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Intel: A Waypoint Prequel
What do you do when your dream job isn't everything you'd imagined it would be?
Quinn Lehi thought getting in was the hard part, but after starting the competitive internship program in UNID's Intel unit, she realizes the hard work has just begun. With only one permanent slot up for grabs, she'll have to outperform her fellow interns and watch her back for sabotage.
When two leading scientists go missing she'll draw on every trick and skill she possesses to find answers. Then, just when it looks like she's finally made the breakthrough they've been needing, disaster strikes.
Will old-school methods work in this high-tech society, and can Quinn overcome all obstacles to win the job she's always wanted?
Quinn Lehi thought getting in was the hard part, but after starting the competitive internship program in UNID's Intel unit, she realizes the hard work has just begun. With only one permanent slot up for grabs, she'll have to outperform her fellow interns and watch her back for sabotage.
When two leading scientists go missing she'll draw on every trick and skill she possesses to find answers. Then, just when it looks like she's finally made the breakthrough they've been needing, disaster strikes.
Will old-school methods work in this high-tech society, and can Quinn overcome all obstacles to win the job she's always wanted?
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Deborah Adams
6 books29 followersDeborah Adams is an award-winning co-author of the breakout series Waypoint. Deborah holds a degree in Communication from the University of Alabama in Huntsville. She lives in Huntsville, Alabama with her husband John and two boys Weston and Warner, cheering along with their soccer teams and loaded down like a pack mule with chairs, snacks, and other sundry items.
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December 8, 2018
This was an absolutely rocking novella that I have read in recent times.
It is a prequel to Waypoint, but it can stand on its own at 130 odd pages, and it serves as the best appetizer to Waypoint. It literally made me crave for the main book... Yeah, for an hour or so, I behaved like a book junkie wavering my finger over the 1click buy botton on Amazon.
The book had Quinn as the main character, a brilliant genius on the computer. Give her a keyboard and her fingers flew. She wowed me with her intelligence. The book by Kimberley Perkins and Deborah Adams, saw me sitting at the dentist and reading the entire book... It didn't even bother me that the doc was running late...
The story had Quinn and a group of 5 interns wanting to prove themselves capable to work for UNID, an Intel unit which kept their country and the rest of the world safe. With a saboteur secretly killing their scientists and with Qunn's mother in direct line of suspicion, Quinn had to work doubly hard to prove herself fit for the job and fight for her mother's innocence.
Quinn was everything I wanted in a main character, bold yet vulnerable, intelligent yet kind, honest yet would do anything for her mother. She learnt one-to-one fighting too, my kinda girl (though I am a wuss). SHE WAS THE PERFECT KICKASS HEROINE AND I SIMPLY LOVED HER. The only niggle I had was the story ended in a cliffhanger to make way for the main book Waypoint. Well, that was expected, but I still enjoyed reading it. So happy the authors wrote her story and brought her into my life.
It is a prequel to Waypoint, but it can stand on its own at 130 odd pages, and it serves as the best appetizer to Waypoint. It literally made me crave for the main book... Yeah, for an hour or so, I behaved like a book junkie wavering my finger over the 1click buy botton on Amazon.
The book had Quinn as the main character, a brilliant genius on the computer. Give her a keyboard and her fingers flew. She wowed me with her intelligence. The book by Kimberley Perkins and Deborah Adams, saw me sitting at the dentist and reading the entire book... It didn't even bother me that the doc was running late...
The story had Quinn and a group of 5 interns wanting to prove themselves capable to work for UNID, an Intel unit which kept their country and the rest of the world safe. With a saboteur secretly killing their scientists and with Qunn's mother in direct line of suspicion, Quinn had to work doubly hard to prove herself fit for the job and fight for her mother's innocence.
Quinn was everything I wanted in a main character, bold yet vulnerable, intelligent yet kind, honest yet would do anything for her mother. She learnt one-to-one fighting too, my kinda girl (though I am a wuss). SHE WAS THE PERFECT KICKASS HEROINE AND I SIMPLY LOVED HER. The only niggle I had was the story ended in a cliffhanger to make way for the main book Waypoint. Well, that was expected, but I still enjoyed reading it. So happy the authors wrote her story and brought her into my life.
September 20, 2019
I received a digital arc in exchange for an honest review. This is simply my opinion on the book and is not influenced by any external factor.
Exciting, heart-pounding, immersing – an incredible journey!
