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Granted
Trapped
Ever since Brielle’s lamp got stuck in a human storage unit, she’s felt nothing but trapped. As if her world’s not suffocating enough, a poaching incident in her genie town turns up and they pin the blame on her. She has to find the real culprit before she’s banished without ever getting a taste of magic.
23 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 1, 2017
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Michelle Merrill
9 books52 followersMichelle Merrill loves kissing her hubby, snuggling her kids, eating candy, reading books, and writing first drafts. She names her computers after favorite fictional characters and fictional characters after favorite names.
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August 29, 2020
The novella-size prequel to the Granted series.
Teenage genie Brielle yearns to leave her genie village in the middle of the Saharan desert. She’s dying to see the marvels of the modern American world (especially fast cars). She is summoned to the high council where one of the council members tells her that there have been some vandalism in town and he wants her to investigate. She finds odd groupings of the camels in town, and her rival Rock nearby each time.
When I picked this up, I don’t think it dawned on me just how young the narrator voice would be. She is young teenage, over eager, hyper, and bouncing off the walls. And while it’s fun, it’s also more than a little grating as she incessantly complains about how bored she is. And I can see her point, there didn’t seem much to do in her small village besides talk to the camels. But then, her village didn’t seem fleshed out. I didn’t see buildings described at any point. She talks about modern things, but I honestly couldn’t tell you what style buildings were built in, or what clothes people wore. The story itself is fun and a mystery as she investigates odd occurrences in town, and that Rock keeps popping up. But then it feels like it doesn’t really come to a conclusion with a to be continued note. There were open threads and plot points that weren’t pulled together at the end. But it doesn’t seem like that particular thread about the camels gets continued in the next book. (I was half-expecting the camels to turn out to be a burgeoning malevolent force, for all the times they got mentioned lurking around the place). It does have my interest piqued to want to pick up the next book (but nearly ten dollars seems too pricy for an indie book and definitely out of my price range. Even this one is priced rather high for being under 50 pages).
Teenage genie Brielle yearns to leave her genie village in the middle of the Saharan desert. She’s dying to see the marvels of the modern American world (especially fast cars). She is summoned to the high council where one of the council members tells her that there have been some vandalism in town and he wants her to investigate. She finds odd groupings of the camels in town, and her rival Rock nearby each time.
When I picked this up, I don’t think it dawned on me just how young the narrator voice would be. She is young teenage, over eager, hyper, and bouncing off the walls. And while it’s fun, it’s also more than a little grating as she incessantly complains about how bored she is. And I can see her point, there didn’t seem much to do in her small village besides talk to the camels. But then, her village didn’t seem fleshed out. I didn’t see buildings described at any point. She talks about modern things, but I honestly couldn’t tell you what style buildings were built in, or what clothes people wore. The story itself is fun and a mystery as she investigates odd occurrences in town, and that Rock keeps popping up. But then it feels like it doesn’t really come to a conclusion with a to be continued note. There were open threads and plot points that weren’t pulled together at the end. But it doesn’t seem like that particular thread about the camels gets continued in the next book. (I was half-expecting the camels to turn out to be a burgeoning malevolent force, for all the times they got mentioned lurking around the place). It does have my interest piqued to want to pick up the next book (but nearly ten dollars seems too pricy for an indie book and definitely out of my price range. Even this one is priced rather high for being under 50 pages).
November 17, 2019
A thoroughly enjoyable series all the way through!
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