Unnatural

by Luke Fitzpatrick

To the Unnatural mind, what appears natural, is your unnatural. So how can you be sure, which is which?


Leo is a young teenager tormented by the roaming voices of others. Despite the attempts of therapy, the voices still remain, creeping in the corners of his mind. But he is not the only one cursed with a gift, across the ocean a young girl discovers that she shares her body with a monstrous beast. As they slowly learn to control these new powers, it isn't long before they find others like them and their worlds begin to change forever.


As the sick and twisted horrors that endlessly pursue them begin to catch up with their innocent lives, it is only a matter of time before they uncover the full extent of their new-found abilities.

512 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 23, 2021

Reviews

[Dana-Adriana B. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great book. I was pleased to meet young teenagers all around the world with new strange powers and how they are trying to learn to leave with it.I enjoyed all the characters but I did not like all the swearing, it would have been great without, in my opinion.
"I received a complimentary copy of this book. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own." Thanks to Netgalley, the publisher and the author for this book.

[Sally Mander · Rating 3 out of 5]

UNNATURAL by Luke Fitzpatrick 3 stars

REMINDS YOU OF X-MEN SERIES

This book will remind you of the X-Men series that is of action and sci-fi genres. This novel is of horror, sci-fi, and fantasy genres. Teenagers from around the globe are finding out that they have super abilities. Not necessarily abilities they are happy to have, but abilities that they can't get rid of or change.

The teens with these astounding abilities are slowly able to control these abilities and come together to work as a team. This changes the earth forever.

The blurb appealed to me, but I found after several attempts to read the book, I was unable to get interested in the book. It would probably appeal to you if you appreciated the horror, sci-fi, and fantasy genres.

I received a complimentary copy of #unnatural @unnatural from #netgalley @booksgosocial #booksgosocial I was under no obligation to post a review.

[Josephine Greenland · Rating 3 out of 5]

I've never been a big Sci-fi reader, but was intrigued by the premiss and concept of this novel. Unnatural follows multiple characters across the world who discover they possess supernatural abilities, from the gift of flight, mind-reading, to transforming into bear-like creatures. The setting for each character is vastly different, and the reader is transported from the US to Tokyo and Sweden, to name a few. Each setting has been carefully researched and is realistically depicted, although I found the omniscient narrator a bit too intrusive and subjective at times. I would also have liked to see a clearer link between the multiple perspectives - as it is, the various plot strands are rather scattered: a couple of them could probably have been cut to make the story tighter and quicken the pace. At times, I felt the dialogue could have been more nuanced as well. Overall though, Unnatural is a good read if you enjoy action-packed Sci-fi with multiple narrators.

[Cj Reads Reviews · Rating 2 out of 5]

I had some expectations with this one and sadly it just didn't quite deliver. I was expecting a dark mystery book but what I got was a mediocre book that was a mash up between Xmen and a superhero comic book suitable for a teenager minus the offensive scenes and language.

The part that really did it for me was Johnathens chapters. Every sentence he had with his friend contained at least one swear word. Now I'm not a prune when it comes to vulgar language but this was just painfully unbearable. It ruined the book for me. At first I tried to skip those chapters but in the end I missed so much of the story, I couldn't keep up with what was going on.

But thank you to Netgalley and BooksGoSocial for the gifting of the ARC.

[S.A. Adams · Rating 4 out of 5]

**Was given a free copy in exchange for an honest review**

Unnatural reminds me very much of the tv series Heroes in which people around the world find themselves with superpowers. The author has a great imagination, and fans of comic book-style action will not be disappointed. I especially like the section when Tyler goes through his transformation. I think it is one of the best-written POV's and I wish the entire book was written like that.

My only negative feedback was I think there were actually too many characters, and it took quite a number of pages in order to get the actual plot going. I think this book would be better served if it were broken down into three parts!

[Ciarrah Fernandez (BeautyandtheBook94) · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book was so difficult to get through. It was too drawn out and would benefit from being shortened. There are too many different character storylines within the book and the characters wind of blurring together. I often forgot who had what ability. Also, it took WAY too long to bring the characters together. I lost interest in everyone doing their own thing and needed the main plot to kick in much sooner than it did to keep me hooked. I just felt like I was reading 5+ different stories which was confusing and not enjoyable. This book gives off X-men vibes so it may be something someone enjoys but I would not recommend this to anyone.


TW: attempted sexual assault, murder

[Chelsea · Rating 3 out of 5]

Thank you Netgalley for the advance reader copy of Unnatural by Luke Fitzpatrick in exchange for an honest review. This was an interesting book. I am fascinated by the idea of people having supernatural powers, what would it be like to be able to fly, read people's minds, turn invisible, or change into something else? How much would our personality or base nature affect our actions? If a moral person had powers would they act differently than an immoral one?

[Melanie (words.aremagic)]

The formatting of this book is very confusing. There are no page breaks so the transitions between scenes is jolting. This sometimes also makes it difficult to tell who is speaking or if something is being thought rather than said. As a result, I stopped reading this book.