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3.57 AVERAGE
3.57 AVERAGE
See my full review at : The Ramblings of a Book Addict: First Frost by Jennifer Estep http://ramblingbookaddict.blogspot.com/2016/03/first-frost-by-jennifer-estep.html?spref=tw
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I am Gwen Frost, and I have a Gypsy gift. It's called psychometry - that's a fancy way of saying that I see images in my head and get flashes of other people's memories off almost everything I touch, even guys. My gift makes me kind of nosy. Okay, okay, maybe a lot nosy--to the point of obsession sometimes. I want to know everything about everyone around me. But even I don't want to know the secrets my friend Paige is hiding or the terrible loss that will send me to a new school - Mythos Academy, where the teachers aren't preparing us for the SATs, but to battle Reapers of Chaos. Now I have no friends and no idea how my gift fits in with all these warrior whiz kids. The only thing I do know is that my life is never, ever going to be the same. . .
I decided to start reading this series because I received a copy of the latest book for free. I have been wanting to read these books for a while now but had never gotten around to reading them. Now this book is technically .05 it's a novella. So this review won't necessarily be very long.
Okay this book introduces you to the main character of the Mythos Academy Series, Gwen Frost. I have found one problem I have with this series seeing as I am currently reading the 3rd book. The author is seriously repetitive. Like I am in the 3rd book and she still goes into detail of Gwen's powers in every.single.book. Please go on the assumption that I have read the previous books.
Also everything that has happened in the 2 previous books is still gone over in the 3rd book. Okay really? how many times are you gonna have to tell me this??? that being said I still give this a solid 4 stars as a series. It would be a 5 star if she didn't spend all the time repeating herself.
When she starts explaining from the previous books, I find myself skimming over those to get to the actual point. I mean really? Seriously. Don't tell me again. Just no. NO. How about no.
I honestly meant this to be a small review but it kinda turned into a rant over the repetitive quality that happens. Sorry guys. Anyway this novella gives the backstory of Gwen. She is a Gypsy. Please for goodness sake do not call it "her Gypsy gift" or "psychometry". I have heard that 50 millions times. We get it. Anyway I'm gonna call it her powers cause that isn't worn out yet. She has the ability to touch any object or person and get the feelings they had or what happened when they used the object etc. She can see all their secrets. SHHH..
We start out when she is at public school and asks to use a girl's hairbrush. These kids at her school know that something is different about her that she is able to find any of their missing objects for a fee. Yep.
Anyway she asks to use a girl's hairbrush. Her name is Paige. When she touches the girl's hairbrush she sees something very bad. Paige's stepdad would brush her hair and then he would rape her. Gwen is so upset about what she sees that she starts screaming and keeps screaming even after she passes out. Keep on kicking him girl.
Gwen wakes up in the hospital and tells her mom what she had seen. Gwen's mom, Grace, is a police officer who is also a Gypsy. Her mom's power is the ability to tell when people are lying or telling the truth. She knows that Gwen is telling the truth about this and arrests Paige's stepdad. On Grace's way home from work she is t-boned by a drunk driver and killed instantly.
This book ends with Professor Metis coming from Mythos Academy to Gwen's grandmother's house (who is also a Gypsy with the power to see the future) to take Gwen to Mythos. Basically that's all for this book.
I give this novella a 3 out of 5 stars.
all formatting is lost when my review goes to goodreads.
I am Gwen Frost, and I have a Gypsy gift. It's called psychometry - that's a fancy way of saying that I see images in my head and get flashes of other people's memories off almost everything I touch, even guys. My gift makes me kind of nosy. Okay, okay, maybe a lot nosy--to the point of obsession sometimes. I want to know everything about everyone around me. But even I don't want to know the secrets my friend Paige is hiding or the terrible loss that will send me to a new school - Mythos Academy, where the teachers aren't preparing us for the SATs, but to battle Reapers of Chaos. Now I have no friends and no idea how my gift fits in with all these warrior whiz kids. The only thing I do know is that my life is never, ever going to be the same. . .
I decided to start reading this series because I received a copy of the latest book for free. I have been wanting to read these books for a while now but had never gotten around to reading them. Now this book is technically .05 it's a novella. So this review won't necessarily be very long.
Okay this book introduces you to the main character of the Mythos Academy Series, Gwen Frost. I have found one problem I have with this series seeing as I am currently reading the 3rd book. The author is seriously repetitive. Like I am in the 3rd book and she still goes into detail of Gwen's powers in every.single.book. Please go on the assumption that I have read the previous books.
