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Spirit Walker #1
Affinity
Kai was born with the ability to see brokenness and to fix it. But when a freak accident leaves him trapped in the spiritual realm, he discovers a sinister side to being gifted—much darker than he'd ever imagined. With Affinity Recruiters hunting him down, Kai has to learn how to stay alive, use his gift to save his friends, and stop the flood of evil threatening the world. Can he do it before time runs out?
- GenresFantasy
324 pages, Paperback
Published July 1, 2018
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About the author
Dianne J. Wilson
24 books85 followersDianne J. Wilson writes across genres including YA Fantasy and Romantic Suspense. Weaving Invisible into words, she explores spiritual truth woven through ordinary life with equal dashes of breathless adventure and tongue-in-cheek humor, all soaked in God's Grace. She writes in stolen moments, usually in the back seat of her tiny car.
Her home is in Makhanda, a South African university town, where she lives with her hubby and three daughters who all take turns at being home. Her love-language is tea and taking long drives to listen to new songs with her girls. When she’s not stuck in her car writing, you can find her feeding all the hungry people in her house who gaze at her expectantly around mealtimes.
Her home is in Makhanda, a South African university town, where she lives with her hubby and three daughters who all take turns at being home. Her love-language is tea and taking long drives to listen to new songs with her girls. When she’s not stuck in her car writing, you can find her feeding all the hungry people in her house who gaze at her expectantly around mealtimes.
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June 11, 2018
Thank you to Pelican Book Group & Netgalley for sending me this book for free in exchange for an honest review. ❤️🙏🏻
I wanted to love this book, I truly did, the cover is absolutely gorgeous and the power of " affinity" seemed intriguing! Who wouldn't want to read a story about a boy who could fix parts that were broken on another person, places that " light up" and show where the damage is and what is plaguing their body.
The book started off great, we meet Kai who is in a school classroom when suddenly both he and a fellow classmate & friend Pete get beckoned to come forward for a testing for these special affinity powers. His friend is taken ( exactly where we never really find out) , but he fools the system and goes back to his home on a rooftop of an abandoned building. Here he lives alone, basically homeless with his two kittens Riff & Raff. After feeding and taking care of the kittens, he is then on his way to accomplish whatever feat is on this secret letter that is in his pocket when he is suddenly hit by a bus.
Kai is taken to the hospital where a young girl named "Zee" who is visiting her grandmother across the hallway begins to look over him ....and this is where the two worlds collide. There is a spirit world which seems to be comparable to both heaven & hell and the real world which the characters flip flop back and forth between.
In this spirit world there are Darkounds, Lightsuckers, Tau ( God?), a river that cures all, tunnels everywhere , among so many other places & beings that you need to keep track of.
I followed the book in its entirety determined to finish it, but it seemed that every time they got back to " real life" they lost someone else. First the main goal was to get Kai to return,then they group lost Bree , then Runt, Then Zee and each time they have to go on an entire new escapade back in the spiritual realm. ( which usually lines up with a place in the real world if they press their fingers to their silver birthmarks.)
Overall I liked the story but there was SO much information that could have been saved and made into a series. Way too much happens in one book. I think that the author should have elaborated more on Kai's story with his Mom and his new friendship with this new friend Zee and her grandmother, maybe saving some people with their gifts of " light" throughout the hospital, but instead they just kept losing a person in their group.
I liked the relationship of Torn & Elden ( reminding me somewhat of Four & Eric in Divergent- being one another's competition basically and giving each other grief) and how those were getting trained to lose their light & get their own Darkound-- an entire book could have based on that part next.
Just way too much information in one book. I was really pulling for a great ending to change my mind -- but guess what Bree is alive? So more trying to save another in this spiritual realm 😭
I wanted to love this book, I truly did, the cover is absolutely gorgeous and the power of " affinity" seemed intriguing! Who wouldn't want to read a story about a boy who could fix parts that were broken on another person, places that " light up" and show where the damage is and what is plaguing their body.
