• Re: "The Inheritance (Breach Wars)" by Ilona Andrews

    From a425couple@3:633/10 to Lynn McGuire on Fri Sep 19 08:46:34 2025
    From: a425couple@hotmail.com

    On 9/15/25 22:55, Lynn McGuire wrote:
    "The Inheritance (Breach Wars)" by Ilona Andrews

    https://www.amazon.com/Inheritance-Breach-Wars-Ilona-Andrews/dp/1641973404/

    Book number one of a two book paranormal fantasy series.  I read the
    well printed and well bound POD (print on demand) trade paperback
    published by the Nancy Yost Literary Agency in 2025.  I am reading it
    again already, very unusual for me.  I am eagerly awaiting the release
    of book number two in the series.  By the reception on Amazon, many
    other people are impatiently waiting also.

    Ten years ago, the first twelve gates, the breaches, opened on Earth.
    After a couple of months, all of the gates erupted with monsters who
    killed thousands of humans.  After the army destroyed all of the killer monsters at great cost, many people were discovered to have paranormal talents.  Talents for mining in the breaches, talents for shielding, and talents for fighting.

    Adaline Moore, Ada, was a worker bee who suddenly became a Talent after
    the breaches started opening.  A talent for finding ore in the breaches.
     She has been into hundreds of gates but the latest gate is different.

    The authors have a website at:
       https://ilona-andrews.com/

    My rating:  6 stars out of 5 stars  (yes, six stars !)
    Amazon rating:  4.9 out of 5 stars (4,546 reviews)

    Lynn

    I earlier sent a response, but it did not show up for me
    looking at this newsgroup. I'll try again.

    My wife read, and enjoyed that book.
    As you call it, it is "paranormal fantasy series",
    so I am not very interested.
    In that line of books, I did read a book my 13 year old
    granddaughter read and suggested, "Gone". Someday I ought
    to post about it. Seriously, a lot going on in it!



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  • From Paul S Person@3:633/10 to lynnmcguire5@gmail.com on Sat Sep 20 09:09:55 2025
    From: psperson@old.netcom.invalid

    On Fri, 19 Sep 2025 15:57:08 -0500, Lynn McGuire
    <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 9/19/2025 10:46 AM, a425couple wrote:
    On 9/15/25 22:55, Lynn McGuire wrote:
    "The Inheritance (Breach Wars)" by Ilona Andrews

    https://www.amazon.com/Inheritance-Breach-Wars-Ilona-Andrews/
    dp/1641973404/

    Book number one of a two book paranormal fantasy series.  I read the
    well printed and well bound POD (print on demand) trade paperback
    published by the Nancy Yost Literary Agency in 2025.  I am reading it
    again already, very unusual for me.  I am eagerly awaiting the release
    of book number two in the series.  By the reception on Amazon, many
    other people are impatiently waiting also.

    Ten years ago, the first twelve gates, the breaches, opened on Earth.
    After a couple of months, all of the gates erupted with monsters who
    killed thousands of humans.  After the army destroyed all of the
    killer monsters at great cost, many people were discovered to have
    paranormal talents.  Talents for mining in the breaches, talents for
    shielding, and talents for fighting.

    Adaline Moore, Ada, was a worker bee who suddenly became a Talent
    after the breaches started opening.  A talent for finding ore in the
    breaches.   She has been into hundreds of gates but the latest gate is
    different.

    The authors have a website at:
        https://ilona-andrews.com/

    My rating:  6 stars out of 5 stars  (yes, six stars !)
    Amazon rating:  4.9 out of 5 stars (4,546 reviews)

    Lynn

    I earlier sent a response, but it did not show up for me
    looking at this newsgroup.  I'll try again.

    My wife read, and enjoyed that book.
    As you call it, it is "paranormal fantasy series",
    so I am not very interested.
    In that line of books, I did read a book my 13 year old
    granddaughter read and suggested, "Gone".  Someday I ought
    to post about it.  Seriously, a lot going on in it!

    I read "Gone (Gone, 1)" by Michael Grant
    https://www.amazon.com/Gone-Michael-Grant/dp/0061448788
    quite a few years ago. It was ok. Here is my review from March 23, 2022:

    ""Gone (Gone, 1)" by Michael Grant >https://www.amazon.com/Gone-Michael-Grant/dp/0061448788/

    "Book number one of a young adult dark fantasy series. I read the well >printed and well bound trade paperback published by Katherine Tegen
    Books (Harper Collins) in 2008, revised in 2014. I have yet to decide
    if I will read more books in the series as dark fantasy is not my bag. >Warning: there is much death and disappearance in the novel. I have a
    feeling that the series gets darker as the next book is titled "Hunger". >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gone_(novel_series)"

    ""Lord Of The Flies" meets "The Dome" meets "X-Men". Everyone fifteen
    and over suddenly disappears one day in a small California seaside
    community. The several hundred kids left behind, zero to fourteen, have
    to fend for themselves. After a month, most of the non-frozen and
    non-canned food is gone. And then there is the special abilities being >exhibited by some of the kids: telekinesis, healing, etc. Plus the
    flying rattlesnakes and talking coyotes."

    "My rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    Amazon rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars (2,316 reviews)"

    It strikes me that the film /Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius/ explored much
    the same situation, albeit at a lower level.

    And was a lot of fun to watch.
    --
    "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
    Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
    Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"

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  • From Scott Lurndal@3:633/10 to Lynn McGuire on Sat Sep 20 20:14:26 2025
    From: scott@slp53.sl.home

    Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> writes:
    On 9/19/2025 10:46 AM, a425couple wrote:
    On 9/15/25 22:55, Lynn McGuire wrote:

    In that line of books, I did read a book my 13 year old
    granddaughter read and suggested, "Gone".  Someday I ought
    to post about it.  Seriously, a lot going on in it!

    I read "Gone (Gone, 1)" by Michael Grant
    https://www.amazon.com/Gone-Michael-Grant/dp/0061448788
    quite a few years ago. It was ok. Here is my review from March 23, 2022:

    ""Gone (Gone, 1)" by Michael Grant >https://www.amazon.com/Gone-Michael-Grant/dp/0061448788/
    <snip>


    ""Lord Of The Flies" meets "The Dome" meets "X-Men". Everyone fifteen
    and over suddenly disappears one day in a small California seaside
    community. The several hundred kids left behind, zero to fourteen, have
    to fend for themselves. After a month, most of the non-frozen and
    non-canned food is gone. And then there is the special abilities being >exhibited by some of the kids: telekinesis, healing, etc. Plus the
    flying rattlesnakes and talking coyotes."

    Sounds like a redo of O.T. Nelson's _The Girl Who Owned A City_ (1975)
    with some fantasy elements.

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