Grounded The Grounded Trilogy Book 1 (Audible Audio Edition) G P Ching Valerie Gilbert Carpe Luna Publishing Books
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Faith kept me plain. Science made me complicated.
In Hemlock Hollow, life isn't easy, but it is simple. Things in my community haven't changed much in over 300 years, since the time my Amish ancestors came to what is now the Green Republic. I milk my cow by hand, make fresh bread every morning, and hope to be courted by Jeremiah, a boy I've known since childhood.
When my father falls ill, the English doctor says a hospital outside the wall can heal him. Jeremiah convinces me to go on rumspringa, to experience the outside world as an Englisher in order to be closer to my father during his recovery. Others have gone before me. They claim it's an adventure. But adventure turns to horror as an ordinary light switch thrusts me into a new world, and revelations about my personal history make me question everything I believe.
All my life I've worked to be simple. I can't pretend anymore. Nothing about me is simple.
Grounded The Grounded Trilogy Book 1 (Audible Audio Edition) G P Ching Valerie Gilbert Carpe Luna Publishing Books
I love genre crossovers, and this is great one. It's Beverly Lewis meets Veronica Roth, with a bit of Stephen King's Firestarter thrown in for good measure. While I'm not a huge fan of first person point of view, this one was done so well that I really didn't notice it. Once the action starts, you can NOT put this book down. I finished the book in a matter of hours and will probably get the sequels. One nice thing is that you can stop with book 1 if you want to (just don't read the teaser prologue for the next book, and you can believe the characters are going to live happily ever after). I really dislike books that end with cliffhangers just to make you have to buy the next book to find out what happens, but this book has an ending and a good one. Grounded is well-written, well edited, and a great addition to the Indie market. I wish all Indie books were this well produced.Warning: those who lean very left politically and who believe in the honesty and necessity of the current environmental movement will probably be insulted by this book,since the environmental politics of our current era is the bad guy in this dystopia. I happen to agree with the political sentiment expressed in the book, so I enjoyed it, but others may not so much. This book also expresses strong faith, but is not necessarily "Christian."
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Grounded The Grounded Trilogy Book 1 (Audible Audio Edition) G P Ching Valerie Gilbert Carpe Luna Publishing Books Reviews
I was tempted to write "Shocking", "Electrifying", or some such. I might still before the end of the review.
Dystopian futures have been done to near-death in recent years. I'd gotten quite tired of reading them. It's hard to find a new and interesting take on the genre. Then I ran across "Grounded" and its two follow-ons. I read "Grounded" almost in one sitting.
This book is hard to put down!
Take a young Amish woman used to living her simple, and isolated from society, life and drop her into the "Englisher" world, you already have a fish-out-of water scenario. Take that world and turn the readers expectations of "Green" politics on their heads, and you amp up (sorry!) the tension (*sigh*, I see how this review is going to go.) Add in the resistance(!), savage gangs living on the edges of society, and then have Lydia, the heroine, be the result of advanced genetic manipulation and the story simply takes off and doesn't let up.
The story takes Lydia, a young woman taught to be simple, to be plain (as in not attracting attention to herself) and has her deal with the fact that electricity can pour through her, and from her, with great destructive force. How she copes with this, survives an un-asked for inclusion in a fight against an oppressive government, manages an impossible-to-resist attraction to a young man with exactly the same powers as she, and yet stay true to who she is and her beliefs is a writing sensation.
I didn't move on to Books 2 and 3 on finishing "Grounded" simply because I wanted to sit with the characters as I'd come to know them through the story. The books will be there when I'm ready for them.
I will start with the good. This was a fun and fast paced, dystopian, young adult novel. The characters were likeable and well-written. There wasn't a slow moment in the story, which is great.
Lydia and Jeremiah are two Amish, 17 year old kids. When Lydia's father has a stroke and is sneaked into Crater City under an assumed name, Lydia and Jeremiah receive permission to go on Rumspringa, so Lydia can be with her dad.
Dystopian World It was a world filled with consumers and pollution. A nuclear accident caused everyone to support the Green Republic, the rulers. All energy usage is carefully monitored and regulated, but it is widely known that the Green Republic shows favoritism for certain people. This is also when it was decided that the Amish would be walled into a preserve. The Amish eat meat, wear leather, and aren't vaccinated, a major sin under the new regime. (But the Amish built an opening into the wall.)
Plot While the Amish plot element is unique, the rest of this read like Firestarter by Stephen King. In King's book a group of college student's volunteer to take part in drug trials (in this book they were military soldiers), which cause them to have paranormal powers (in this book the power is electrical). Two in the drug trials get married and have a daughter with even more powers (in this book two couples have a boy and a girl). The government wants the daughter for experimentation (the government wants Lydia for experimentation). The daughter, Charlie, is captured and is convinced by a plant, John, to really show them what she can do (A gov't plant, David, convinces Lydia to really show them what she can do.) Charlie is taken to a sealed room with the government scientists safely behind glass divider (same for Lydia). Charlie burns so hot she burns the crap out of everything and even effects the scientist behind the glass wall (same for Lydia, but she even bursts the glass and taunts the scientists). There are even similar endings...ugh.
Love Another case of insta-love occurs between Lydia and Corwin. Yes, there is a love triangle. I hate insta-love and love triangles.
Characters I did like them, but the whole love thing ruined it for me.
Overall It was still a fun and fast paced read, but I liked Firestarter more than Grounded.
I love genre crossovers, and this is great one. It's Beverly Lewis meets Veronica Roth, with a bit of Stephen King's Firestarter thrown in for good measure. While I'm not a huge fan of first person point of view, this one was done so well that I really didn't notice it. Once the action starts, you can NOT put this book down. I finished the book in a matter of hours and will probably get the sequels. One nice thing is that you can stop with book 1 if you want to (just don't read the teaser prologue for the next book, and you can believe the characters are going to live happily ever after). I really dislike books that end with cliffhangers just to make you have to buy the next book to find out what happens, but this book has an ending and a good one. Grounded is well-written, well edited, and a great addition to the Indie market. I wish all Indie books were this well produced.
Warning those who lean very left politically and who believe in the honesty and necessity of the current environmental movement will probably be insulted by this book,since the environmental politics of our current era is the bad guy in this dystopia. I happen to agree with the political sentiment expressed in the book, so I enjoyed it, but others may not so much. This book also expresses strong faith, but is not necessarily "Christian."
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