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The Reckoning by Marisa Noelle – Review & Tour

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The Reckoning by Marisa Noelle – Review & Tour

 

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THE FIGHT IS NOT OVER.
A NEW NEMESIS HAS AWOKEN.

Sinister visions of an evil entity with looming yellow eyes haunt Silver’s dreams, threatening to destroy the new world she and her friends have created. The terrifying omens push Silver to experiment with her abilities, but awaken a burgeoning thirst for more power.

As Silver walks a fine line between good and evil, her friends become wary of her intimidating abilities. She finds understanding in a sympathetic newcomer, but their deepening friendship drives an even deeper wedge between Silver and her suspicious friends.

Tragedy strikes during preparations for the final stand, bringing a terrible choice. Grief drives Silver toward reckless actions that may doom the final battle. Can she repair the relationships with her friends and control her powers before her vision becomes reality?

 

 

Review:

The Reckoning by Marisa Noelle is the final book in her The Unadjusteds trilogy. Refresher:  The Unajusteds is a YA Dystopian story, with Silver Melody, our wonderful teenage heroine.  Silver is very strong, fast and has abilities that make her special. In a world with most people having been altered with enhancements, Silver was one of those that were unadjusted, but her powerful abilities continue to grow.

In the last book, Silver and the team managed to defeat the evil Earl, and rescue her mother (though she is still catatonic).  All Silver cares about the finding a way to use her healing power to bring her mother out of her unconscious state.  With her father away to find a woman who knows how to bring his wife out of the state she is in, Silver is determined to help her mother.  But things start happening, the crops and land are suffering, and they need Silver to help clean and heal the crops.  Besides working on her mother, Silver is having horrific dreams every night, and she is worried if these are just nightmares, or are they a vision of what is yet to come.

Silver begins to spend time with Eli (who was saved by Silver against his torture by Earl), as he convinces her to experiment together to increase and learn more about her powers.  As her powers begin to increase, even to some dangerous levels, Silver becomes more and more belligerent against her friends, since she just wants to help her mother, and experiment on her powers.  Her friends and the president become concerned at her reckless actions, and she turns more and more to Eli.  When the nightmares get more violent, especially the “yellow eyes”, she begins to realize that someone (Eli? Entity?)  is trying to steal her powers, and her visions are real.  Silver will need to ensure her friends and team that is she is herself again and they need to be ready for the upcoming battle that is forthcoming. I loved seeing most of her friends/team from the previous books, especially Matt.

What follows is an exciting and intense adventure that once again pits Silver and her friends against an evil powerful and dangerous entity, as well as the creatures, birds, animals, hellhounds they come across.   From start to finish, this was filled with action, danger, violence, with a number of tragic events along the way.   To tell too much more would be spoilers, and would ruin it for you.

The Reckoning was a very well written, intense, violent and emotional story line that held my attention throughout.   Marisa Noelle did a fabulous job giving us an exciting story, wonderful heroine (I loved Silver, as she made a great heroine) and great secondary characters. The ending was exciting, wild and emotional and a fitting finale; though it was definitely a surprise epilogue.  

Reviewed by Barb

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Marisa Noelle is the writer of middle grade & young adult novels in the genres of science-fiction, fantasy & mental health including The Shadow Keepers, The Unadjusteds Trilogy (The Unadjusteds, The Rise of the Altereds, & The Reckoning), and The Mermaid Chronicles – Secrets of the Deep.
She is a mentor for the Write Mentor program that helps aspiring MG & YA authors. With dual citizenship, Marisa has lived on both sides of the Atlantic and uses settings in both the USA and UK as inspiration for her novels.
When she’s not writing or reading or watching movies, she enjoys swimming. In the pool she likes to imagine she could be a mermaid and become part of some of her make-believe words.
Despite being an avid bookworm from the time she could hold a book, being an author came as a bit of a surprise to her as she was a bit of a science geek at school. She lives in Woking, UK with her husband and three children. You can find her on Twitter @MarisaNoelle77 or her website www.MarisaNoelle.com

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The Rise of the Altereds by Marisa Noelle – a Review

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The Rise of the Altereds by Marisa Noelle – a Review

 

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GENETIC MODIFICATION HAS BEEN OUTLAWED.

THE REMAINING ALTEREDS WANT REVENGE.

When Silver’s mother is abducted by a rogue scientist who releases a deadly new virus on the populace, she and her now unadjusted friends are faced with an impossible choice.

They can hide from the virus for as long as possible, or they can regain their abilities and take the battle to the mountains. But Silver doesn’t count on a new, rogue power growing within her. She can’t control it and soon all her friends are in danger. And there is something evil hiding in the snowy Sierras.

Can Silver learn to control her new, deadly power in time to rescue her mother as well as defeat the one who seeks to destroy them all?

