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Exiled

por RaShelle Workman

Séries: Immortal Essence (1)

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On princess Venus's planet of Kelari, her people go through a change at the age of sixteen, one that takes them from mortality to immortality. But on her birthday, before the change can take place, she's hurled to Earth. It's a planet she can't survive on for long.

After pleading with the Gods, her guardian, Zaren counsels that the only way Venus can return home is if she helps someone find his soul mate. That seems a simple task. From her Earth Studies classes, she's learned humans fall in love easily. But when she meets Michael her attitude changes. He's broken, angry, and incredibly arrogant. Venus doesn't even know if he can love.

With time running out, and evil forces from her planet as well as Earth trying to destroy her, she focuses on helping Michael heal and find love. Because her life, her planet, and her people are depending on her success. If she doesn't triumph, she'll die, but if she does, she might lose her heart.

*** This is a full-length (85,000 words) YA fade-to-black science fiction romance. There is light swearing, sensuality, and some violence and gore. Book one ends on a cliffhanger. ***
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Praise for this series:

"Michael and Venus have probably been the best pairing/couple that I've read about this year! GO READ THIS BOOK! You will love it. Seriously." Nancy, reviewer Tumbling Books

"Writing that moves readers to ponder their hearts is good writing, and that's what readers will find with Workman. Her protagonist is strong willed, her antagonist is easy to hate, and her mentor is easy to love." Kathleen Brebes

"What a ride!" Taffy Lovell
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Books in this series:
EXILED
DESTINED
ALIGNED (short story)
EARTH'S GUARDIAN (short story)

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I purchased this book off of https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/93621

College Kid who reads YA.
4/5

Don't often review books, but this one deserves the attention. It's different from what is being advertised in most situations. It's not a dystopian, no vampire, werewolves, or fairies in sight here. Just aliens.

We start off with Venus and her 16th birthday, where in Kelari you receive a task which you must complete to become immortal. Nothing to be spoiled, things don't go as they should and she gets "exiled" to Earth. Here she must complete her task.

Zaren, who is somewhat of a bodyguard, goes with her following his oath to protect and server her. I do like him more than Michael. He knows her personality much better and that makes him a better choice in my opinion.

The first human she stumbles across happens to be Michael. After a not too friendly confrontation she comes to learn that her task is to make him find his true love. Although the summary gives away the major spoiler in the book, there are other twists which make you want to continue reading.

This book is one of few which kept me interested to the point that I did not pick up another while I was reading.

A 4/5 for me since I was constantly being sucked in. It did take a little bit to understand what was going on in the first few chapters, but once the terms became familiar it was alright. My first book in which I actually read about aliens and hope that this becomes a new theme. Will most definitely be buying the sequel when it comes out.
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  Amoonsiong | Sep 24, 2013 |
Time for an admission: I didn’t reread the synopsis before going into this book. This meant that I read the first chapter, encountered the alien world and settled myself in for a story set on another planet. Then I flicked to chapter two and suddenly I’m on Earth with this human boy. This is my own fault as had I read the synopsis, I would have known what I was getting myself into, but I still felt a bit thrown by it.

It didn’t help that as soon as Venus was on Earth, it was like she knew
everything
about American culture. It was justified by saying that she’d taken Earth studies class but speaking as someone who’s changed culture twice, class never prepares you to slip right in. You’re thrown by how much you didn’t know about the culture and you’re overwhelmed by things that are general knowledge that you didn’t know about. What’s more, you never stop finding new things that you weren’t aware of for whatever reason.

You only see that take place once in the book with Venus when she gets called out for using a word that went out of style a few years ago (not that it was ever in style for me.) I stopped buying the Earth studies thing when she knew a brand of footwear that I, as a human being living on the other side of the pond, have never heard of. On top of that, there was some cartoon that she was talking about having watched in class that, again, I have never heard of. I don’t care how many hours a day you spend in
Earth
studies, you are not going to know
American
culture like that.

However, as it is their culture anyway, this may mean that it’s easier for Americans to buy it.

Another thing, what’s with the requisite love triangles? I’m starting to get bored of them because often enough they’re not very well-written anyway and you end up with “teams”. If I have to be on a team, I’m on “team Zaren” because he knows the Princess, had more than a week to “fall in love” with her, stood by her despite all her bad decisions, and… oh yeah, didn’t end up almost getting her killed. What’s more, Zaren was probably one of the most rounded characters in the story. Both Venus and Michael, despite much of the story being told in their voices, stayed pretty flat.

I didn’t like Michael much at all. He was supposed to be a damaged teen – hard on the outside but with plenty of love to give on the inside. In the end, he just came across as being a moody pushover, always twisted to fit others’ desires and allowing that to be done of him, just grumbling a bit in his thought flow.

I’m a bit worried about where this Michael-in-love-with-Venus thing will leave poor Zaren. Venus herself seems to become a wet sack of emotions each time either one of them is around and doesn’t know what she wants. The way she constantly reacted got annoying after a while. Then again, I never liked Venus much anyway as she was a bit of an airhead fool. She never failed to make a bad decision should one be presented to her. She never shut up about how the planet was killing her, either. That is tell. Her coughing blood and getting weaker each day is show. It really isn’t necessary to always combine the two of them as the author did. Venus would complain about feeling weak, then cough blood, and then complain that she was dying. Just show her steady decline and don’t back it up with thoughts or speech.

