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Elemental
It’s hard to know how long you’ve lived when you can’t remember how many times you’ve died.
Some yearn for immortality, but seventeen-year-old Jordan Smith regards it a curse she can't escape. As an Elemental, Jordan possesses the power to endure painful, fiery deaths that transport her to another place in history. Yet her power comes at a terrible cost. She fears the combined strength of the four Elementals will threaten the fate of humanity. And she vows to prevent this from happening…even if it means she will die.
Flung into the present, the immense force of the other Elementals again draws near. Now Jordan must choose to sacrifice her feelings for the guy she loves—or risk losing everyone she knows.
Some yearn for immortality, but seventeen-year-old Jordan Smith regards it a curse she can't escape. As an Elemental, Jordan possesses the power to endure painful, fiery deaths that transport her to another place in history. Yet her power comes at a terrible cost. She fears the combined strength of the four Elementals will threaten the fate of humanity. And she vows to prevent this from happening…even if it means she will die.
Flung into the present, the immense force of the other Elementals again draws near. Now Jordan must choose to sacrifice her feelings for the guy she loves—or risk losing everyone she knows.
227 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 16, 2015
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Debbie Kump
14 books12 followersAfter graduating from Cornell University with degrees in Biology and Education, Debbie Kump taught middle and high school science in Maui, Seattle, and the Twin Cities and worked as a marine naturalist aboard a whale watch/snorkel cruise. Debbie lives in Minnesota with her husband, two sons, and three Siberian huskies. She especially enjoys writing early each morning; coaching youth soccer, hockey, lacrosse, and baseball; and dogsledding her kids to school. For more information, please visit her website: http://sites.google.com/site/debbieku...
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April 14, 2015
Elemental (The Elementals #1) by Debbie Kump
4 Stars
Most seventeen-year-olds only have to worry about getting through their exams and being invited to the next big party, but for Jordan the stakes are much higher. Power hungry Gaia and Hydros need Jordan in order to gain total domination of earth and are prepared to travel through time to force her into submission by any means necessary. They have already taken control of Jordan’s best friend Skye, and now ‘The Three’ are hot on Jordan’s heels killing everyone she has ever been close to in order to force her; the fourth Elemental, to join them.
In her latest escape Jordan jumped over 100 years from Chicago to California and nothing is the same, with modern day technology to contend with Jordan needs to learn quickly in order to blend in with her new surroundings and stay hidden from them. In her initial confusion Jordan finds herself the victim of a road traffic accident, now injured and weak she has to rely on Micah and his friend Sully to survive until she is fit enough to take on The Three once more.
Being the new girl in school Jordan has to face the typical social problems of our day… she’s the boys new interest causing the girls to be jealous of and mean to her etc. This gives the book a feel of any other coming of age drama and I sometimes forgot it was actually a fantasy story, I was only reminded when Jordan’s past lives were mentioned. This was normally in the form of dreams or sometimes flashbacks and was a good way to pass information to the reader without it feeling like an info dump.
Debbie Kump has a comfortable writing style and the work is well edited, I enjoyed the read and am interested in what happens next. Though there were some action scenes in Jordan’s flashbacks her current life…and the book, is quite sedate while we wait for her to heal, the pace only really picks up toward the end when The Three find her again.
I am hoping that some of the characters from this instalment will be carried over to the next; which I believe is to be released soon, as I’m not quite ready to see the end of them yet. Elemental is a great YA fantasy and sets the scene for an interesting and different series.
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4 Stars
Most seventeen-year-olds only have to worry about getting through their exams and being invited to the next big party, but for Jordan the stakes are much higher. Power hungry Gaia and Hydros need Jordan in order to gain total domination of earth and are prepared to travel through time to force her into submission by any means necessary. They have already taken control of Jordan’s best friend Skye, and now ‘The Three’ are hot on Jordan’s heels killing everyone she has ever been close to in order to force her; the fourth Elemental, to join them.
In her latest escape Jordan jumped over 100 years from Chicago to California and nothing is the same, with modern day technology to contend with Jordan needs to learn quickly in order to blend in with her new surroundings and stay hidden from them. In her initial confusion Jordan finds herself the victim of a road traffic accident, now injured and weak she has to rely on Micah and his friend Sully to survive until she is fit enough to take on The Three once more.
