Showing posts with label Kathy Bell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kathy Bell. Show all posts

Monday, March 8, 2021

It's Monday! What Are You Reading #509, March 8th

It's Monday! What Are You Reading is a weekly meme hosted by Book Date where we share what we read this past week, what we hope to read this week...and anything in between! This is a great way to plan out your reading week and see what others are currently reading as well...you never know where that next "must read" book will come from!

What happened in the past week:

Weekly Memes:
It's Monday! What Are You Reading #508
Teaser Tuesday #516
WWW Wednesday #516
WOW #512
Will the Time Come #509
Third Sentence Thursday #499
Random Reads #485
First Lines Friday #512
Book Blogger Hop #178
The Reward Challenge Update #494
Wheel of TBR #41
How Well I Stuck to It #346
Wrote that Review Update #343

Week 9 Reviews:
Regression

Random:

OK, so I got 18 posts in 7 days, which is pretty good considering how tired I was this past week, plus the news that I'm going to be writing a blog post about soon (which I haven't done sooner because of the aforementioned tiredness). But I did read a good amount of books, given what this week was like, so I'm happy with that! What about you guys? Happy reading!

So this week I want to read The Diviners and Grimspace.

Evie O'Neill has been exiled from her boring old hometown and shipped off to the bustling streets of New York City—and she is pos-i-tute-ly ecstatic. It's 1926, and New York is filled with speakeasies, Ziegfeld girls, and rakish pickpockets. The only catch is that she has to live with her uncle Will and his unhealthy obsession with the occult.

Evie worries he'll discover her darkest secret: a supernatural power that has only brought her trouble so far. But when the police find a murdered girl branded with a cryptic symbol and Will is called to the scene, Evie realizes her gift could help catch a serial killer.

As Evie jumps headlong into a dance with a murderer, other stories unfold in the city that never sleeps. A young man named Memphis is caught between two worlds. A chorus girl named Theta is running from her past. A student named Jericho hides a shocking secret. And unknown to all, something dark and evil has awakened.
As the carrier of a rare gene, Sirantha Jax has the ability to jump ships through grimspace-a talent which makes her a highly prized navigator for the Corp. Then a crash landing kills everyone on board, leaving Jax in a jail cell with no memory of the crash. But her fun's not over. A group of rogue fighters frees her...for a price: her help in overthrowing the established order.

Sunday, March 7, 2021

Kathy Bell Author Page

The Story: I won Regression from LibraryThing, I read it, and I loved it! And then I had to reread it and then read the 2nd book when I got the 2nd book. And now I had to read all 3 books now that I've been itching to finish the series. And it was just fantastic! 


Series: Infinion.

Saturday, March 6, 2021

Week 9 Reviews: Regression, Evolussion, Revolussion



From Goodreads:
Fourteen-year-old Adya Jordan is too good to be true. Her skills with people, information, and technology make her the perfect new intern at megacorp Three Eleven, the company which covertly controls the world in an alternate 1985. Could this be because this is not her first lifetime? Or even her second? Or does it have more to do with the strange sequence of DNA in her cells?

Find out what makes Adya tick as she and a group of elite scientists strive to prevent a global disaster. 

Twenty-six years of planning could not prepare them for this. The world is well aware of the ongoing efforts of megacorp Three Eleven after they went public in 1985 about an impending asteroid impact coming in 2011. What they don't know about is the new species of human evolving within the walls of the corporation. 

Company figurehead Dawn Ingram has not only a secret identity, but also a secret entity within her genes. This strand of alien DNA has been passed on to the fifty-three children infiltrating Three Eleven initiatives, carrying with them the lifetime memories and knowledge of their parents, and something more. Two of these children make an alarming discovery on a Jovian moon, setting in motion a cascading series of events which will tear apart the team which has worked together for decades. 

Corporate control of information and technology keeps the world complacent as Three Eleven proceeds with their plans, unchallenged with the exception of underground journalist Stew Singleton. His Stewlogs shout out to those who will listen, demanding people ask more questions, look more closely, and wrest back some of the power they had ceded to Three Eleven in the panic of '85. Although he does not work hand-in-hand with them, he does applaud the efforts of terrorist group Anvolussion. A group whose leader, Lavrentios Alexopoulos, has gone missing after a bombing went wrong. 

