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Shattered: A Chilling Young Adult Dystopian Ghost Thriller
Only through death do you learn the truth...
Marris Sheffield, a fifteen-year-old orphan living in a late 21st century academy for unwanted children, is just three years away from phasing out of the program and becoming a valuable member of society. Until then, she's stuck within the confines of the academy's heavily fortified grounds. All is going as expected... until the kids become sick with an undisclosed illness and then a series of deaths occur, deaths which lead Marris and others to question the academy's agenda.
Shattered is the first book in The Hexon Code, a series of pain, loss, and the fight for love in a messed up world.
Marris Sheffield, a fifteen-year-old orphan living in a late 21st century academy for unwanted children, is just three years away from phasing out of the program and becoming a valuable member of society. Until then, she's stuck within the confines of the academy's heavily fortified grounds. All is going as expected... until the kids become sick with an undisclosed illness and then a series of deaths occur, deaths which lead Marris and others to question the academy's agenda.
Shattered is the first book in The Hexon Code, a series of pain, loss, and the fight for love in a messed up world.
410 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 22, 2017
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About the author
Jody Calkins
32 books52 followersJody Calkins grew up in the Minnesotan woods and now lives in rural Virginia with her family. She has a degree in classical studies and literature, loves studying languages, and writes young adult speculative fiction.
Check out her debut novel SHATTERED and her latest YA thrillers TAINTED and BOUGHT!
More information and her blog can be found at: https://jodycalkins.com. Be sure to follow her on Twitter (@JodyCalkins) and Facebook (@JodyCalkinsBiz) for more details about upcoming book releases and tales of the writing life.
Check out her debut novel SHATTERED and her latest YA thrillers TAINTED and BOUGHT!
More information and her blog can be found at: https://jodycalkins.com. Be sure to follow her on Twitter (@JodyCalkins) and Facebook (@JodyCalkinsBiz) for more details about upcoming book releases and tales of the writing life.
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Displaying 1 - 6 of 6 reviews
September 30, 2019
This is a heartbreakingly amazing story. If you care about kids or human life in general, you will feel such anger and sadness at this story. But it is such a good story and one that I hope never happens but has surely happened, or some similar event, in the past.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
October 28, 2018
Marris Sheffield and her friends are orphans living in a cold and spartan facility for unwanted children, and become caught up in a sinister plot that ultimately results in their deaths. While it is too late for Marris, Cullen and the other orphans who have died as a result of horrendous medical experimentation, Marris and her friends resolve to uncover the truth about their deaths and perhaps spare the remaining children who are still alive. This story has a very strong and intricate plot with plenty of twists and turns. Marris is a strong heroine, and although some of her actions are questionable, I was one hundred percent on her side. How could I not be? They were necessary for good to triumph over evil. All in all, a very good read that kept my attention until the very end.
March 5, 2021
This is a hard review to write. I really wanted to love this book. It is in a series, but sadly I didn't like it enough to get the rest of the series. The plot was great. However, there were too many inconsistencies in the story line for me. I would have liked to hear more about how the world as it was now came about. That might have filled in a few of the gaps for me. There were too many questions for me...why didn't the heroine do this instead, she's intelligent that seemed the logical thing to do; what about cell phones, why do they still have landlines in a world of the near future. Sooo many unanswered questions. Maybe they are addressed in the other books, but at this point I'm just not that interested in finding out. 😔
September 14, 2023
Ghost heroine
A ghost girl works to unravel the awful truths behind her death and others’. Interesting storyline full of human evil, death, and racing against time. Enjoyed the storyline of this setting and the characters. Happy and bittersweet.
A ghost girl works to unravel the awful truths behind her death and others’. Interesting storyline full of human evil, death, and racing against time. Enjoyed the storyline of this setting and the characters. Happy and bittersweet.
May 10, 2022
shattered
I really enjoyed it. When I first read about ghost I thought I would not finish the book. I keep reading and surprised I liked it.
I really enjoyed it. When I first read about ghost I thought I would not finish the book. I keep reading and surprised I liked it.
May 9, 2021
We're accustomed to telling ghost stories around a campfire...but what if it's the GHOST that's telling the story?
Well...that's exactly what's happening in Jody's book, "Shattered". It's a unique take on not only a ghost story but the dangers of what a corrupt ruling system can do. I am thoroughly looking forward to reading more of this series!
Well...that's exactly what's happening in Jody's book, "Shattered". It's a unique take on not only a ghost story but the dangers of what a corrupt ruling system can do. I am thoroughly looking forward to reading more of this series!
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