Also everything that has happened in the 2 previous books is still gone over in the 3rd book. Okay really? how many times are you gonna have to tell me this??? that being said I still give this a solid 4 stars as a series. It would be a 5 star if she didn't spend all the time repeating herself.
When she starts explaining from the previous books, I find myself skimming over those to get to the actual point. I mean really? Seriously. Don't tell me again. Just no. NO. How about no.
I honestly meant this to be a small review but it kinda turned into a rant over the repetitive quality that happens. Sorry guys. Anyway this novella gives the backstory of Gwen. She is a Gypsy. Please for goodness sake do not call it "her Gypsy gift" or "psychometry". I have heard that 50 millions times. We get it. Anyway I'm gonna call it her powers cause that isn't worn out yet. She has the ability to touch any object or person and get the feelings they had or what happened when they used the object etc. She can see all their secrets. SHHH..
We start out when she is at public school and asks to use a girl's hairbrush. These kids at her school know that something is different about her that she is able to find any of their missing objects for a fee. Yep.
Anyway she asks to use a girl's hairbrush. Her name is Paige. When she touches the girl's hairbrush she sees something very bad. Paige's stepdad would brush her hair and then he would rape her. Gwen is so upset about what she sees that she starts screaming and keeps screaming even after she passes out. Keep on kicking him girl.
Gwen wakes up in the hospital and tells her mom what she had seen. Gwen's mom, Grace, is a police officer who is also a Gypsy. Her mom's power is the ability to tell when people are lying or telling the truth. She knows that Gwen is telling the truth about this and arrests Paige's stepdad. On Grace's way home from work she is t-boned by a drunk driver and killed instantly.
This book ends with Professor Metis coming from Mythos Academy to Gwen's grandmother's house (who is also a Gypsy with the power to see the future) to take Gwen to Mythos. Basically that's all for this book.
I give this novella a 3 out of 5 stars.
First Frost was kind of interesting. I like the magic the main character had (reminds me of The Dead Zone show). I think this was more of a prologue chapter than a short story, though.
Eine kleine, nette Zusammenfassung über die Zeit bevor Gwen auf die Mythos Akademie gekommen ist. Allerdings erfährt man nicht großartig etwas Neues, da man all das auch beim lesen der Hauptreihe erfährt. Also vielleicht eine nette Sache, bevor man mit der eigentlichen Reihe beginnt.
I rushed to read this after loving Touch of Frost but was disappointed to find that all of the plot had been covered in TOF already... First Frost is as beautifully written as the rest of Jennifer Estep's books, but there simply wasn't enough new material for me to really enjoy it....
I can't wait for Kiss of Frost! Roll on November...
I can't wait for Kiss of Frost! Roll on November...
I am a huge fan of Jennifer Estep’s Elemental Assassin series but didn’t really know she wrote anything else.
The Mythos Academy series is about Gwen Frost, a gypsy who has the ability to see people’s memories after touching their personal items. After she suffers a personal loss she is sent to a school for kids with special gifts—and it is there that she realizes that she isn’t the only one who can do things that seem out of the ordinary.
I can say that I will continue the series, and have already started on book#1, but when I am reading Mythos Academy the writing doesn’t feel like it’s coming from the same author that wrote the Elemental Assassin series. This is a YA series so that can be the reason. It’s not that I think it’s written badly, just choppy in some places…but the main character is like I said a youth, of 17 years old so that is probably the reason why.
The main character is likeable, and the academy seems like an interesting place, so I look forward to the rest of the series.
The Mythos Academy series is about Gwen Frost, a gypsy who has the ability to see people’s memories after touching their personal items. After she suffers a personal loss she is sent to a school for kids with special gifts—and it is there that she realizes that she isn’t the only one who can do things that seem out of the ordinary.
I can say that I will continue the series, and have already started on book#1, but when I am reading Mythos Academy the writing doesn’t feel like it’s coming from the same author that wrote the Elemental Assassin series. This is a YA series so that can be the reason. It’s not that I think it’s written badly, just choppy in some places…but the main character is like I said a youth, of 17 years old so that is probably the reason why.
The main character is likeable, and the academy seems like an interesting place, so I look forward to the rest of the series.
It's an interesting preview into how everything started for Gwen. Her life before the academy. I'm glad we got it!