Nothing in the world is quite like Nicholas Weaver expected to find when he lay himself down to die for the eleventh time, awakening again as a twelve-year-old searching for his lost love. He finds the fruits of his labour have borne unexpected seeds, but is unsure the future is safe even with his monumental efforts. The fate of the planet might be out of all of their hands. Sequel to bestselling Regression. 

Dawn Ingram, Peter Merten and the Three Eleven team have worked for decades to prepare for November 11, 2011, even though they did not know what they were preparing for. Now that the future has arrived, they face an enemy unlike anything they have imagined, and find help from places they never dreamt of.

Join Nicholas Weaver, Stew Singleton, Avery and Ashton Hansen and Dawn Ingram as they fight the advance of the Effigee by using the alien technology against the aliens themselves. When the invaders arrive, an ancient device gives Dawn and the plumans the final edge to win the war...but at what cost?

My Review:
I had a great time reading these books! I've loved this series ever since I won a copy of Regression, I loved the science and that ending was just so darned satisfying. And then I read Evolussion, which was a pretty great sequel. And for some reason, I didn't read Revolussion when it came out, so I had to finish the series, and since it had been so long, I had to start from the beginning!

One thing that I just find so delightful, is that book 3 came out November 11th, 2011. Which is the date that this series revolves around, why the company is named Three Eleven. So that was just a great little detail about this series! 

I think I enjoyed the first book the most, and each subsequent book, I enjoyed less. I think it's because I enjoyed the science, and with each book, there was more magic, with the addition of White Buffalo Woman, and I just didn't enjoy that all meshing together, it just didn't work for me.  

Adya-then Dawn's story was just fantastic to read. The first book, it's mainly Adya's perspective, with some of Nicholas's journal entries. And with each book, we got more and more perspectives, as the world grew, and the plot advanced. But it did focus right in on Adya in the end, and it was pretty bittersweet, but it worked together really well.

I had a great time reading this series and I'm so glad that I did, it was so entertaining! 

Author: Kathy Bell
Series: Infinion #1, 2, 3
First Read: 2009, 2010
Second Read: 2010
Read: February 28th, March 1st, 2nd, 2021
Source: Own, Ebook.bike
Reason Why: Rereading, and I had to finish out the series! And they're Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2021 Books and Revolussion is a End of Series 2021 Book!
Publisher: Northern Sanctum Press
Published: July 1st 2009, August 4th 2010, November 11th 2011

Regression:
5/5 Hearts
5/5 Books
5/5 Stars








Evolussion:
5/5 Hearts
5/5 Books
5/5 Stars








Revolussion:
5/5 Hearts
5/5 Books
5/5 Stars

Wednesday, March 3, 2021

WWW Wednesday #516, March 3rd

To play along, just answer the following three (3) questions…

• What are you currently reading?
• What did you recently finish reading?
• What do you think you'll read next?

Thanks to MizB of Should Be Writing now A Daily Rhythm for starting this meme! And thanks now to Taking on a World of Words for reviving it! 

I'm currently reading Million Dollar Demon, and I'm loving it!
I read Revolussion, and it was a really great ending to the series! 
I'm going to be reading The Segonian, and I can't wait, I've read the teaser chapters, and I need to know what happens next! 

What about you guys? Happy reading!

Tuesday, March 2, 2021

Teaser Tuesday #516, March 2nd

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by Ambrosia of The Purple Booker. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
  • Grab your current read
  • Open to a random page
  • Share two (2) "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page
  • BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn't give too much away! You don't want to ruin the book for others!)
  • Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
Today's teaser comes from Revolussion by Kathy Bell, page 152.

"Imagine yourself as air, inside a balloon. You are held within the perimeter of the balloon, and those boundaries are your body."

I can't tell is this is relaxing to me or creepy! What about you guys? Happy reading!