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Rising Night: beginnings
Deep beneath the sands of Egypt, darkness awakens.
Tengo Garcia doesn't know where she came from. She grew up hard and fast in rural Guatemala, learning early on how to defend herself. Then one night, she commits a crime with magyck she didn't even know she possessed - and ends up on the run from the drug cartel.
Photographer Aggie Black grew up as the only Iroquois child in a Catholic orphanage. It taught her to be tough, creative, and independant. But when she starts seeing things that nobody else can, her life goes downhill, fast.
Both girls are given an opportunity for a new life. For Tengo, the offer makes perfect sense. For Aggie, it's a way out of a mess that she shouldn't even be in. From drug cartels and the FBI to Egyptian gods with a vendetta, Tengo and Aggie's lives are about to get a whole lot more interesting.
Tengo Garcia doesn't know where she came from. She grew up hard and fast in rural Guatemala, learning early on how to defend herself. Then one night, she commits a crime with magyck she didn't even know she possessed - and ends up on the run from the drug cartel.
Photographer Aggie Black grew up as the only Iroquois child in a Catholic orphanage. It taught her to be tough, creative, and independant. But when she starts seeing things that nobody else can, her life goes downhill, fast.
Both girls are given an opportunity for a new life. For Tengo, the offer makes perfect sense. For Aggie, it's a way out of a mess that she shouldn't even be in. From drug cartels and the FBI to Egyptian gods with a vendetta, Tengo and Aggie's lives are about to get a whole lot more interesting.
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Published January 9, 2018
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Heather Marie Adkins
95 books589 followersHEATHER MARIE ADKINS writes too much but still too little. She also has too many cats, not enough tequila, and a torrid love affair with procrastination.
With a penchant for the paranormal, Heather spends her days fueled by coffee, Ancient Aliens, and true crime podcasts. She resides in an unfortunately-not-haunted Queen Anne in southern Indiana with a sarcastic husband who is entirely too dependent on puns.
When she’s not plotting her next book or herding felines, she's researching the spookier aspects of history for her podcast, Historically Weird. Find out more about her at heathermarieadkins.com.
With a penchant for the paranormal, Heather spends her days fueled by coffee, Ancient Aliens, and true crime podcasts. She resides in an unfortunately-not-haunted Queen Anne in southern Indiana with a sarcastic husband who is entirely too dependent on puns.
When she’s not plotting her next book or herding felines, she's researching the spookier aspects of history for her podcast, Historically Weird. Find out more about her at heathermarieadkins.com.
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August 4, 2018
This wasn't actually bad, it's just that it's basically one giant backstory without any goal or stakes.
Our two heroines discover their powers in a way that get them in trouble, they both get assaulted by a man who tries to rape them and they both kill them before being recruited by guys wearing black. Then it says 'See their adventures in Rising Night!' even tho I saw nothing of a book with that title written by Heather Marie Adkins.
The characters were fine even tho the gratuitous Spanish made me wonder if Tengo was speaking English in frickin' Guatemala. Advice from a language nerd: adding random words in the language your character is supposed to be speaking breaks the immersion, because it makes the reader wonder why 'I need to tell you something' was translated but not 'Mi abuela'. Just write the whole damned thing in English and mention the words if they're untranslatable and just say 'I switched to X language' when it needs to be said. Of course, that doesn't apply if the character is speaking, say, English and they slip in French or Spanish words.
And can we please get more original with how the hero/ines get their powers? Like Tengo was ok, she was gonna get raped in an alley in Guatemala and probably killed after, so y' know, maybe the powers needed some 'omg I'm gonna die' energy. But Aggie was just randomly going to the bank and bam! X-ray vision activated. And of course it picks up the important stuff, not one guy's tumor or used tissues. Like what's the explanation for her powers activating then and not, say, when she was doing laundry? Having sex? Playing with a dog??? All I can take from that is that her powers are something external to her that have an idea of what the future is going to be so it activated without her even knowing she was in any danger.
And just like guys raping girls- can we stop putting random evil acts for the sake of- what? Justifying the heroine's actions? That can be done without needing to get rape involved. Making sure the guys are 100% evil and deserved to get killed? Ok I know this is kind of the same thing as above but how about no? How about you let your protagonists make mistakes and paint the world as gray instead of black and white?
