When life hands you lemons, you can either make lemonade or lob them like hand grenades at your problems.
Nothing is going as Idina Moorfield planned. It’s what happens when magical powers you don’t know you have manifest when you least expect it.
Idina needs to make new plans, even if those plans are loosely based on her CO telling her to figure things out.
Time to make lemonade.
There’s all sorts of tasks Idina and her unit could be doing. Getting them to help out is another issue. Can she figure out how to get them to help her without asking them to help?
Then there’s the mysterious journal she received. Every time she opens it and reads it, there’s flashing green lights everywhere. What is causing it and is the journal the answer to her questions about her powers?
If she could just find a way to read it… unless it’s not meant for reading…
Another mysterious package makes its way to her. It creates more questions than answers.
Can Idina and her new unit bond and work together and prove they aren’t the misfits everyone thinks they are and can be quite useful once they’re understood? Can she figure out what’s going on with her powers and who is watching her?
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Okay, I'm a late bloomer who's a big DC comics fan and spent my childhood summers on the Jersey shore but I was born under a wandering star and have lived in different parts of America ever since. That's enough about me. Need to feel inspired today? Looking for something to make you root for an ordinary hero? I'm all about that in everything I write.
I love a good tale that makes me wonder about things and I love a story even more that leaves me feeling inspired or like I'm capable of doing more than I realized. That's my goal with everything I've ever written. Some of the stories I tell involve twisting, turning thrillers and others have a lot of magic.
There's something to be said for getting lost in another world and coming out the other side feeling a little better about yourself or the possibilities in front of you. That's basically the best part of life in a nutshell, no matter what kind of story I'm setting out to tell.
this series should 100% not be considered a series, it's more like several parts of a single book. endings are abrupt, interrupting a situation rather than leaving a cliffhanger.
I found myself captivated by Anderle's and Carr's protagonist, but after FOUR books I am still waiting for the story to start. All that has gone on so far would have made a few chapters in a great novel. Unfortunately, after each novel being shorter and shorter with less actually happening I am about done. I could tolerate entire novels of basic training and jump school, but after an entire novel centered around a squad cleaning up garbage I am done.
If you can get past this last waste of words, then good for you. The way this one ended it should only take the authors about 20 more books to get to the point!
Idina's so badass... and I seriously want her to be gay. She doesn't even have to have a love story, just knowing she's a lesbian would make me so happy. Represent!
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
Why is her magic purple on these covers? It’s explicitly stated she calls them her ‘green lights’ because magic is like a trauma word for her. Anyway the cover is a lie and my brain is off.
Is this book better than the predecessor? Yeah the series is improving but in a molasses pace. Idk how many I have left in me. Do I recommended it? No. Please save yourself. You have more life left in you than I. I am too far gone. But you, you can still save yourself. You have time. I believe in you. Go forth and prosper. **star-trek hand single (jj abrams light flares)**
I don't understand I don't understand the covers. I feel like it's some running joke for this story to have these covers at all– they don't drive with the story whatsoever. But that has nothing to do with this review. The story is Well written and easy to read. The adventures of the characters are engaging and entertaining. This is not highbrow literature by any means, but it is definitely a fantastic way to spend an evening by the fire.
I love the tantalizing mystery of this book, what I did not like is that the book is too drawn out. This is four books in the series and not a lot has happened, Martha I love your stories but you guys need to speed up the pace. Bless you for all the trials and tribulations you’ve gone through as an individual and hopefully you are through this and that the tempo of your writing will increase. Honestly your beta readers should tell you to pick up the pace of the story it is now starting to lag behind. This is why I have only given it three stars. Even if you have personal issues going on your collaborators should tell you if something‘s working or it’s not. This is a good series and well worth the read if the pace picks up.
Badly needs a competent editor. Buried under unnecessary detail. Minuscule story progress. Ended up skimming from 30% without missing any key story points.
I actually did something today, that I very rarely do.
I read a few of the reviews already posted for this book!
I have to admit that they surprised me, somewhat, as almost all of them complained about the pace of this story.
I think that, for many of these readers, they are so used to the short length of eBooks, today, that they have either forgotten, or didn't know, that each eBook is, on average, around the length of most Chapters, in the books that I've been reading for my entire 60 years OF reading.
To me, each of these books are a stepping stone in Idina's life, and the fact that they are showing us this, in minute detail, actually fascinates me, as it's in the detail, that I really experience books.
So, to me, having this particular story describing the minutiae of Idina's life, and the way in which she interacts with her SSS team, and is STILL trying, desperately, to understand how her green powers work, is a wonderful treat.
To me, a series of 7-9 'books', is really me reading a complete story, in one book, from beginning, to end.
