PRAISE FOR TREEHUGGER
Please check out the super review of Treehugger on AwkwardGeeks.com by Lynn Scanlon!
What did PureGeekery.net have to say
aboutTreehugger ?
(Hint: Claire Ranieri loved it!)
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PRAISE FOR RISKTAKER...
Please check out the super review of
Risktaker on AwkwardGeeks.com by Lynn Scanlon!
What did PureGeekery.net have to say
about Risktaker ?
(Hint: Claire Ranieri loved it!)
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Amanda of Amanda's Writings recorded a
video review of Risktaker! (below)
TREEHUGGER: "I read this story in less than 24 hours. I could not put it down. The fantasy. The world I was taken to brings me to a place I wish I could stay. I am 28 years old but totally related to the heroine. I remember feeling out of place ridiculed and isolated as does Chloe on Earth. Her alternate world was her element, my 14 yr old self had many fantasy places. This story is nothing like the Twilight-esque fantasy world many YA authors are creating. This one is a whole other world, literally. Acceptance is something humans crave and sometimes its not on Earth where we may find it. Allow yourself to escape to place where you can be whoever you want to be. I look forward to the next book and I have to say it- George Lucas watch out another visonary is here!" - Nicole, Amazon reader
RISKTAKER: "I am so desperate for more I don't know what to do! Star is in the cusp of some really exciting action and I really can't wait to read the next book! Definitely my new favorite series!" -Lauren M., Amazon.com
TREEHUGGER: Amanda's Writings Book Reviews
TREEHUGGER: "...I absolutely loved everything about this book! The author's writing style was amazing. She seamlessly switched from present to past in a way that made it so easy to follow! I also love the characters and how the perspective changed. First we feel so bad for Chloe, beginning at the slumber party, to her depression. When the perspective changes, we can see how other people feel and how minuscule her problems really are. The author jumps right into the story, but gives the backround info in a way that does not sound listy and boring. Seeing the main character pick herself up both on Earth and Jacondor, and take control of her double life is amazing to read...." Read the rest of Aijah's 5-star review of Treehugger on her blog, Fairy Page or on Goodreads.com.
RISKTAKER: "I read the first two books in this series and
absolutely loved them! And this second one was even better
than the first, as I got more into the different worlds
Star & co go to. And as a romantic, really enjoyed the development
of Star's love relationship..." -Tiina Walsh, Amazon.com
TREEHUGGER: "If Rowling had been influenced by Lucas and focused on the character's point of view rather than taking a global perspective and colored her work with a more typical sense of teen angst than Harry's vengeance driven rage, she might have produced a work like this. Ms Alwang begins the main portion of her narrative after three lifelong friends grow together as a team of interdimensional operatives, and starts describing their lives after they are separated. By solidly depicting how they fail to function when separated, she delivers on the impact of their group dynamic through revealing the effects of its absence. This is a terrific adventure story and agreat book about the loss and rebuilding of friendships." - Denis McCarthy, Amazon
TREEHUGGER: "Kea Alwang's writing style made the entire adventure wholly believable, fun (or gut-wrenching, but really, there's a review for another day), and allowed the characters to linger long after you close the book for the moment or for the last time. The amount of detail in the worlds and characters give them an almost nostalgic quality while also creating places that I would have never thought of--and put a new twist on the old theme of teenage isolation and resistance to change.
With her friends off in the far corners of the multiverses, the main character Chloe (known intergalacticaly as Star) who has never been able to relate to her high-school peers (due to being taught about concepts far beyond humanity's reach), is starting to question why she protects the self-serving and hurtful race she belongs to; and when meeting her friends again, something has changed in their relationship dynamics, one of the only things Chloe was clinging to. While group dynamics mostly mend, I can't help but think that tensions will soon soar, creating a highly interesting plot point for the books said to come." - Maureen D., Amazon
TREEHUGGER: "Great Read..for teenagers and adults alike. This book is not only heartwarming but fun the story takes you to another world ..another dimension..and holds you there to the point where you think your in that world for real. Someone should make this into a movie." -MnM31, BN.com
RISKTAKER: "I read Treehugger and Risktaker back to back and thoroughly enjoyed both! I'm looking forward to reading the next one. I can't stop thinking about the characters of this series and wondering what is going to happen next!" -Marjorie, Amazon.com
TREEHUGGER: "I enjoyed reading Treehugger it was a nice surprise given it was a low cost Kindle novel. It managed to transport you a different world that is not unlike our world where a person is given a status, is prejudged, and can't brake out of their given class assignment." - John Kopp, Amazon.com
TREEHUGGER: Review from Krystal Larson of the book review blog, Live to Read.
TREEHUGGER: "The author's writing style is delightful in its detailed, rich descriptions of other worlds and their beings. Her characters come alive, and I look forward to learning more about the many layers and elements of her multiverse in the next books of this engaging series." - Michele B., Amazon.com
RISKTAKER: "What I loved:
-There was TONS of stuff going on! Never a dull moment!
-NO INSTALOVE! Thank you :)
-I got to know the characters a lot more. I fell in love
with the characters in this book.
-Great description that never bogged down the story
-It went from really funny to really intense and back again
-Really fast read!" --Amanda, Goodreads.com
RISKTAKER: "I had been impressed by Kea Alwang's freshman outing, Treehugger, but Risktaker is a rich, bittersweet expansion on the complicated worlds of Star of Jacondor. An intense exploration of the angstful teenage battle between nostalgia and truth, played out in a manner reminiscent of Lev Grossman's The Magicians, and oddly reminiscent of Ursula LeGuin's work. Ms Alwang is becoming a Young Adult author to watch." --Denis J. McCarthy, Amazon.com
RISKTAKER: "Star (Chloe) and her friends are back in this fast paced sci-fi adventure to deal with both new and old villains. The book has many exciting story lines and the author expertly weaves them in to a wonderful multiverse tapestry. I had trouble putting it down!" -JLK, Amazon.com