Being the new girl in school Jordan has to face the typical social problems of our day… she’s the boys new interest causing the girls to be jealous of and mean to her etc. This gives the book a feel of any other coming of age drama and I sometimes forgot it was actually a fantasy story, I was only reminded when Jordan’s past lives were mentioned. This was normally in the form of dreams or sometimes flashbacks and was a good way to pass information to the reader without it feeling like an info dump.
Debbie Kump has a comfortable writing style and the work is well edited, I enjoyed the read and am interested in what happens next. Though there were some action scenes in Jordan’s flashbacks her current life…and the book, is quite sedate while we wait for her to heal, the pace only really picks up toward the end when The Three find her again.
I am hoping that some of the characters from this instalment will be carried over to the next; which I believe is to be released soon, as I’m not quite ready to see the end of them yet. Elemental is a great YA fantasy and sets the scene for an interesting and different series.
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August 1, 2015
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Brought to you by OBS reviewer Omar
Elemental tells the story of Jordan, one of the four beings that represents the four elements, who the Greeks used to call her Pry, fire. After a long run over the world and time, we finally see her in the present time, where two friends find her after her last jump. But instead of running, this time, she has to stay put in the Bay Area, as she has to wear a pink cast for the next six weeks. Life can’t get any better for Jordan.
When you are an elemental being, that can control fire, and is running from the other three, it is not in your top priorities to go to school – I can see why she would have preferred to face her persecutors instead of facing today’s high school. I liked how for a moment Jordan contemplated the idea of going to the cost, knowing that it would attract the other elementals instead of going to her first day at school.
Author Debbie Kump, has made a world where these beings can jump through time and space, and the scene where Jordan learns about the history of the world was priceless. I imagine that the way it was described, is how a person that has come out of a coma must feel like. It was one of my favorite scenes of the book, but most of all, it remind me of a scene of the movie the Fifth Element. I like stories about the elements, and finding something similar in these two different cases, makes it more interesting.
This is the first book of the Elemental Series, and I feel that its purpose was for setting the background for the rest series. It has the capacity of being a standalone book, but it has some loose ends when finished.
One of the things that caught my attention was the cover, I think it emphasizes with Jordan’s element of fire, so kudos to the artist that made the cover.
If you like stories about the elements or people who willed them, then I recommend Elemental by Debbie Kump. Here you will meet a girl who has been running for a long time just to keep the world and humanity safe.
*OBS would like to thank the author for supplying a free copy of this title in exchange for an honest review*
Brought to you by OBS reviewer Omar
Elemental tells the story of Jordan, one of the four beings that represents the four elements, who the Greeks used to call her Pry, fire. After a long run over the world and time, we finally see her in the present time, where two friends find her after her last jump. But instead of running, this time, she has to stay put in the Bay Area, as she has to wear a pink cast for the next six weeks. Life can’t get any better for Jordan.
When you are an elemental being, that can control fire, and is running from the other three, it is not in your top priorities to go to school – I can see why she would have preferred to face her persecutors instead of facing today’s high school. I liked how for a moment Jordan contemplated the idea of going to the cost, knowing that it would attract the other elementals instead of going to her first day at school.
Author Debbie Kump, has made a world where these beings can jump through time and space, and the scene where Jordan learns about the history of the world was priceless. I imagine that the way it was described, is how a person that has come out of a coma must feel like. It was one of my favorite scenes of the book, but most of all, it remind me of a scene of the movie the Fifth Element. I like stories about the elements, and finding something similar in these two different cases, makes it more interesting.
This is the first book of the Elemental Series, and I feel that its purpose was for setting the background for the rest series. It has the capacity of being a standalone book, but it has some loose ends when finished.
One of the things that caught my attention was the cover, I think it emphasizes with Jordan’s element of fire, so kudos to the artist that made the cover.
If you like stories about the elements or people who willed them, then I recommend Elemental by Debbie Kump. Here you will meet a girl who has been running for a long time just to keep the world and humanity safe.
*OBS would like to thank the author for supplying a free copy of this title in exchange for an honest review*
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