About Elemental Rush: Eighteen-year-old Adam Gillman has trained for
twelve years to earn a coveted spot on the Supreme Elemental’s elite sentry
squad. His brother, Felix, is the commander, but Adam is still thrilled when
his official assignment to serve Alexander Pederson comes.
He moves into nicer quarters and can stop getting up at four a.m. to complete
his mandated work out time. He still rises early though, because he needs the
solitude of early morning to practice his airmaking Element—something that Adam
has kept secret from everyone, even Felix, because he can’t be both an Airmaker
and a sentry.
When Alex assigns him to kill a group of rogue Elementals, he balks at
completing his mission for the first time. See, his only friend is Isaiah
Hawking, and he’s the Earthmover on the accused Council. When faced with the
prospect of killing him, Adam finds he can’t do it.
He’s well trained in assassination, but he thought he’d be murdering bad
guys—not innocents.
When Alex buries the Elemental Academy—and kills over one thousand
Elementals—in a fit of rage, Adam’s loyalty cracks. When he discovers that Alex
is really a woman, and his brother’s lover, he defects. He hops from city to
city, from Elemental school to Elemental school, always escaping only minutes
before Felix can embed a knife in his heart or a tsunami can make a classroom
his watery grave.
He tries to fight back, but he’s just one Airmaster with exceptional tracking
skills. He does his best to warn those in danger, but as the last Elemental
school goes up in flames, he knows he needs to get some real firepower on his
side.
ELEMENTAL RUSH is a prequel novella to the full-length futuristic fantasy
novel, ELEMENTAL HUNGER, which is also available now.
About Elemental Hunger: The second installment in the Elemental series, a
new futuristic fantasy for young adults and new adults, ELEMENTAL HUNGER is a
full-length novel.
Sixteen-year-old Gabriella Kilpatrick can shoot fire from her hands, which
would be great if she didn’t get blamed for a blazing inferno that kills 17
schoolmates. When Gabby is commanded to Manifest her Element, everyone knows
what she is: a genetic abnormality. Not to mention guilty.
So she does two logical things to survive.
1. She runs.
2. She hacks off her hair to assume a
new role—that of “Gabe”, because in her world, only boys are Firemakers.
Not only does she have to act like a guy, she has to pretend to know everything
a Firemaker should know. When Gabby meets Airmaster Adam Gillman, he believes
her act and pledges to serve on “Gabe’s” Council. But Adam has the mark of a
sentry and spent years obeying Alex, the Supreme Elemental. And Alex wants
Gabby-the-genetic-freak dead and gone before she can gather the magical
protection of a full Council.
With Adam’s lies that sound like truths and rumors that Alex isn’t really a
Firemaker—or a man—Gabby sets out to charter a Council of her own. In order to
uncover the truth, Gabby will have to learn who she can trust, how to control
her own power, and most of all, how to lead a Council of Elementals, most of
whom have more control over their power than she does. If she can’t, she’ll
find herself just like those 17 schoolmates: burned and six feet under.
Look for the third and final installment, ELEMENTAL RELEASE, an Elemental
novella, coming on July 2, 2014.
About Elana: Elana Johnson is the author of
the Possession series,
which includes full-length novels POSSESSION, SURRENDER, and ABANDON, and short
stories REGRET (ebook only) and RESIST (free). She is also the author of
ELEVATED, a young adult contemporary romance novel-in-verse.
Her novella, ELEMENTAL RUSH, began a new futuristic fantasy
series. ELEMENTAL HUNGER, a full-length novel, is the second part of the story.
The series will conclude with ELEMENTAL RELEASE, the final novella, which will
release on July 2, 2014.
Elana wishes she could experience her first kiss again, tell
the mean girl where to shove it, and have cool superpowers like reading minds
and controlling fire. To fulfill her desires, she writes young adult novels.
She runs a personal blog on publishing and is a founding author of the
QueryTracker blog, a regular contributor to The League of Extraordinary
Writers, and a co-organizer of WriteOnCon.
MY REVIEW
So, I didn't realized in reading Elemental Hunger that I was coming into the series in book 2. Guess that means I'll have to go back and read Elemental Rush! And that I can now be excited about the third book in the series. Thank goodness, I'll only have to wait a few weeks!
Regardless, you can read this as a stand alone book. But if you're a fan of Ms. Johnson's Possession series, like me, you won't want to miss a word of this trilogy.
I was impressed to find that this book has a decidedly different voice to it than her other series. That takes work for an author. And I liked it. I liked it a lot! There is also a new well-crafted world to explore.
Gabby is a strong girl, with likable vulnerabilities, that I can get behind. I like the way she thinks and responds to the world around her. And it is a crazy elemental world she has to navigate.
The rest of the characters are just as developed. The writing on par with the high standard at which Ms. Johnson consistently works.
No swear words, unless you count BLAZES!, which I don't. It's one of my fave sayings of Gabby's.
A few intense kisses, but no nudity or sex. A word of caution, there are rape references, not an actual rape though. I would keep this one to 16+ and read it first to be sure your young adult would be comfortable in that regard only.
This was the first book I've read by Ms. Johnson that I didn't want to throw against the wall when I finished. This one for me had the best closure of her books.
While Ms. Johnson tends to stick to writing YA, her works are for everyone who enjoys good writing and adventure.
Where will her imagination take us next?
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