I don't know whether it's because I'm such a voracious reader, especially of books that could be more described as 'tomes', than simple stories, & have been so, since my Mother taught me to read at age 3, or whether life has simply got so much busier, that people don't have the time to spare, to read such a large word count any more.
Whichever's the case, I've a feeling that it's those not used to larger books, that have been broken down into these smaller eBooks, who have complained that the plot goes nowhere.
It does, but this book isn't a fast-paced adventure story, but is, so far, part of a coming of age, & coming into Power story.
And I'm loving soaking up every tiny little detail that's been described in it! Lol
In fact, I'm very ready to go on to Book Five: 'Chew The Bullet', where I'm hoping that Idina gets her wish, at last, to find out just what the history of her Family, as it.pertains to her, really is - and once I've finished this, I'll catch you on the flip side, to let you know what I think of it! Lol
As someone who uses words for a living, it’s an unusual and dare I say RARE occurrence for me to be left speechless. But, despite this review which you’re reading, that is exactly the state in which the ending to this book has left me.
I’ve waxed rhetorical in many other reviews about Mike & Martha’s sadistic penchant for cliffhangers - usually of the nail-biting variety. Well, welcome to the kinder, gentler version of sadism.
There is no nail-biting cliffhanger, and large swathes of storyline have been cleared out, all of which leaves the reader feeling really good. But the can’t help themselves, I guess, because while there’s no nail biting, there IS nonetheless a brand new question/puzzle which they drop on us I the last few lines.
Don’t get me wrong. This is not a complaint. Quite the contrary, I LOVE these two and the stories they create. Do I LIKE being left hanging? No. But this is a time-honored tradition that they certainly didn’t originate, and they make such incredible use of it that I would be remiss if I did not, instead, applaud them long and loudly.
This book is not for the new reader. If you are picking it up and did not read the first four, you will be lost. Put it down and read the others first. Once you do that you will be as much in love with Idina and her world as I am.
Book four and only a three star rating. Why? I have never read a series like this. The story is okay, and that is about all I can honestly say about it. Again, I have never read a series like this for one very good reason. It is so long winded and taking far too long to get some real action and excitement going. Four books in and still in training with small incremental steps. Navigating in too much detail of army life. If I really wanted to know the process of army life, I would have asked my more than experienced brother. Four books in and still fannying about details of army life. When I read book one, I really thought this story had potential for action and excitement. Yes there were some incidents where I had a little excitement. Usually a series is full on with adventures, excitement, fighting exploration and so on. Something to get to grips with. I was desperately trying to find this after the second book at least, but no. So four books on with Idina very slowly gathering more intelligence and learning a little more of her incredible powers yet to be. The story has not progressed that well, and is indeed very heavy going. Having pre-ordered book five, I seriously hope there is more to this series than a preamble in the woods, because I will not bother with the series after book five.
Well, darn, this series is good at stretching the plot and even more very proficient at giving up just enough to keep me going. Not a millimetre, micrometer more.
I usually detest this "everything would be solved if only that one person who knows Stuff would come to the MC and, take this, SAID those Stuff to her" trope and this series felt, okay, still feels like the biggest example of this and yet... yet I am here and this is becoming only more interesting and I want to know more except I ran out of GA and might either have to go ebook or regular audio book. *taking deep breaths*
Also, there are some hints of "mastermind-ness" behind it, you know, pretty heavy-handed, but you could say Idina is growing and other characters are also just... I mean, some things you can't be just told, you have to experience them for yourself and put in the work and there are some hints of this (amidst all the super slow progress and what seems to my as a reader like obvious answers to questions she's asking).
Who knew I'd find myself here? Not me, but I can't say I regret it.
Idina's story keeps getting better and better but maybe not from Idina's point of view. In book 3 of the Warrior series Idina was working towards digging herself out of the mess in which she had gotten herself. Book 4 picks up from there. She is still working on herself but it has become so much harder for her since she has been reassigned to a new unit. The new, small unit seems to be made up of throw-away soldiers who feel about themselves the same way that the Army feels about them. How has Idina sunk so low? And, let's not get into how her "green lights" continue to act so strangely and show up at inopportune times. Someone higher up in her command has it out for Idina. What next!
I really enjoyed this book and am ready to move on to the next.
That has nothing to do with the story, but it’s still an awesome story. I love the attention to detail.
The authors do a great job of character building and showing what leadership is really about - that is lead by example.
I absolutely love the fact that the main character makes it happen. She doesn’t complain she just gets it done.
If you are looking for a book heavy in magic this isn’t it; we’ll not yet anyway. But, if you are into well written, thoughtful account about what it’s like to be in the military and how a team comes together then read this.
