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Enhanced Chronicles #1
The Enhanced Chronicles: Dream Miner
West CBI agent, Verity Sanchez, is tracking a killer who leaves no clues and invades her dreams. On edge and nearing a mental breakdown, she gets help from an unexpected source. East CBI agent, Arik Salem, has come out west to solve the unsolvable. He doesn't count on landing in the middle of a murder investigation nor being captivated by the talented agent assigned to assist him. He can't let her get close or risk his secret destroying the trust they've built. As the body count and dreams increase, Verity must find a way to end both, or be consumed by the twisted desires of a killer. Book 1 in The Enhanced Chronicles For readers who like Kay Hooper's Bishop/SCU novels.
322 pages, Paperback
First published December 30, 2011
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About the author
Lakisha Spletzer
14 books293 followersWhere to start? Here are the basics.
Lakisha is an internationally selling indie cross-genre writer of science fiction/fantasy/paranormal romance/YA/children’s lit.
She started writing stories and poetry at the age of 8 and hasn’t stopped yet. She has always been a writer, but becoming a published author took a lot of work and dedication.
That didn’t happen until after she left her home state of Virginia, and moved to Florida in 2004.
Finding time to write while being a full-time mother and school teacher, can be difficult but Lakisha always liked a challenge.
She learned to not let life’s many roadblocks and speed bumps throw her to the curb. She can’t wait to dive in and continue to share the stories swirling around in her head.
Lakisha is an internationally selling indie cross-genre writer of science fiction/fantasy/paranormal romance/YA/children’s lit.
She started writing stories and poetry at the age of 8 and hasn’t stopped yet. She has always been a writer, but becoming a published author took a lot of work and dedication.
That didn’t happen until after she left her home state of Virginia, and moved to Florida in 2004.
Finding time to write while being a full-time mother and school teacher, can be difficult but Lakisha always liked a challenge.
She learned to not let life’s many roadblocks and speed bumps throw her to the curb. She can’t wait to dive in and continue to share the stories swirling around in her head.
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January 31, 2013
I tried. I really did. There were just too many grammatical and spelling errors for this book to be readable. I was devoting more attention to the mistakes than the story and there was no way I was going to get into it and enjoy it, except to make fun of it. This is a self-published book, but the first one that I have found to be unreadably error-filled. Other self-published books that I have read have had tolerable mistakes: Wizard Rising had some abuse of the English language, overused metaphors and similies and Quantum Mates: What Torin Wants had poor comprehension of the English language and generally poor grammar and sometimes strangely replaced words, despite the fact that the author is allegedly American. However, I found this less tolerable perhaps because the mistakes tended to be more subtle.
November 13, 2012
This was a quick read, but I definitely enjoyed the set up of the world and the psionics. I'm looking forward to learning more about them in future books!
July 17, 2013
This is a new-to-me author, and not a genre I usually read. That being said, I’m glad I took a chance on this one. Lakisha Spletzer’s Dream Miner is thought provoking, challenging, and suspenseful—all qualities of a great book. Set in 2102, a post-apocalyptic world finds Verity Sanchez an agent of the CBI Bureau’s West Division based out of San Angeles in pursuit of a rapist; she hopes to arrest and take him off of the streets for good. Unbeknownst to her, agents Arik Salem and Zee Grinth from the East Coast’s Central Division are also in pursuit of the same individual, confident that they can collar him. Unfortunately, Verity accidentally shoots Arik and injures him slightly while also somehow killing the rapist, thus earning herself a two day suspension for “disobeying” an order to keep the perpetrator alive. What puzzles her is that she’s sure she didn’t aim as high as he was hit, and being genetically enhanced should have given her more control over where her shot landed.
Ms. Spletzer’s world building muscles were well flexed with this story, but not to the extent that I found myself frustrated over the plot’s complexity. Arik and Verity were genetically enhanced with differing abilities that enabled them to perform their duties at a level far above the typical agent, but still had “normal” issues running roughshod on their lives.
As strong as she was, Verity often found herself in the role of victim. She was abused mentally, verbally, and physically by a co-worker and former lover, while enduring the indifferent attitudes from her boss often enough that it made turning a blind-eye to her plight the next Olympic sport. She had to work twice as hard (even being enhanced) for two-thirds of the respect the male agents seem to garner, and yet she never gave up.
Arik was a breath of fresh air for her—he and his partner Zee weren’t afraid to give her the credit she was due, and to treat her with the common decency we’d hope as human beings would be commonplace. Yes, they had a slight ulterior motive—Arik more than one—but they were good, solid men, who stood up for what they believed to be right.
This plot had some twists and turns that shocked me—and some not so much. I figured out early on that there was interest between Arik and Verity, but was at a loss how he went from just meeting her to suddenly declaring two-thirds of the way through the book that he’d been dreaming about her for ten years. I would have thought that would play a larger part in his angst, and felt that it might have been an afterthought on the part of the author to intensify the connection between the two. Still, since their romance wasn’t the main drive of the plot, that one misgiving wasn’t a deal-breaker for me.
If you’re a fan of the science fiction & paranormal genre, you’ll enjoy Dream Miner by Lakisha Spletzer. I’m keeping my eye on her to see when she releases the second installment in the Enhanced Chronicles—I’m really interested to find where she takes the series next!
Ms. Spletzer’s world building muscles were well flexed with this story, but not to the extent that I found myself frustrated over the plot’s complexity. Arik and Verity were genetically enhanced with differing abilities that enabled them to perform their duties at a level far above the typical agent, but still had “normal” issues running roughshod on their lives.
As strong as she was, Verity often found herself in the role of victim. She was abused mentally, verbally, and physically by a co-worker and former lover, while enduring the indifferent attitudes from her boss often enough that it made turning a blind-eye to her plight the next Olympic sport. She had to work twice as hard (even being enhanced) for two-thirds of the respect the male agents seem to garner, and yet she never gave up.
Arik was a breath of fresh air for her—he and his partner Zee weren’t afraid to give her the credit she was due, and to treat her with the common decency we’d hope as human beings would be commonplace. Yes, they had a slight ulterior motive—Arik more than one—but they were good, solid men, who stood up for what they believed to be right.
This plot had some twists and turns that shocked me—and some not so much. I figured out early on that there was interest between Arik and Verity, but was at a loss how he went from just meeting her to suddenly declaring two-thirds of the way through the book that he’d been dreaming about her for ten years. I would have thought that would play a larger part in his angst, and felt that it might have been an afterthought on the part of the author to intensify the connection between the two. Still, since their romance wasn’t the main drive of the plot, that one misgiving wasn’t a deal-breaker for me.
If you’re a fan of the science fiction & paranormal genre, you’ll enjoy Dream Miner by Lakisha Spletzer. I’m keeping my eye on her to see when she releases the second installment in the Enhanced Chronicles—I’m really interested to find where she takes the series next!
May 2, 2013
I liked this book better than Jewels. Still, I believe LaKisha can do better.
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