A Review of Firsts…

This book was the first review request that I ever received from an author!  I wanted to read the book, added it to my Goodreads TBR list, and then got an email from the author!  So that was exciting!  But let me just say that even though I was excited about getting a review request, this review will be just as objective as my other reviews.  Well, as objective as personal reviews can be…

This was also the very first book that I read on my Kindle Fire!  I had read a few books on my iPhone before (didn’t enjoy that), as well as a few on my computer (didn’t enjoy that either), but I have to say that I really love my Kindle Fire!  I mean, I love to have a physical book in my hands – there really is nothing that beats that.  But the Fire was really easy to maneuver, and it’s nice because I can hold it in one hand.  The only drawback I found was that it was hard to read outside during the daytime.  I think that some of the other Kindles, that use the different screens, might work better in such bright light. Other than that, it was great!

On to the Actual Review…

Intangible is a really cool paranormal book.  There are vampires and elves and mentions of goblins and other creatures.  I personally enjoy books with fairies and elves and things, so this was right up my alley!  And the main characters, Sera and Luke, are twins with superpowers.  Sera can heal people and Luke can see the future.  So this book was kind of like X-Men meets The Iron Fey series by Julie Kagawa.

The book has a pretty serious plot line – Luke “sees” Sera’s death and has to figure out how to stop it – but I loved how Meyers kept the book full of humor. I especially liked the sibling banter between Luke and Sera, and also their interactions with their mother.  It was funny and sarcastic and made me snicker.  

There was also a lot of action which makes me happy.  I need to relate to the characters and like the characters in a book, but action, twists, turns, and a complex plot really make my eyes light up.  And Intangible had all of these. There was one part – I’m not going to go into detail because I don’t want to spoil anyone – where I was waiting for one thing to happen and then BAM! Total twist that I didn’t see coming!  I think Meyers did a great job here with the writing, leading the readers to believe that the story was going in one direction, and then making a quick and compelling turn.

And I also enjoyed the characters.  I liked Luke and Sera a lot, but the secondary characters, namely Jonas and Fey, were my favorites because they were so complex and mysterious!  And I liked Quinn a lot, too, although we didn’t get to see much of him.  But maybe we’ll see more of him in the next book, because even though Goodreads doesn’t have this book listed as a series, at the end of Intangible there was a page that had information for the author’s website, where there is a mailing list so that readers can be notified when the next book in the series is released.  Also, the ending is not necessarily a cliff-hanger, but it is left wide open for the next installment.

The only thing that I could see some readers not really liking about this book is that there are several (at least five) points of view.  It’s told in third person, but the chapters focus on different characters.  I think it worked in this story, and I really don’t have a problem with multiple POVs in one book.  But I do know that some readers don’t really like more than two POVs.  But I was actually glad for it in this story, because it meant that we got to know more about Jonas and Fey, too.

My rating for Intangible by J. Meyers:

Actually 4 1/2 stars.  This was a really intriguing book, and I would recommend it to fans of paranormal YA.  I recently downloaded Intuition, the bonus short story, and I’m looking forward to reading it and the next book in the series!

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