. It was rather predictable, but as an rational reader, I kept reading hoping to find a story. When the story began to become entertaining - it ended in a cliffhanger - ugggrr!! I hate cliffhanger endings! Dearest author, I will not buy your next book if I do not feel satisfied with your first book. When a reader finishes a book, s/he should feel something more than throwing the book across the room. I like happy endings with hints for the second book plot or what I call continuation plot books. I am glad this is free because I would want my money back.Hopefully, the second book is better...
This is a book of stories by Kate Chopin beginning with Awakening, a novella. Inside the book there are 9 stories as:1. The Awakening2. Beyond the Bayou3. Ma'ame Pélagie4. Desiree's Baby5. A Respectable Woman6. The Kiss7. A Pair of Silk Stockings8. The Locket9. A ReflectionThe awakening approaches the realization of the female sexuality. The story takes place during the late 1800s in Grand Isle, a summer resort for the wealthy in New Orleans. Edna Pontellier, who is a painter, is vacationing with her husband, Léonce, and their two sons at the cottages of Madame Lebrun. After her husband leaves, Edna falls in love with Robert Lebrun, the older, single son of Madame Lebrun. When Edna returns to the city, she is a changed woman who rents her own place and has a sexual relationship with another man.Later when she meets Robert again and Robert rejects her since she is a married woman, although he is in love with her, Edna returns to her husband and children.In Beyond the Bayou, La Folle suffers from her deeply ingrained fear of the unknown, but an incident with someone named Cheri who shot himself in the leg by accident, pulls her out of her familiar surroundings and liberates her from her fears.In Ma'ame Pélagie, the main character is able to continue appearing youthful while her dreams of the old life still survive because she associates the most hopeful period of her life with antebellum Louisiana. At the end, she realizes she is old inside herself, although outwardly she appeared young.Desiree's Baby evaluates the class-based and racially prejudiced attitudes of the Antebellum South. Desiree gives birth to a black baby, while her husband Armand believes in acts according to the social and class prejudices of the era. A letter written by Armand's mother, however, discloses Armand's African heritage.In A Respectable Woman, the wealthy Mrs. Baroda faces temptation of an illicit affair by a guest named Governail, as she struggles with her own self-imposed rules. Finally she wins over her emotions and approaches her husband and tells him she has overcome everything.In The Kiss, Nathalie is plotting to marry the good-natured but unattractive and rather foolish Brantain while maintaining an affair with Mr. Harvy. At the end, Harvy ends their relationship and Natalie stays with Brantain as he has much better material assets and social status.In A Pair of Silk Stockings, Mrs. Sommers comes across some money. Even though her original spending plan is more conventional, her emotions get the better of her and she spends the whole thing on herself, showing her craving to return to a past, or rather her youth, when she was independent and didn't have to scrimp and save.The Locket deals with love and war, during the Civil War era, between two lovers Edmond and Octavie. When a soldier's body is found with the locket Octavie had given to Edmond, Octavie goes into mourning. Edmond, however, returns home in one piece, revealing that the locket was stolen by another soldier. Edmond's return restores Octavie's happiness. This story shows the ravages of war on not only the land but on the peoplewho are in love.A Reflection is a very short piece, resembling a prose-poem on the author's brief thoughts on life.In these stories, important themes are: independence and autonomy, especially those of a woman's, gender and identity, the author's opposition to societal norms, class and race, love and desire and the difference between the two concepts, life and death, and Civil War.Kate Chopin was a child of Irish and French Creole descent in the upper class of St. Louis in the decades surrounding the Civil War. She is known best as reflecting the colors of Lousiana as setting and as a farsighted writer exploring race, sexuality, freedom, and psychology of the individual as a person.
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