I can’t say I dislike this series. BUT I can’t really claim to like it either. I’m 4 books deep and I’m still waiting for something to happen. Literally every chapter/book leaves you hanging. But not with enough curiosity to bother reading more. Honestly if I wasn’t laid up with a bum back this week, I’d have already set the last two books down without a single OCD twitch of my usual need to finish something before moving on. Is it a bad story? Ehh no. Is it pretty dang boring? Kinda. It’s a series where it’s not bad and you keep thinking something has GOTTA happen on the next page…. but NOPE. Literally. Nothing.
I should have remembered from my experiences with other Anderle books. The first two were fun and complete novels. Numbers 3 and 4 were parts of a serial. Not unlike the old “Perils of Pauline” or soap operas are now in which each segment is incomplete. If I did not have a Kindle Unlimited subscription I would not have read the 4th. I definitely would not spend the asking price to buy a novel when what I got for the money was more of an episode.
Maybe because it seemed the characters were a little more organized and the end goals weren't quite so nebulous, whatever, I really enjoyed it.
Idina has most of her little flare ups with the green lights, then one giant explosion puts her in the hospital. It's as if the small episodes were building up and the explosive episode was a type of graduation.
And the SSS? That's shaping up, too. Maybe even enough to be considered a part of the actual Army.
"It didn’t matter that no one in SSS, including Idina, had any real idea how to tell if the landscaping tools and supplies were still functional or completely useless. The whole point was that they had something to do and that they’d finally fallen into a routine of working together toward any common goal." - Idina
Idina finally figured out how to motivate her new squad into a (more or less) working unit. Now... If she could just figure out the 1743 journal someone had sent her... That sends Idina to the hospital...
I keep reading this story about a misfit girl in a group of misfits. Soldiers that were tossed away. Placed in a drawer and shut away. They are all strange and have issues with the Army life. A an it is up to a girl with a strange ability she can’t understand to mold the dregs of the Army into a functioning group. It just keeps drawing me back to the next book. Maybe we are all misfits at heart.
Idina Moorefield has a talent for inspiring others around her. She starts working on cleaning a storage room out and her fellow soldiers join her in the duty. It snowballs into many different tasks that make them productive. Then her powers flair up again and she ends up in the hospital. Does that mean that her fellow soldiers will stop their work? Find out in this episode of the warrior series.
Idina has her unit working together and a name for her green stuff, Magic
Idina couldn’t stand being bored so she got busy. Her unit of misfits decided to join her, a few at a time until all were in. After she had a major attack of green stuff is started being called magic, sort of because they didn’t know what else to call it. But it still kicks her butt when it happens and she needs help handling it. The help is coming from a different way than she expected.
Just finished book 4 and now I have to wait until the end of March. I wish the books was longer but they are written for a teen audience mostly. Not a 55 year old middle aged man. In my mind I kept telling her to write the words down she was seeing. When she did, I said “Finally “ loudly. Lol. It’s a great story. Can’t wait for the next one.
Great New series but the action is missing. Anderle is giving Carr too much influence over the series. Martha likes to develop characters and provide too much detail. Michael please step in and get the story moving. The main character has been stuck in a storage room for two books!!!!! Come on!!!!
I have been waiting for this book it seems like forever. I got it and read it in one sitting. It did not disappoint, in fact, it was great. I thought of Tom Sawyer at one point that gave me a big laugh. The group is not just a bunch of screw ups now, they are individual members of the team. I can't wait for the next book.
The ending snuck up on me cuz I was completely absorbed. Nice job MA! Our heroine is doing what she was sent to HCC to do. Go figure. Lol. Unless you live under a rock you should have guessed what they wanted her to do before she did. 😆 Ving this and the major while thinking uncle Richard is a d!$¢@.
I am totally enjoying this series. I love the characters, the humor and the storyline. Idina, the main character, is slowly learning about her powers while working with a new group of soldiers and finding out each of their little quirks. I am really looking forward to the next book to see what adventure they will all get into.
The puzzle keeps growing with pieces coming together now and then. Character development of the crazy team was pretty fun, leaning on endearing. I was completely drawn in and color hardly put the book down. When is the next one coming? I’m in total suspense and don’t want to wait!
I wasn't crazy about the previous book in the series, but this one has a much better storyline. It kept my interest, and now I find myself anxiously awaiting the next one. Fortunately it's coming out in about 14 days or so. I can't wait to learn more about Idina's story and where it leads her.
A FUBAR Kind of Day, the fourth book of the Warrior series, is an ebook I borrowed through Kindle Unlimited (KU). Love Moorhouse, liking Sullivan more and more as the series progresses, we should all have a person like her in our life, and I've gained an appreciation for more of these secondary characters who really move the storyline.