Unusual Awakening is Book 1 of the Rylee Everley series. It is suitable for Young Adults aged 13 and over.
Rylee’s father is off to serve his country once again – so he must leave his wife and three daughters. He leaves Rylee as his second-in-command while he’s gone. Can she rise to the challenge or will the responsibility be more than she can bear?
When this book first landed on my desk for review, I couldn’t wait to get my teeth into it – I mean, just look at that cover! Sadly for me, my joy was to be short lived. Although there are many breathtaking scenes described in the book and it’s well enough written, I just wasn’t able to muster up an abundance of enthusiasm in the book.
I have to confess that I felt sorry for Rylee having to grow up fast and shoulder much of the responsibility for her younger siblings as well as her mother. As an author myself, I get the sense that this is largely a fact based book given a fictional twist.
If I had the option to go back and start this book again, I wouldn’t bother to use the Text-to-speech option on my Kindle because Rylee’s name never seems to be pronounced right in my opinion.
I also didn’t like the ending of the book one bit. I get the idea of leaving books open-ended so that you can go back and pick up where you left off at a later date, but this book just feels like the author ran out of steam at the end and published a half finished book because there is no real sense of closure for any of the characters.
Then, the cherry on the top of the cake came in the form of the “About the Author” section at the back of the book. This tends to be where authors climb down to connect with their readers and although it contained personal details, it was done in a cold, detatched way, complete with no hint to the author’s name.
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