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Flying #2
Enhanced
Carrie Jones, the New York Times bestselling author of Flying , presents another science fiction adventure of cheerleader-turned-alien-hunter Mana in Enhanced .
Seventeen-year-old Mana has found and rescued her mother, but her work isn’t done yet. Her mother may be out of alien hands, but she’s in a coma, unable to tell anyone what she knows.
Mana is ready to take action. The only problem? Nobody will let her. Lyle, her best friend and almost-boyfriend (for a minute there, anyway), seems to want nothing to do with hunting aliens, despite his love of Doctor Who. Bestie Seppie is so desperate to stay out of it, she’s actually leaving town. And her mom’s hot but arrogant alien-hunting partner, China, is ignoring Mana's texts, cutting her out of the mission entirely.
They all know the alien threat won't stay quiet for long. It’s up to Mana to fight her way back in.
“Witty dialogue and flawless action.”― VOYA
Seventeen-year-old Mana has found and rescued her mother, but her work isn’t done yet. Her mother may be out of alien hands, but she’s in a coma, unable to tell anyone what she knows.
Mana is ready to take action. The only problem? Nobody will let her. Lyle, her best friend and almost-boyfriend (for a minute there, anyway), seems to want nothing to do with hunting aliens, despite his love of Doctor Who. Bestie Seppie is so desperate to stay out of it, she’s actually leaving town. And her mom’s hot but arrogant alien-hunting partner, China, is ignoring Mana's texts, cutting her out of the mission entirely.
They all know the alien threat won't stay quiet for long. It’s up to Mana to fight her way back in.
“Witty dialogue and flawless action.”― VOYA
224 pages, Paperback
First published July 25, 2017
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440 people want to read
About the author
Carrie Jones
84 books4,091 followers***SO MANY APOLOGIES***
I had been unable to get into my Goodreads account for years. If you have friended me, I have just friended you back (July 2021). If you have messaged me, I'm going to be working through those in the upcoming weeks.
Thank you all for reaching out and I'm so sorry.
Now onto the regularly scheduled bio:
Carrie Jones likes Skinny Cow fudgsicles and potatoes. She does not know how to spell fudgsicles. This has not prevented her from writing books. She lives with her cute family in Maine, but she grew up in Bedford, NH where she once had a séance with cool uber-comedian Sarah Silverman.
The Meyers brothers are from Bedford, too, so you’d think it would make Carrie funnier, coming from Bedford N.H. Obviously, something didn’t work.
Carrie has always liked cowboy hats but has never owned one. This is a very wrong thing. She graduated from Vermont College’s MFA program for writing. She has edited newspapers and poetry journals and has recently won awards from the Maine Press Association and also been awarded the Martin Dibner Fellowship as well as a Maine Literary Award.
Here’s the lowdown about Carrie…
1. Carrie can not drink coffee. It makes her insane. Do not give her caffeine.
2. Carrie is very responsive to loving strokes on the hair, kind of like a puppy. However, do not do this without asking first unless you are a ridiculously handsome man or an editor who is about to offer her a trillion dollars for the first draft of her novel.
3. Carrie is secretly really, really shy even though she’s pathetically outgoing in person. She has a very hard time calling people. So, if you want to talk to her, make the first move. And, if you’re her in-Maine female best friend, Jennifer, do NOT get mad at her because she is so bad at returning emails.
4. Carrie sometimes wears mismatched socks, if you do not think this is cool, do not tell her. You will hurt her feelings.
5. Carrie really, really wants you to like her books. Please like her books. PLEEEAASSSEEEE. She’ll be your best friend forever. That is, if you want a friend who is shy about calling and emailing and who wears mismatched socks and can’t drink caffeine and likes being pet on the head. Hhmmm….
6. Carrie is not above begging.
7. Carrie, like Belle in TIPS ON HAVING A GAY (ex) BOYFRIEND drinks Postum. It’s for the same reason, too.
8. Carrie loves Great Pyrenees dogs. They are huge and white, and furry and it looks like they have white eyeliner and mascara on, which is way too cute. Do you have one? Send a picture!
9. Carrie lives in Maine. She has a hard time with this in the winter. It is bleak in Maine in the winter. Imagine everything shades of gray and brown and no green anywhere except for in people’s noses. This is Maine in Winter. Maine in summer is the best place in the world, so it’s a trade-off. Feel free to invite Carrie to your house in the winter, but not if it’s in Greenland, Canada, or anywhere north of Florida.
10. Forget that. She’d still probably come.
I had been unable to get into my Goodreads account for years. If you have friended me, I have just friended you back (July 2021). If you have messaged me, I'm going to be working through those in the upcoming weeks.
Thank you all for reaching out and I'm so sorry.
