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Copper Girl (2013)

by Jennifer Allis Provost(Favorite Author)

3.4 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1939392020 (ISBN13: 9781939392022)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Spence City

series

Copper Legacy

review 1: Seriously, what a boring and such a nonsense book! So, the main character, Sara, is from the most powerful family yielding of magic! A such powerful magic that is no powerful at all! Well, atleast till the end of the book, but even so! And we have those powerful wizards.. but they lost to mundanes (no magical people)! Really? Powerful wizards where, then? Anyway, then we have fey. And Sara's mother is a Seelie Court, but where is her power? Where is her court and people? I don't get this! A family with magical powers, that can't do nothing! And the family has the so powerful Raven that shows up everytime there's a moment of strife, so..with all that happened with the family and the war, wasn't something of real needs for help? And all the time the Rave... moren could help her save her brother, something her 'powerless queen of Seelie Court' knew, but never shared the information with her daughter.I don't know.. the story has so many wholes, I just can't list it all, here! Not even worth of it!For me, the writer just wrote a bad version of X-Men mixing it with a fey weak world!
review 2: Copper Girl. Jennifer Allis Provost. ARC provided by author. Well, I've had a great weekend, two paranormal books that have been a real treat to read with both comprising of something very different to the norm. (this one and Relic, Renee Collins. )There's a straight-into-the-story feel about this book, with further revelations about the worlds being revealed as the story continues. We meet Sara who seems like an ordinary girl, on her lunch break sitting in her car. She thinks she's dreaming when a beautiful man begins to make love to her. Turns out he's real, a Silver elf from a parallel world. That's the best way I can describe it – once humans and those with magic lived together peacefully but then the humans got scared, or maybe it was the commerce problems, whatever- the humans outlawed the use of magic and Sara's father and brother disappeared, taken suddenly by the government. Now she tries very carefully to hide her magical abilities. Once she meets Micah though, he shows her the Otherworld and they end up fighting to rescue and protect her family. Its a world peopled with machines, drones that are programmed to spy on every facet of daily life, friends who may be anything but, people afraid to speak or trust and the government controlling every facet of daily life. For breaches – very minor – the penalties can be severe. Being 4 hours late for work leads to loss of job and bad references, and there's always the danger one may get caught up by something seemingly innocuous that would lead to death being the punishment. Being with Micah is anything but innocuous but Sara quickly falls for him, feeling a connection beyond anything she's know before. Its a fight for life, secrets long hidden get revealed, the Otherworld shows Sara things she never imagined, with both good and bad people, and the danger to Sara and her remaining family is escalating throughout the novel. Once she's accepted that Micah is part of her life though there's no going back. Its an amazing world Jennifer has created, I love the idea of simply stepping through into a another world, and of course its easy to believe a government would do something like this. Its almost a 1984 feel in the constant spying and regulation of people's everyday lives, and the ever present threat of punishment for breaches of rules. I enjoyed this book – though I love my vampires and shape-shifters its a treat to find something so very different and fresh feeling. Though there is a romance between Sara and Micah its not a huge part of the book, more a (silver!) thread that runs through it, connecting up incidents and providing a forum for exchange of knowledge. I love Micah, the way he was so protective of Sara, “my Sara” he calls her. The gradual introduction to the alternative worlds worked well, I was able to pick up the story slowly and work out how it all fitted together. Great characters but I did find them a bit hard to really get into, didn't really understand their motivations and feelings at first. Usually with a book like this I'd get totally lost into another world, but for some reason I didn't here. I'm not sure why, except maybe its something to do with the lack of empathy I felt for Sara. She certainly grew on my as the story continued but I think I needed to have more of a connection to her earlier – that may have helped. Sometimes when its the first book in a series though this happens to me, there's so much new information being brought forward that it takes me time to assimilate it, and to get hooked into the characters. Anyway this is book one in a series. It ends neatly with all the plots tied up and with the opening for the next book cleverly introduced. I'll certainly look forward to reading that, and rejoining Sara and Micah in their next adventure. Stars: almost a five, if I’d have felt closer to the characters earlier it would have been but it's a definite solid four. less

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