Jennifer Gooch Hummer
Autor/a de Girl Unmoored
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Operation Tenley (The Fair City Files) de Jennifer Gooch Hummer
Ressenya escrita per a Crítics Matiners de LibraryThing .Kinda cute story but with a few storytelling bumps that middle-graders with most likely speed through.
Ressenya escrita per a Crítics Matiners de LibraryThing .I realised once the central character was a typical young teenage girl that this book wasn't written for a middle aged woman like me!! But I read it anyway.
Interesting concepts though I found some of the speech clunky at times.
Good read for the young teen age group.
Interesting concepts though I found some of the speech clunky at times.
Good read for the young teen age group.
Ressenya escrita per a Crítics Matiners de LibraryThing .A quick fun read about humans with elemental powers, their fairy godmothers, and a mother nature who sees humans as her enemy. The first in a series this book sets up a series full of politics, action, and teenage troubles.
Ressenya escrita per a Crítics Matiners de LibraryThing .I won a free copy of this book from LibraryThing Early Reviewers in exchange for an honest review.
In the world of Operation Tenley, we have a group of beings called Fair Ones who monitors and looks after humans who are born with special powers to manipulate the Elements. Their main duty is to protect these humans from being discovered by Mother Nature, who is intent of destroying the human race. The story revolves mainly around the eponymous Tenley Tylwyth, an over-the-top obnoxious 13 year old girl who discovered her Elemental abilities before she reached 18 years old, a situation which will normally necessitate said human to be "erased" for his/her own good, and her overly protective Fair One, Pennie's attempts to save her from annhilation.
There is a back story telling us how the system came to be in place, though it was not expanded upon much in this first book. Depending on how the author handles it, it has the potential to be either great or terrible.
The characters are really the highlight of the book. We don't know much about the history of the characters and we don't really know what made them who they are today. However, we do know what their motivations are and why they act the way they do now. Every character has a life of his/her own and they are extremely divergent from one another in terms of how they think and act.
Overall, this is a fun read that is the book equivalent of a short, beginner-level roller coster ride. Recommended for children under 12 years old.
Plot: 3.5 stars
World building: 3 stars
Character development: 5 stars
Overall: 3.5 stars… (més)
In the world of Operation Tenley, we have a group of beings called Fair Ones who monitors and looks after humans who are born with special powers to manipulate the Elements. Their main duty is to protect these humans from being discovered by Mother Nature, who is intent of destroying the human race. The story revolves mainly around the eponymous Tenley Tylwyth, an over-the-top obnoxious 13 year old girl who discovered her Elemental abilities before she reached 18 years old, a situation which will normally necessitate said human to be "erased" for his/her own good, and her overly protective Fair One, Pennie's attempts to save her from annhilation.
There is a back story telling us how the system came to be in place, though it was not expanded upon much in this first book. Depending on how the author handles it, it has the potential to be either great or terrible.
The characters are really the highlight of the book. We don't know much about the history of the characters and we don't really know what made them who they are today. However, we do know what their motivations are and why they act the way they do now. Every character has a life of his/her own and they are extremely divergent from one another in terms of how they think and act.
Overall, this is a fun read that is the book equivalent of a short, beginner-level roller coster ride. Recommended for children under 12 years old.
Plot: 3.5 stars
World building: 3 stars
Character development: 5 stars
Overall: 3.5 stars… (més)
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- Obres
- 2
- Membres
- 47
- Popularitat
- #330,643
- Valoració
- 4.3
- Ressenyes
- 10
- ISBN
- 7
- Llengües
- 1