Now onto the regularly scheduled bio:
Carrie Jones likes Skinny Cow fudgsicles and potatoes. She does not know how to spell fudgsicles. This has not prevented her from writing books. She lives with her cute family in Maine, but she grew up in Bedford, NH where she once had a séance with cool uber-comedian Sarah Silverman.
The Meyers brothers are from Bedford, too, so you’d think it would make Carrie funnier, coming from Bedford N.H. Obviously, something didn’t work.
Carrie has always liked cowboy hats but has never owned one. This is a very wrong thing. She graduated from Vermont College’s MFA program for writing. She has edited newspapers and poetry journals and has recently won awards from the Maine Press Association and also been awarded the Martin Dibner Fellowship as well as a Maine Literary Award.
Here’s the lowdown about Carrie…
1. Carrie can not drink coffee. It makes her insane. Do not give her caffeine.
2. Carrie is very responsive to loving strokes on the hair, kind of like a puppy. However, do not do this without asking first unless you are a ridiculously handsome man or an editor who is about to offer her a trillion dollars for the first draft of her novel.
3. Carrie is secretly really, really shy even though she’s pathetically outgoing in person. She has a very hard time calling people. So, if you want to talk to her, make the first move. And, if you’re her in-Maine female best friend, Jennifer, do NOT get mad at her because she is so bad at returning emails.
4. Carrie sometimes wears mismatched socks, if you do not think this is cool, do not tell her. You will hurt her feelings.
5. Carrie really, really wants you to like her books. Please like her books. PLEEEAASSSEEEE. She’ll be your best friend forever. That is, if you want a friend who is shy about calling and emailing and who wears mismatched socks and can’t drink caffeine and likes being pet on the head. Hhmmm….
6. Carrie is not above begging.
7. Carrie, like Belle in TIPS ON HAVING A GAY (ex) BOYFRIEND drinks Postum. It’s for the same reason, too.
8. Carrie loves Great Pyrenees dogs. They are huge and white, and furry and it looks like they have white eyeliner and mascara on, which is way too cute. Do you have one? Send a picture!
9. Carrie lives in Maine. She has a hard time with this in the winter. It is bleak in Maine in the winter. Imagine everything shades of gray and brown and no green anywhere except for in people’s noses. This is Maine in Winter. Maine in summer is the best place in the world, so it’s a trade-off. Feel free to invite Carrie to your house in the winter, but not if it’s in Greenland, Canada, or anywhere north of Florida.
10. Forget that. She’d still probably come.
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January 24, 2021
I thoroughly enjoyed this book, all but the ending. It has been awhile since I read this one but what stood out is how the author of this one just kinda expected us to finish the story our own way, which is fine by me, I do that well when I go to sleep my brain makes up my version of the story anyways. But I could understand how someone not as creative and open minded wouldn't have enjoyed this one as much.
AGE RECOMMENDATION: 13 and up for scary images throughout the first and second book.
AGE RECOMMENDATION: 13 and up for scary images throughout the first and second book.
November 14, 2017
Alien books are generally not my thing but I really enjoyed Flying and now Enhanced. Even though Enhanced is a bit more serious, it still maintains the human and camp of the first book.
Mana has some ROUGH stuff going on. Flying left her in a really vulnerable spot and Enhanced drops her right back in and kicks it up a notch. Luckily Mana is up for the challenge, as evidenced by the ending of the book!
Recommend for those who want to dip their toes into sci-fi without going full in.
Mana has some ROUGH stuff going on. Flying left her in a really vulnerable spot and Enhanced drops her right back in and kicks it up a notch. Luckily Mana is up for the challenge, as evidenced by the ending of the book!
Recommend for those who want to dip their toes into sci-fi without going full in.
September 17, 2019
I know I read the first book. But I don't remember it. but it didn't make that much difference. fun and no, not very realistic
November 20, 2017
After reading Flying I couldn't wait for the sequel - always a sign that a book is awesome - and Enhanced does not disappoint. We again meet Mana, who only just recently found out that her life was meant to be bigger than just cheerleading, hanging with her friends, and muddling through high school. With her mother in the hospital and both of her best friends seeming to abandon her, Mana has to decide who she can trust.
Carrie Jones is amazing at writing characters you can relate to, and the story told in Enhanced is exciting and scary and fun all at the same time. From the first page to the last I couldn't put it down and I'm dying to know what happens next.
Carrie Jones is amazing at writing characters you can relate to, and the story told in Enhanced is exciting and scary and fun all at the same time. From the first page to the last I couldn't put it down and I'm dying to know what happens next.
October 12, 2017
Thank you to Edelweiss and the publisher for allowing me to review the E-ARC copy of this novel.
