Book Review

Basic Details:

Book Title: Awakening

Subtitle: The Sensorians #1

Author: Brigitte Morse-Starkenburg

Genre: Young Adult

Part of a series? Yes

Order in series: 1

Best read after earlier books in series?

Available: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54268439-awakening

Overall score:

I scored this book 5/5

⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

Short Summary of the book:

Eliza is a teenage girl navigating the trials every teenager struggles with. However, she experiences everything more intensely than her peers and was diagnosed with schizophrenia as a young child.

She lives alone with her mother. Her father left when she was still very long.

Soon everything changes. Eliza finds her sensitivity to outside impulses are part of the Sensorian’s make-up. She becomes part of a new, hidden society and is tasked with finding her missing dad. Will Eliza cope with being part of a very regimented society?

What I liked about the book:

The book is action-filled, full of intrigue, and has an underlying thread of love and care for each other. Sexual attraction, is it just chemicals playing havoc, or is there more?

What I didn’t like about the book:

I enjoyed the entire book.

My favourite bits in the book:

How Eliza continues to be free-spirited and doesn’t give up.

My least favourite bits in the book:

The book was enjoyable in its entirety.

Any further books in the series? Any more planned by this author?

This is the first book I’ve read by this author.

What books could this be compared to and why?

This is a young adult book, full of action, intrigue, sexual tension, and care for each other.

Recommendation:

In summary, I would recommend this book for the following readers:

Children No

Young Adult Yes

Adult Yes

If you like young adult adventures, this book may be the book for you.

I’m certainly looking forward to reading more by this author.

Book Description by Author:

Headstrong Eliza always felt she experiences the world differently from everyone else, but she never fully understood why. Her senses forever stood on edge, never totally controlled by her prescribed medication.

When, in a shock revelation, she finds out she possesses an extraordinary gift, Eliza gets plunged into the secret world of the Sensorians. Her life will never be the same again.

Trained to control her gift by the arrogant, cocky but incredibly handsome Zack and his alluring sister Zaphire, Eliza finds herself struggling to fit in with the strict and darkly unorthodox methods of the Sensorian society. She begins to wonder what she has let herself in for.

But, before she can change her mind, she is embroiled in the thrilling hunt for her estranged father Rick, who went missing from the Sensorian community under suspicious circumstances. Her loyalty gets severely tested in finding out the truth behind his disappearance, as all is not what it seems.

Do the Sensorians have a hidden agenda?

Why are they so desperate to find Rick?

What do they exactly want from her?

Awakening is the first book in the Sensorians Trilogy: A Young Adult Urban Fantasy which combines the coming of age themes of self-discovery, love and exploring sexuality, with a fantasy element based in the real world.

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