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Ela Lond

Autor(a) de Red Moon's Reflection

9 Works 49 Membros 4 Críticas

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Obras por Ela Lond

Red Moon's Reflection (2011) 20 exemplares
Red Moon (2011) 13 exemplares
Fall Vol.3 (2011) 6 exemplares
The 13th: Destiny Awaits (2013) 3 exemplares
Repository 2 exemplares
Hegira (2012) 1 exemplar
The 13th: Frozen Destiny (2014) 1 exemplar
Together Forever 1 exemplar

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A Near-Future YA/Cozy Mystery with A Somewhat Predictable End

Set one hundred years in the future, Repository is the story of Maya Bell, an eighteen-year-old university student who stumbles across an apparent murder. Teaming with a classmate from high school who’s now a policeman-in-training, Damien Cain, they pursue the case as it grows from an isolated incident to a major conspiracy built on a heinous disregard of life.

Repository has the feel of a young adult or cozy mystery even if it’s not classified that way (it’s in the Mystery/Thriller, women and amateur sleuth genre on Amazon). That feel suits the story well, as much of the excitement comes from the optimism and enthusiasm of youth. Why call in backup or carefully stake out a potential crime scene when you can rush in unprepared? But that feel also dampens some of the emotion when its needed. On discovering the atrocious nature of the crime they were investigating, the comment was that it’s “…horrible and really disgusting.”

Maya was easy to like as the over-achieving, guilt-ridden student turned sleuth. And other than the immaturity that seemed extreme in places, Damien was as well. Pacing was good, although there seemed some unnecessary repetition. Overall, the plot was somewhat predictable; it was fairly clear from about the middle of the book what was happening and how it would end. The details getting there, of course, were unknown and the author does an admirable job keeping the reader immersed to the end.

As a story set one-hundred years in the future, Repository provided a somewhat ‘mixed bag’ of future technology. One gadget that was featured was wearable computing in the form of glasses – a tech novelty that may have already come and gone. And a lot of the technology seemed 2017 era – emails and dishwashers – or not as far along as you might expect, e.g., androids could be distinguished from humans because of their unsynchronized lip movement. In 100 years, really? But there were androids and an Artificial Intelligence with a personality chip, the latter being a lot of fun.

So, if you’re a fan of well-written, YA/cozy mysteries and don’t mind a somewhat predictable finale, you’ll enjoy Repository.
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BMPerrin | Sep 17, 2019 |
Kate's mom has been institutionalized because her ghosts have drove her over the edge. She attempted to take Kate's life. Now Kate realizes shes next in line to lose her head over the ghosts. She has been seeing them for years now but once her mom is placed in a facility her talents become much stronger, more annoying and she wants control. When a new hunk shows up at school and starts paying attention to Kate she has to wonder if its not some big joke. She the average nerdy girl that is constantly bullied by her classmates. When Ethan tells her he can teach her how to not only control but use her gifts Kate is a bit cautious and much more suspicious of the reasons that Ethan has started tagging along. This is a teen novel for ages approx. 10-18 good read keep an open mind… (mais)
 
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lcsdr60 | Jul 24, 2015 |
I haven't read the Moon Reflection series and as a newcomer I had no idea what was going on. I think I understood Damon's ultimate goal but with everything else I had no clue.
 
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Cynical_Ames | Sep 23, 2014 |
This was such a convoluted story. It had way too much going on. It is also in need of serious editing. The way it was written, I got the feel that it was translated into English, because there were so many missing words. Just really badly written.
 
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DrkCherry | Sep 21, 2013 |

Estatísticas

Obras
9
Membros
49
Popularidade
#320,875
Avaliação
½ 2.5
Críticas
4