The book started off great, we meet Kai who is in a school classroom when suddenly both he and a fellow classmate & friend Pete get beckoned to come forward for a testing for these special affinity powers. His friend is taken ( exactly where we never really find out) , but he fools the system and goes back to his home on a rooftop of an abandoned building. Here he lives alone, basically homeless with his two kittens Riff & Raff. After feeding and taking care of the kittens, he is then on his way to accomplish whatever feat is on this secret letter that is in his pocket when he is suddenly hit by a bus.
Kai is taken to the hospital where a young girl named "Zee" who is visiting her grandmother across the hallway begins to look over him ....and this is where the two worlds collide. There is a spirit world which seems to be comparable to both heaven & hell and the real world which the characters flip flop back and forth between.
In this spirit world there are Darkounds, Lightsuckers, Tau ( God?), a river that cures all, tunnels everywhere , among so many other places & beings that you need to keep track of.
I followed the book in its entirety determined to finish it, but it seemed that every time they got back to " real life" they lost someone else. First the main goal was to get Kai to return,then they group lost Bree , then Runt, Then Zee and each time they have to go on an entire new escapade back in the spiritual realm. ( which usually lines up with a place in the real world if they press their fingers to their silver birthmarks.)
Overall I liked the story but there was SO much information that could have been saved and made into a series. Way too much happens in one book. I think that the author should have elaborated more on Kai's story with his Mom and his new friendship with this new friend Zee and her grandmother, maybe saving some people with their gifts of " light" throughout the hospital, but instead they just kept losing a person in their group.
I liked the relationship of Torn & Elden ( reminding me somewhat of Four & Eric in Divergent- being one another's competition basically and giving each other grief) and how those were getting trained to lose their light & get their own Darkound-- an entire book could have based on that part next.
Just way too much information in one book. I was really pulling for a great ending to change my mind -- but guess what Bree is alive? So more trying to save another in this spiritual realm 😭
November 21, 2018
From the first sentence this book grabbed me. I loved Kai. His kind nature and his innocence despite his circumstances were evident in his care for people and things, even the kittens he adopted. When he woke up in such bizarre surroundings, my motherly heart strings (I have three sons.) were tugged, pulling me in deeper as I followed his story. I thoroughly enjoyed Affinity and look forward to reading the next book in this series.
October 10, 2018
A creative spiritual fantasy.
May 15, 2019
I went into this book not knowing what to expect. It was my first time reading this author, but I was really intrigued by the back cover.
What a unique and surprising story! My initial thoughts at the opening of the story was that things were shaping up to go in a super cool direction. As the story went on, I realized things were going very differently than I'd predicted. Not in a bad way, and in fact everything was so creative I was loving it! It was just different than I'd thought. Then, as I finally began to understand exactly what was happening I was delighted.
This is a very unique and creative story that is full of twists and turns. I recommend it for fantasy and supernatural genre readers.
What a unique and surprising story! My initial thoughts at the opening of the story was that things were shaping up to go in a super cool direction. As the story went on, I realized things were going very differently than I'd predicted. Not in a bad way, and in fact everything was so creative I was loving it! It was just different than I'd thought. Then, as I finally began to understand exactly what was happening I was delighted.
This is a very unique and creative story that is full of twists and turns. I recommend it for fantasy and supernatural genre readers.
January 31, 2019
Affinity is that Christian Fantasy that I have been looking for!! The author has done an incredible job in balancing so many components for a good Christian Fantasy novel. I couldn't help but notice that the story line reminded me a little bit of Ted Dekker's books. Yet, Affinity is different and unique. I absolutely enjoyed it. I am hooked into the story and can't wait for book 2 to come out!
June 21, 2018
This was an okay read. I felt it was a little dry and cumbersome at times. It is a unique concept that I haven't read before but it just wasn't my taste.
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