Talking about scenes where Venus was practically on the verge of death, there were some major issues with consistency. Venus would be very weak, unable to get herself back on her feet, then something would happen to, say, Michael, and she’d be practically buzzing with energy before she returned to being unable to lift her own head. And this happened several times. Consistency is key. Consistency did not exist here.

One last useless thing: what was with Tawny deciding to steal Venus’s boots – even getting her own PoV for a chapter – and then just running away when she makes her attempt, never to make another appearance in the book? What was the point behind the whole scene? I really don’t know.

All this said, the story itself was quite interesting even though almost every twist and turn is given away in the synopsis (yes, I’ve read it now!). The alien society was intriguing and I would have liked to have had the chance to explore it more as it really appealed to me. It would seem that the sequel will be at least in part set in Venus’s society, so I’ll definitely be checking back to find out what happens next.

Plus, I’d like to see Zaren get more depth! ( )
  Readaba | May 1, 2012 |
This is quite possible the most gorgeous cover of 2011, paralleled only by [bc:Deadly Cool|10429033|Deadly Cool|Gemma Halliday|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1305923021s/10429033.jpg|15333446]. Hope the book is as great.
  DijaK | Feb 6, 2012 |
Synopsis:Stubborn, sixteen-year-old Princess Venus of Kelari wants one thing, to become immortal, that is, until someone exiles her to Earth, kills her irrihunter and takes her family.Now she wants revenge.First she’s got to get home. But before she can return to Kelari, the Gods have commanded her to help an arrogant boy named Michael find his soul mate. Only she doesn't know the first thing about love.Rather quickly, her inexperience with human emotion is obscured by other matters—alien-controlled psychotic teens that are out to kill her, and a government group that is set on capturing and dissecting her.Worst of all, Venus will suffer a painful death-by-poisoning, thanks to Earth’s atmosphere, if she remains on the planet longer than one week. Still, Venus is a Princess and she's got a plan. Surely, with her help, Michael will fall in love with a human.But time is running out and Michael is falling for the wrong girl—her. Review:I'm sooo disappointed. I've been waiting to read this book for so long but....The writing was okay. In parts the dialogue was terrible. The teenage lingo-speak dialogue was cringe-worthy. The stereotypical high school elements were nauseating.The only solid character in the whole book was Zaren. Solid, through and through. All the rest including Venus were so opaque it wasn't funny. The story was so confusing and preposterious (especially near the end) that it made a good idea too complicated to read easily, I had to keep checking back to try and understand the story. Plus, large parts of 'tell' and no 'show'.The romance was icky,and Venus was jumping off the walls every time Michael or Zaren were nearby.Thoroughly disappointed and I love YA sci-fi. If you want to read a good book try Keira's Moon by Lizzy Ford or Elemental: The First by Alexandra May. So much better. ( )
  bkwormblogger | Jan 18, 2012 |
First of all, I must point out the obvious. This cover is absolutely stunning. It's what made me want to pick up the book in the first place. When I finally read the book, it definitely didn't disappoint either. The characters were witty and funny. Venus even though she was sick, wasn't whiny and made a lot of wisecracks that had me chuckling. The only character that I found annoying was Cheverly because she seemed like a main character, but she wasn't explained very well. I thought I was going to find the book not to my liking after reading the synopsis, but the author pulled off the plot very well. She makes you feel like you're right there, experiencing all the characters emotions. I so excited to learn whether Venus picks Michael or Zaren. I'm curious in the next book to find out more about Michael's past and why he doesn't get hurt as easily as a normal person would. I can't wait to read the next book, Beguiled, and fall back into the story. ( )
  kayla_merritt | Dec 22, 2011 |
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Fantasy. Romance. Folklore. Young Adult Fiction. HTML:

On princess Venus's planet of Kelari, her people go through a change at the age of sixteen, one that takes them from mortality to immortality. But on her birthday, before the change can take place, she's hurled to Earth. It's a planet she can't survive on for long.

After pleading with the Gods, her guardian, Zaren counsels that the only way Venus can return home is if she helps someone find his soul mate. That seems a simple task. From her Earth Studies classes, she's learned humans fall in love easily. But when she meets Michael her attitude changes. He's broken, angry, and incredibly arrogant. Venus doesn't even know if he can love.

With time running out, and evil forces from her planet as well as Earth trying to destroy her, she focuses on helping Michael heal and find love. Because her life, her planet, and her people are depending on her success. If she doesn't triumph, she'll die, but if she does, she might lose her heart.

*** This is a full-length (85,000 words) YA fade-to-black science fiction romance. There is light swearing, sensuality, and some violence and gore. Book one ends on a cliffhanger. ***
__________

Praise for this series:

"Michael and Venus have probably been the best pairing/couple that I've read about this year! GO READ THIS BOOK! You will love it. Seriously." Nancy, reviewer Tumbling Books

"Writing that moves readers to ponder their hearts is good writing, and that's what readers will find with Workman. Her protagonist is strong willed, her antagonist is easy to hate, and her mentor is easy to love." Kathleen Brebes

"What a ride!" Taffy Lovell
__________

Books in this series:
EXILED
DESTINED
ALIGNED (short story)
EARTH'S GUARDIAN (short story)

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