Carrie Jones is an excellent storyteller for young adult novels. I enjoyed to first one very much and have recommended it numerous times to teens. I couldn't wait to read this one when I saw it on Edelweiss so I requested a copy. I like Mana and her friends, but as I started this novel it felt darker. It wasn't as funny as the first one either. It is alot more violent than the first, but violence is in alot of YA novels today. I thought what really was missing for me had to be the lack of humor that I liked from the first one. It was great to read about all of these characters again and I hope Carrie Jones continues with this series, but I really miss her humor.
Carrie Jones is an excellent storyteller for young adult novels. I enjoyed to first one very much and have recommended it numerous times to teens. I couldn't wait to read this one when I saw it on Edelweiss so I requested a copy. I like Mana and her friends, but as I started this novel it felt darker. It wasn't as funny as the first one either. It is alot more violent than the first, but violence is in alot of YA novels today. I thought what really was missing for me had to be the lack of humor that I liked from the first one. It was great to read about all of these characters again and I hope Carrie Jones continues with this series, but I really miss her humor.
January 17, 2018
teen fiction (aliens are ruining my high school life)
Gah! How do you know whom to trust when everyone tells you not to trust anyone?
I liked this, but enjoyed the first one in the series way more. This took me a while to get back into, and even then I wasn't really into it.
Would also recommend the very funny, tongue-in-cheek Bad Taste in Boys by a different Carrie (Carrie Harris), about when zombies threaten to take over a high school.
Gah! How do you know whom to trust when everyone tells you not to trust anyone?
I liked this, but enjoyed the first one in the series way more. This took me a while to get back into, and even then I wasn't really into it.
Would also recommend the very funny, tongue-in-cheek Bad Taste in Boys by a different Carrie (Carrie Harris), about when zombies threaten to take over a high school.
November 20, 2017
I liked this one even more than the first. I felt like Mana is growing with each book. The side characters are well-developed and act like real people. I enjoyed this adventure and further exploration of what Mana is. I look forward to more in the series.
November 18, 2018
This book was a quick, fun, and easy read!!! Just like the first one, it was funny, cute and such a nice book to read. It really got me out of my book slump and now I think I’m ready to finish my pervious book and start a new one.
March 2, 2019
It felt unfinished to me. Maybe there is supposed to be a sequel? I don't know. I like the concept, and some of the specific scenes or dialog are enjoyable. Overall though it just seemed to be not quite "done" to me.
October 14, 2019
It wasn't as good as the first one, but I'm interested enough to read another--which I assume is coming. I really loved the development of Mana's relationship with China. There were so many frustrations with this one though; it was not as feel-good as the first one...but it ended well.
December 23, 2017
3.5 Not quite as good as the first in my opinion.
July 8, 2018
These keep getting better and better!
July 28, 2018
Seriously awesome book and I really hope there will be a 3rd one!! Mana is such an inspiring character!
December 21, 2018
This is bad too. I did started book 2 and was on page 60 when I couldn't get passed it. I really didn't connect with this duelogy at all. I hope her next YA series i could get into it.
April 22, 2019
This book was just dull. The action was slow. The characters were two dimensional. The dialogue was lame.
October 31, 2020
Not as good as the first book
March 23, 2021
This story got a tiny bit repetitive, but overall, I really like this series. Too bad it does not appear that there are any more.
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June 4, 2021Not as good as the first book
September 12, 2020
I wanted to hear more of Madison Greene. Madison was more compelling in her debut than Mana will ever be. Considering should speak volumes.
Mana's persistent whining and it's-all-about-me attitude gets turned up to eleven here. Although, it is easy to see why. I mean, the girl has been coddled her whole life Of course she is going to have a fit every time someone 'leaves' her. Or more accurately: isn't bending over backwards to satisfy her every whim. (Which incidentally is why Mana is friends with Lyle and Seppie.) Maybe stop telling the whiny brat that she can do anything? That way when she does fail, she won't throw quite as much of a fit?
Particularly reproachable moments were those that showed a healthy development of Mana's character that got quickly nixed by acts so dumb that you can't help but realise what an insolent child Mana really is.
That being said, the book does have its moments, as does Mana.
" Eat history, butt head. " being one of my favourites.
Mana's persistent whining and it's-all-about-me attitude gets turned up to eleven here. Although, it is easy to see why. I mean, the girl has been coddled her whole life Of course she is going to have a fit every time someone 'leaves' her. Or more accurately: isn't bending over backwards to satisfy her every whim. (Which incidentally is why Mana is friends with Lyle and Seppie.) Maybe stop telling the whiny brat that she can do anything? That way when she does fail, she won't throw quite as much of a fit?
Particularly reproachable moments were those that showed a healthy development of Mana's character that got quickly nixed by acts so dumb that you can't help but realise what an insolent child Mana really is.
That being said, the book does have its moments, as does Mana.
" Eat history, butt head. " being one of my favourites.
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