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What would you do if you were stranded in 2081, with no way back to the present? What if only one person knew the truth about what had happened to you? A person you could neither trust nor work with…
Immersed in a future where Earth has become severely overpopulated and cannot support its fourteen billion inhabitants, the dire consequences are more terrible than Olivia and DeAnn ever considered: scarcity of water, famine, overcrowding, mass animal extinctions and human life now considered worthless.
Even if Olivia and DeAnn manage to fool the future Programme into believing that they are real Agents, they’re woefully underqualified and have no idea what they’re doing. Little do they know that their lives are now in more peril than ever; the Programme is not what it seems…
Forced by circumstances to become reluctant partners, they are sent to Uganda, where they uncover a conspiracy by a pharmaceutical company to conduct medical tests on the local population. Will Olivia and DeAnn find a way to become the Agents they are supposed to be? It’s unlikely that they will make it out of Uganda alive unless they learn to work together…
Torn is the second book in The Beautiful Ones trilogy, a series of exciting adventure thrillers set in an unsettling new world, while delivering entertaining and thought-provoking action.
If you like heart-stopping thrillers with a political edge then you’ll love O.M. Faure’s compelling look at the future that awaits us.
Buy Torn to discover how the globetrotting story unfolds!
312 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 5, 2019
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O.M. Faure
8 books13 followersO. M. Faure studied political science at Sciences Po in Paris, before obtaining a Master’s degree in International Affairs at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in Boston.
She has worked at the United Nations in Geneva and has extensive experience as a change and transformation manager in several banks over the last twenty years.
Today, she is a Principal at a Scenario Planning consulting firm, and she lectures and coaches at the Hult International Business School.
Based in London, O. M. Faure is a feminist, a Londoner, a Third Culture Kid, an enthusiastic singer, and a budding activist.
She has worked at the United Nations in Geneva and has extensive experience as a change and transformation manager in several banks over the last twenty years.
Today, she is a Principal at a Scenario Planning consulting firm, and she lectures and coaches at the Hult International Business School.
Based in London, O. M. Faure is a feminist, a Londoner, a Third Culture Kid, an enthusiastic singer, and a budding activist.
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July 31, 2019
If you hated DeAnn in Chosen (or Olivia), by the end of Torn you'll love them both. There's plenty to love and hate in Torn. I expect you'll love Kitsa, Rosebell and Edigold but hate the KEW mission agents and Omony with a passion. This is an action packed story, vividly told - and the fight scenes make me wonder if the author herself has done some fight training! But despite the action, despite the fact that Torn opens with tension that escalates and escalates, despite the fact that every escape scene ups the stakes and risks against the last, the skill of O. M. Faure's work is that there's plenty of room for humour and light moments. The pace is just right. Woven into the dangerous, high stakes mission, there's plenty of pull for us to truly feel for the characters and be invested in their unlikely survival - and their equally unlikely reconciliation. One could say this book is a polemic. Surely the subject of overpopulation, (is it real or perceived?) takes everyone's emotional conflict level from 0-100 (even in 2019) in 60 seconds flat. And in Torn's 2081, can you believe it, the same debates continue along the same lines as they do today! But you discover that in passing - because boy is the action of the story what's driving you to turn those pages! You're going to enjoy this one! (I received an advanced copy of Torn in exchange for an honest review).
September 18, 2019
The second book in the Cassandra Trilogy #1, Torn is exactly as the title describes. You become torn about ethics and morality. O.M Faure goes deeper than in Chosen to highlight the possibilities of what is to come.
In Torn, you start to get the flesh and bones of Olivia and DeAnn, your relationship with both characters change and you start to see that they really aren't what you expected from the first book. DeAnn especially has a huge amount of growth throughout this book.
I read this pretty much straight after I finished Chosen. I bought both Torn and United (book 3) together and once I had finished Chosen at around 2 am, I had to start Torn as cliffhangers bug me and, well, it just made me start reading.
The middle part of the story is quite possibly the most hard-hitting and morally difficult to read. Faure gives us more home truths about a future that makes Nuclear War look like a picnic at the beach.
I am so glad I got the opportunity to jump into this world. Not only have I been entertained, but I have also genuinely started to think about the issues raised and have started to wonder how I can do my little part to make a change. I won't say that this will happen for everyone who reads the Trilogy, but each one who does can only help the cause.
In Torn, you start to get the flesh and bones of Olivia and DeAnn, your relationship with both characters change and you start to see that they really aren't what you expected from the first book. DeAnn especially has a huge amount of growth throughout this book.
I read this pretty much straight after I finished Chosen. I bought both Torn and United (book 3) together and once I had finished Chosen at around 2 am, I had to start Torn as cliffhangers bug me and, well, it just made me start reading.
The middle part of the story is quite possibly the most hard-hitting and morally difficult to read. Faure gives us more home truths about a future that makes Nuclear War look like a picnic at the beach.
I am so glad I got the opportunity to jump into this world. Not only have I been entertained, but I have also genuinely started to think about the issues raised and have started to wonder how I can do my little part to make a change. I won't say that this will happen for everyone who reads the Trilogy, but each one who does can only help the cause.
December 7, 2019
Fast paced read. Excellent sequel to Chosen. More action and the plot is easily understood. Events move at an easy to follow pace. Can't wait to see how this series ends.
January 11, 2020
Better than the 1st book. Very intriguing and extremely thought provoking
May 9, 2020
A fantastic adventure
This author has woven a gripping adventure story that takes pace 60 years in the future with two very different women time travelers from the early 21st century. There was an ove-powering feeling of despondency and guilt while reading about the unsurvivable conditions in sub-Sahara Africa might be in the future. The author describes these conditions with amazingly believable prose. If you like stories with a strong female lead who uses her intelligence to overcome adversity, ten this book is well worth it.
This author has woven a gripping adventure story that takes pace 60 years in the future with two very different women time travelers from the early 21st century. There was an ove-powering feeling of despondency and guilt while reading about the unsurvivable conditions in sub-Sahara Africa might be in the future. The author describes these conditions with amazingly believable prose. If you like stories with a strong female lead who uses her intelligence to overcome adversity, ten this book is well worth it.
June 19, 2020
4.5 stars. Exciting, educational, frightening. Population explosion, water shortagea, corruption. This is real. I will have to get the third book.
July 3, 2020
This is book 2️⃣
It's all singing all dancing, globetrotting, time-travelling thriller. It's an absolute jaw dropping master piece. Torn is a must read. Highly recommended A 5 🌟 read.
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It's all singing all dancing, globetrotting, time-travelling thriller. It's an absolute jaw dropping master piece. Torn is a must read. Highly recommended A 5 🌟 read.
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March 6, 2021
Gripping narrative, future alert! Opens your mind to what could and probably will happen, graphic and sometimes alarming, very thought provoking but unfortunately possibly inevertable!
August 14, 2019
A compassionate and engaging portent of a very plausible near future. This is the second book in the trilogy, with the main characters Olivia and Deann carrying the plot through some gut-wrenching scenes, with danger, sorrow, futility, occasional joy, humour and lots of love, lacing the narrative throughout. Ms. Faure is able to write fiction with an accurate scientific backbone, making it even more palatable, and often impossible to put down. The action is told in a first-hand style which makes it more compelling. The "food for thought" on offer here is amazing, and I am constantly thinking about the human impact to this planet, and how we might make things better for our great grandchildren if we act now. Quite something for a work of fiction! This trilogy is thoroughly recommended.
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