What if the guy had pissed off Tengo, so she decided to steal his wallet or something, and he cornered her in the alley like 'ok you're not interested I get it, give me my wallet back' and she's like 'bro you're wearing a gold chain all this here is tip money for looking', things escalate, he tries to take it from her, she runs, he catches her and pins her, she puts her hands on his face and bam! one fried macho up to order.
Like this would be actually be interesting! The heroine's just murdered a motherfucker for wanting to get his wallet back- if he had a kid, this would be a basic 'you killed my father' storyline. SHE'S THE BAD GUY. How cool would it be to read about that? About a girl with powers who actually did something terrible with them? HOW HAS THIS NOT BEEN DONE BEFORE???
Overall I don't care much for this story. It's too basic to be interesting, too short to make me care and too long for what it is. Like why couldn't Aggie's bank and mansion chapters be one? And later with Tengo she just goes around talking to characters we know are going to die so why not make it all one chapter? *sigh* At least the writing was passable and the formatting wasn't trash.
Our two heroines discover their powers in a way that get them in trouble, they both get assaulted by a man who tries to rape them and they both kill them before being recruited by guys wearing black. Then it says 'See their adventures in Rising Night!' even tho I saw nothing of a book with that title written by Heather Marie Adkins.
The characters were fine even tho the gratuitous Spanish made me wonder if Tengo was speaking English in frickin' Guatemala. Advice from a language nerd: adding random words in the language your character is supposed to be speaking breaks the immersion, because it makes the reader wonder why 'I need to tell you something' was translated but not 'Mi abuela'. Just write the whole damned thing in English and mention the words if they're untranslatable and just say 'I switched to X language' when it needs to be said. Of course, that doesn't apply if the character is speaking, say, English and they slip in French or Spanish words.
And can we please get more original with how the hero/ines get their powers? Like Tengo was ok, she was gonna get raped in an alley in Guatemala and probably killed after, so y' know, maybe the powers needed some 'omg I'm gonna die' energy. But Aggie was just randomly going to the bank and bam! X-ray vision activated. And of course it picks up the important stuff, not one guy's tumor or used tissues. Like what's the explanation for her powers activating then and not, say, when she was doing laundry? Having sex? Playing with a dog??? All I can take from that is that her powers are something external to her that have an idea of what the future is going to be so it activated without her even knowing she was in any danger.
And just like guys raping girls- can we stop putting random evil acts for the sake of- what? Justifying the heroine's actions? That can be done without needing to get rape involved. Making sure the guys are 100% evil and deserved to get killed? Ok I know this is kind of the same thing as above but how about no? How about you let your protagonists make mistakes and paint the world as gray instead of black and white?
What if the guy had pissed off Tengo, so she decided to steal his wallet or something, and he cornered her in the alley like 'ok you're not interested I get it, give me my wallet back' and she's like 'bro you're wearing a gold chain all this here is tip money for looking', things escalate, he tries to take it from her, she runs, he catches her and pins her, she puts her hands on his face and bam! one fried macho up to order.
Like this would be actually be interesting! The heroine's just murdered a motherfucker for wanting to get his wallet back- if he had a kid, this would be a basic 'you killed my father' storyline. SHE'S THE BAD GUY. How cool would it be to read about that? About a girl with powers who actually did something terrible with them? HOW HAS THIS NOT BEEN DONE BEFORE???
Overall I don't care much for this story. It's too basic to be interesting, too short to make me care and too long for what it is. Like why couldn't Aggie's bank and mansion chapters be one? And later with Tengo she just goes around talking to characters we know are going to die so why not make it all one chapter? *sigh* At least the writing was passable and the formatting wasn't trash.
March 25, 2018
It was definitely an interesting story. Good set up. I just couldnt obsess over the characters. I need to be able to do that in order to obsess over the story. Its definitely a unique read and different characters!
February 9, 2018
Fast-paced, fun to read, only making me want to read MORE!
March 30, 2018
I finished what was in the box set. I can't wait for this to be finished completely. I love what I read!
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