 

 

Review:

The Rise of the Altereds by Marisa Noelle is the 2nd book in her The Unadjusteds trilogy.  When I read the first book, I wasn’t sure that there would be more, and I was happy to find out that this is now a trilogy.  Refresher:  The Unajusteds is a YA Dystopian story, with Silver Melody, our wonderful teenage heroine.  Silver is very strong, fast and has abilities that make her special. In a world with most people having been altered with enhancements, Silver was one of those that were unadjusted.  At the end of the last book, Silver and her friends defeated the President and freed those altered and unadjusted.

In The Rise of the Altereds, Silver’s father is working on a vaccine to fix those altered back to normal.  Silver, Matt, Paige, and the team is still together, but another evil presence has taken over the role of leader (Earl) using a virus that is killing everyone, as well as creating evil entities and creatures to destroy the world as they know it. Silver’s mother is still in captivity, and they all get together to try and rescue her mother. Silver’s father is able to give them back their altered abilities to help fight the horrors they will face. Silver is the most powerful of all of them, especially with an unknown dark ability that she has not learned how to use.  Along the way, Silver will pick up some more abilities just by touching someone, which includes seeing into the future. 

What follows is an exciting and intense adventure that once again pits Silver and her friends against so many dangerous situations, including making sure they do not catch the virus, as well as the creatures, birds, hellhounds they come across.   From start to finish, this was filled with action, danger, violence, as I held my breath to see who will survive.  To tell too much more would be spoilers, and ruin it for you.

The Rise of the Altereds was a very well written, intense and emotional story line that held my attention throughout.   Marisa Noelle did a fabulous job giving us an exciting story, wonderful heroine and great secondary characters. The ending was exciting, wild and emotional.  I loved Silver, as she made a great heroine. I look forward to the final book in this trilogy.  I wholly suggest if you like an action-packed dystopian theme, you should be reading this series.

Reviewed by Barb

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The Unadjusteds by Marisa Noelle – a Review

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The Unadjusteds by Marisa Noelle – a Review

 

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Sixteen-year-old Silver Melody lives in a world where 80% of the population has modified their DNA. Known as the altereds, those people now possess enhancements like wings, tails, and increased strength or intelligence. Although Silver’s parents created the nanite pill used to deliver these genetic modifications, Silver is proud of her unadjusted state.

However, when the president declares all unadjusteds must take a nanite, Silver has no choice but to flee the city with her father and some friends to prevent the extinction of the unadjusteds.

With Silver’s mother in prison for treason, Silver’s father is the unadjusteds’ only hope at finding a cure. But time is running out as Silver’s father is captured by the president’s almost immortal army. Vicious hellhounds are on Silver’s trail, and her only chance to recover her father involves teaming up with a new group of unlikely friends before all humanity is lost.

 

 

 

Review:

The Unadjusteds by Marisa Noelle is a YA Dystopian story.  Silver Melody, our 16-year-old heroine, lives in a world where most people have been altered, being given pills that enhanced them, such as bulk, strength, wings, telekinetic, etc.  Silver is one of the 20% population that are considered Unadjusteds (did not take the pills).

Silver’s parents helped create the nanite pills that alter people, and they are forced to work for the evil President Bear, who is determined to make everyone altered, even if many die from taking those pills.  Silver lost her best friend after she had taken the pill, and swore that she would never take the pill.  Silver is well known among the people, as her mother was accused of treason, because she did not want to create more pills.  Despite not taking pills, Silver is very strong and fast, as she trains hard and can beat most people.    When President Bear decides to force the remaining 20% to take the pills, Silver runs away with her friend Matt, and along the way they find more unadjusted people, as well as altered, who want to stop the evil president.

What follows is an exciting and intense adventure that pits Silver and her new friends against so many dangerous situations, including massive altered soldiers, or the deadly hellhounds that President Bear had his scientists create.  Silver, Matt, Joe, Paige, Emma and others are willing to do whatever it takes to try to free Silver’s parents, and allow them to create a cure for all.  But to do so they have to find a way to get past the enemies, find her parents, and kill the evil president.

I really liked Silver, as she was a great heroine, and the secondary characters working with her were an awesome team.  The last third of the book escalated the danger and violence, holding our breaths to see who will survive.  To tell too much more would be spoilers, and ruin it for you. 

The Unadjusteds was a well written, intense and emotional story line that kept my attention from start to finish.  I was surprised how much I enjoyed this story. Marisa Noelle did a fabulous job giving us an exciting story, wonderful heroine and great secondary characters. The ending was wild and emotional, and though it is not noted to be continuing, I feel it left things open for another book.   I wholly suggest if you like an action-packed dystopian theme, you should be reading The Unajusteds.

Reviewed by Barb

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