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The Specials #1-5
The Specials: Episode 1-5
TOM "The Guide" WEAVER can see the future--or rather, the many possible futures--of anyone he shakes hands with. When he shakes the hand of CHRIS MATAN, he sees a desolate and devastated world where Chris lurks in shadows, desperately trying to avoid extermination. Chris is a SPECIAL, a human being who is born with a single super-human trait, and war is about to be launched on the SPECIALS. Every one of them will be eliminated unless Chris can discover his own special ability and join with others of his kind to generate the synergistic power needed to defeat the evil DESTROYER, whose actions now threaten to annihilate not just the Specials but all of humanity.
- GenresParanormal
293 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 15, 2013
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B.C. Chrestians
9 books7 followersBC Chrestians is the writer of The Specials A Young Adult Serialized Sci-fi Thriller. BC has always been drawn to writing fun twisting accessible fiction. As a story teller, his goal is to keep the reader turning the page and guessing. His books all have one thing in common...you're in for a heck of a ride.
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February 26, 2014
Wow, loved it.
I highly recommend this book. so many plot twist your head may spin. I want to be surprised when I read. I want to be in suspense. This book did both. I can't wait for book #2. I was not expecting this bok to be this good. It's so nice when you find a gem like this. Read it. You will be glad you did.
I highly recommend this book. so many plot twist your head may spin. I want to be surprised when I read. I want to be in suspense. This book did both. I can't wait for book #2. I was not expecting this bok to be this good. It's so nice when you find a gem like this. Read it. You will be glad you did.
March 20, 2014
So close yet so far away.
I'm a lawyer and I read A LOT in my profession. I also write a lot. So grammar, spelling, etc can be kind of important to me. However, after reading high-brow, mind-draining, legal crap all day long, my favorite past-time is to read garbage. Mind-candy. I like things that may be difficult to believe. I like fantasy, Sci-Fi, basically anything that takes me out of my head.
These books were very imaginative and I very much enjoyed the directions this author took the books.
If you're reading these books for drivel-laden fun then you will find it here. The character development was nearly non-existent. The world building was also rather lacking. Basically the whole series felt two-dimensional.
I'll tell you, though, I really wanted to like these books. Something about them drew me in and I wanted to read more. It was like reading a rip-off of the television series "Heroes", but just not nearly as good.
What ultimately killed it for me was the writing. The writing in these books was at a level of crap that I just can't get past. These books desperately need professional editing. The author is incapable of keeping track of tenses. To top it off, he goes back and forth through time (which I enjoyed btw). So when the author goes back and forth in tenses within the same paragraph, then jumps to a different time period in the next chapter, and then can't keep track of tenses there either, well it's just maddening! Heck, sometimes he can't even recognize the difference between first and third persons.
And the commas! Don't get me started on the commas! Half the times he comma-splices the hell out of a sentence! The other half of the time he completely FAILS to use commas where they belong and you end up having to read the sentence over a few times just to understand what he's saying.
Other than that we see standard poor grammar that you might expect of a half decent high schooler. I don't know what I saw more of-- run-on sentences or incomplete sentences!
Oh, and for the record, the word "and" should not show up over and over and over and (you get my point) in one sentence.
Bottom line -- if you're looking for a piece of mental excrement to just pass the time and give your brain a rest from all the thinking it does, then this is the book series for you. If you really, really, really want your books to contain some respectable level of college level English writing skills, then you should pass this author by.
I'm a lawyer and I read A LOT in my profession. I also write a lot. So grammar, spelling, etc can be kind of important to me. However, after reading high-brow, mind-draining, legal crap all day long, my favorite past-time is to read garbage. Mind-candy. I like things that may be difficult to believe. I like fantasy, Sci-Fi, basically anything that takes me out of my head.
These books were very imaginative and I very much enjoyed the directions this author took the books.
If you're reading these books for drivel-laden fun then you will find it here. The character development was nearly non-existent. The world building was also rather lacking. Basically the whole series felt two-dimensional.
I'll tell you, though, I really wanted to like these books. Something about them drew me in and I wanted to read more. It was like reading a rip-off of the television series "Heroes", but just not nearly as good.
What ultimately killed it for me was the writing. The writing in these books was at a level of crap that I just can't get past. These books desperately need professional editing. The author is incapable of keeping track of tenses. To top it off, he goes back and forth through time (which I enjoyed btw). So when the author goes back and forth in tenses within the same paragraph, then jumps to a different time period in the next chapter, and then can't keep track of tenses there either, well it's just maddening! Heck, sometimes he can't even recognize the difference between first and third persons.
And the commas! Don't get me started on the commas! Half the times he comma-splices the hell out of a sentence! The other half of the time he completely FAILS to use commas where they belong and you end up having to read the sentence over a few times just to understand what he's saying.
Other than that we see standard poor grammar that you might expect of a half decent high schooler. I don't know what I saw more of-- run-on sentences or incomplete sentences!
Oh, and for the record, the word "and" should not show up over and over and over and (you get my point) in one sentence.
Bottom line -- if you're looking for a piece of mental excrement to just pass the time and give your brain a rest from all the thinking it does, then this is the book series for you. If you really, really, really want your books to contain some respectable level of college level English writing skills, then you should pass this author by.
March 8, 2014
Enjoyed the plot twists and jumps through time. I'll be anxiously awaiting the next book.
July 12, 2015
What Heroes could have been.
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