This is a prequel novella to Waypoint and sets the scene for the story in the main two novels.
Intel focuses on Quinn, a UNID agent vying for an internship with the Intel unit. She’s not the only one who’s aiming for this though, and it’s become a heavy competition with fierce competitors in a battle of wits and smarts. All is going as planned, but when the power goes out with no reason or explanation, their objectives change course. When two leading scientists go missing, she draws on
This is different from the novels in the series as it is only told from Quinn’s point of view, however, Quinn herself is an incredible and intelligent character. I loved reading about how she solved problems and her deductions. What I also liked is that Quinn addressed her own faults and accepted that she would not be perfect like some of the other competitors. Despite this, she works on self-improvement and maintains self-discipline to keep herself in the game while focusing on the tasks ahead.
As with the other books in the series, there is a slight bit of romance, but nothing that takes away from the plot.
If you’ve read the Waypoint series, or are planning on reading it, definitely make sure to add this to your TBR pile! Highly recommend this and the entire series.
Exciting, heart-pounding, immersing – an incredible journey!
This is a prequel novella to Waypoint and sets the scene for the story in the main two novels.
Intel focuses on Quinn, a UNID agent vying for an internship with the Intel unit. She’s not the only one who’s aiming for this though, and it’s become a heavy competition with fierce competitors in a battle of wits and smarts. All is going as planned, but when the power goes out with no reason or explanation, their objectives change course. When two leading scientists go missing, she draws on
This is different from the novels in the series as it is only told from Quinn’s point of view, however, Quinn herself is an incredible and intelligent character. I loved reading about how she solved problems and her deductions. What I also liked is that Quinn addressed her own faults and accepted that she would not be perfect like some of the other competitors. Despite this, she works on self-improvement and maintains self-discipline to keep herself in the game while focusing on the tasks ahead.
As with the other books in the series, there is a slight bit of romance, but nothing that takes away from the plot.
If you’ve read the Waypoint series, or are planning on reading it, definitely make sure to add this to your TBR pile! Highly recommend this and the entire series.
August 4, 2019
This is the prequel novella to the first book, Waypoint, in a series following the events that take place after the power has gone off around the world. During the prequel, everything is still normal and the main character, Quinn, applied for a cadet internship with UNID’s Intel unit. There will only be one ultimate permanent place available after the internship is completed. Only one of six interns to make it through the application process, she applied under her mother’s maiden name, since her mother actually runs the whole program and she wanted to get through on her own qualities. Unfortunately, it soon gets out, who she really is and everyone avoids her.
She finds it difficult to makes friends with any of the other interns and all their mentors know who she is and who her mother is! She does manage to get on with one of the interns and they seem to work well together. Whether this will actually be to her advantage will have to be seen. They are given training assignments and Quinn’s superior knowledge of computer technology and genius level skills wins some of the tests, but others are more physical and one of the other interns puts her down every time! On one of their training days, they are put onto the cases of two missing high level scientists and during this, they experience their first blackout.
The UNID should have powerful backup generators but these fail to work as well, whilst the blackouts last. Everyone, including the interns are put onto the case. Quinn finds some clues, but feels she can’t trust telling her mother, somehow she is involved or implicated in some of what she has found. The only person she can trust on her side is her combat mentor who has been giving her extra one-to-one combat lessons early every day. She tells her what she has found and it leads them to realising that the temporary blackouts may not be quite so temporary.
This leads directly onto book one, Waypoint and the fantastic new characters we meet there. This novella is 140 pages long, so isn’t a short introduction to the series like some may do. It gives you some beefy background and infill for the main characters and what is happening as the world begins to go black, bit by bit, and what those in charge attempt to do to stop it. It’s a fantastic introduction and its length gives a far better feel for what is to come than a shorter novella or short story might. I actually read Waypoint before coming across this book, so it showed me what their world was like before the power went off permanently. What UNID actually did and how its agents worked. Now I just have to read the next in the series, Constellation! I received an ARC copy of this book from the authors and I have freely given my own opinion of the book above.
She finds it difficult to makes friends with any of the other interns and all their mentors know who she is and who her mother is! She does manage to get on with one of the interns and they seem to work well together. Whether this will actually be to her advantage will have to be seen. They are given training assignments and Quinn’s superior knowledge of computer technology and genius level skills wins some of the tests, but others are more physical and one of the other interns puts her down every time! On one of their training days, they are put onto the cases of two missing high level scientists and during this, they experience their first blackout.
