Twistedby KayCee R
Cayden Rivers wants nothing more than to be normal, but we don’t always get what we want. For years he has been hiding a secret, afraid of being labeled a “freak”. Every day he goes to school, plays football, spends time with his girlfriend, and helps carry his drunken adopted father to bed. Nobody knows the truth about his unnatural speed and strength, including his life-long friend Camilla. Suddenly, four strangers enter Cayden’s life, and not only do they know his secret, they also have one of their own. With their help, Cayden discovers there is more to his power, something much more dangerous. Something other people will kill to possess. Camilla wishes her parents were around more. She gets lonely sleeping in her big empty house night after night. Sure, she has all the money she could ever need, but the only person who is there for her is Cayden. He has his own family and a girlfriend who takes up most of his time, so Camilla knows he won’t be there for her forever, and recently he’s been acting really strange. Will Cayden be able to keep his secret and his friendship with Camilla, or will his new found power destroy everything, including his own life? Switching between Cayden and Camilla's point of view, Twisted will leave you aching for more.
MY REVIEW
I wish to thank the author for providing me a copy of
this book for an honest review.
Twisted…a modern day Superman story, minus the alien side
and all the other aliens. Super-fast,
super strong and after a bit a whole bunch more abilities are discovered. An orphaned teenage boy who finds a whole new
world opened up to him by chance and also finds that there is more to his
heritage than he could ever imagine.
I found this story to actually be quite unique,
especially with the book world flooded with every type of paranormal possibility
at the moment. The author brings you not
only into the story of Cayden’s abilities, but also into everyday life. You learn what makes Cayden tick, what makes
him get out of the bed in the morning (even if he doesn’t realize it), and what
has shaped him through the years and what his future possibilities are.
The author brought forth a great depiction of the typical
teenage boy. Yeah, he wasn’t completely
typical, but the teen romance, angst, trust issues, friendships were well
written. He was the underdog that didn’t
let life get him down, he pushed through, you knew where his loyalties rested
and as a reader, I cheered him on every step of the way.
What I didn’t like was that there seemed to be a bit of
fluff put into the story to make it longer, to stretch the story throughout
some of the chapters. Too much
description that made me just say, okay already, we get it now get on with the
story. Even through that though, I
looked forward to seeing where the story was going to go.
There is the evil “villain” in the story. From early on I had a feeling that this one
individual and his cronies had ulterior motives, and at times thought, okay, maybe
not, but in the end my feelings were correct but I didn’t expect it to go down
the way it did. Great storytelling going
on throughout the book that when this did happen, as a reader I was not
disappointed but quite the opposite. I
was completely attached to the book and flew through the pages to the point
that the book ended. Oh, but what did my
eyes spy? YES! A blurb for Book 2! Woot!
Woot!
If you like a bit of human Superman, or should I say
Super Teen Boy, mixed with a bit of paranormal, thrown in with romance, secrets
and thrills, than this book is for you.
I do recommend that with the amount of teen drinking that is described
in this book that the reader should be 16+.
KayCee is a 24 year old self-published author from Cleveland, Ohio. KayCee has always loved reading. After a re-occurring dream she decided to try writing about it. She wrote the first installment of Twisted when she was 20.
“I kept having this dream about these twins, and then I just decided to run with it. I wrote the beginning, the end, and then filled in the middle.”
KayCee finished the book in 8 months and then decided to share the book online. After seeing people get interested in the book and the characters, she decided to write another book and turn Twisted into a series.
KayCee has finished four novels in the Twisted series and is currently working on the fifth book.
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