The UNID should have powerful backup generators but these fail to work as well, whilst the blackouts last. Everyone, including the interns are put onto the case. Quinn finds some clues, but feels she can’t trust telling her mother, somehow she is involved or implicated in some of what she has found. The only person she can trust on her side is her combat mentor who has been giving her extra one-to-one combat lessons early every day. She tells her what she has found and it leads them to realising that the temporary blackouts may not be quite so temporary.
This leads directly onto book one, Waypoint and the fantastic new characters we meet there. This novella is 140 pages long, so isn’t a short introduction to the series like some may do. It gives you some beefy background and infill for the main characters and what is happening as the world begins to go black, bit by bit, and what those in charge attempt to do to stop it. It’s a fantastic introduction and its length gives a far better feel for what is to come than a shorter novella or short story might. I actually read Waypoint before coming across this book, so it showed me what their world was like before the power went off permanently. What UNID actually did and how its agents worked. Now I just have to read the next in the series, Constellation! I received an ARC copy of this book from the authors and I have freely given my own opinion of the book above.
January 2, 2020
Quinn Lehi is smart, ambitious, and desperately wants a job with the United Nations Investigation Department, a global FBI in 20167. There are two problems standing in her way: her mother is the agency’s director, and several fellow interns hate her. In a live exercise, the team is tasked to find who robbed a major bank, recover the stolen goods, and apprehend the bandits. With the help of an intern she is sweet on, Quinn solves the case, which fuels further resentment from the others. A power outage instigated by a terrorist group affects the whole world. Services fail and lawlessness breaks out. UNID is desperate to identify the group and restore the power grid. For Quinn, the case becomes personally and professionally challenging when she discovers that her mother might be involved.
‘Intel’ is a delightful novelette, the story told with polished ease by Deborah Adams & Kimberley Perkins. Quinn Lehi is a charming character, full of irrepressible energy, drive, and ambition. The UNID training course presents challenges she must resolve if she is to secure a permanent position, but first, she must overcome professional and emotional hurdles. The intern team are characters readers will readily identify with, and the obstacles they throw at Quinn only makes readers cheer for her. Once started, it would be easy to go through ‘Intel’ in one read, anxiously turning pages to find out what happens next. Young readers not overly concerned with plotting will be twisting their fingers as Quinn faces and overcomes every challenge and obstacle thrown in her path to succeed.
‘Intel’ is a delightful novelette, the story told with polished ease by Deborah Adams & Kimberley Perkins. Quinn Lehi is a charming character, full of irrepressible energy, drive, and ambition. The UNID training course presents challenges she must resolve if she is to secure a permanent position, but first, she must overcome professional and emotional hurdles. The intern team are characters readers will readily identify with, and the obstacles they throw at Quinn only makes readers cheer for her. Once started, it would be easy to go through ‘Intel’ in one read, anxiously turning pages to find out what happens next. Young readers not overly concerned with plotting will be twisting their fingers as Quinn faces and overcomes every challenge and obstacle thrown in her path to succeed.
December 29, 2018
Good introduction to an interesting world and characters
I really enjoyed this book! I went into it without having read the novel Waypoint, so I was a blank slate regarding my expectations. I liked Quinn and how her relationship with her mother changed throughout the book. I also liked the friends she made along the way and how she put away differences in order to figure out the mystery of the missing scientists. Despite the short length, there was plenty of character development.
The world in Intel is similar enough to ours but with the classic telltale sign of years in the future: automatic driving cars, data-pads, etc. It was a believable future and thus caused me to want to learn more about it.
The ending of the book seemed to cut short suddenly and I was somewhat surprised that it was over. However, it makes sense; this is a prequel and does its job of whetting my appetite for more.
I really enjoyed this book! I went into it without having read the novel Waypoint, so I was a blank slate regarding my expectations. I liked Quinn and how her relationship with her mother changed throughout the book. I also liked the friends she made along the way and how she put away differences in order to figure out the mystery of the missing scientists. Despite the short length, there was plenty of character development.
The world in Intel is similar enough to ours but with the classic telltale sign of years in the future: automatic driving cars, data-pads, etc. It was a believable future and thus caused me to want to learn more about it.
The ending of the book seemed to cut short suddenly and I was somewhat surprised that it was over. However, it makes sense; this is a prequel and does its job of whetting my appetite for more.
December 10, 2018
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