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like the authors creativity in naming the telepathic cats are called STAC which is cats backwards,

Story was good but I wasn't turning the pages lost in the story

I like the story's premise, but find it has formatting and grammatical errors.
While I applaud the author's effort to create a new world, her writing style and tone come off very modernday and a bit passive.
The characters don't jump off the page at you, but they are still quite likable, I probably won't read the rest of this series, I think this is going to be a nice series, But this fell under the spell of so many first novels in series and had way too much character development, front end story and sorry! boring plot lines.
I realize what the author was trying to do and I applaud the effort but I just didnt get a whole lot out of this book until well into the middle.


However, I think this has the potential to be a majorly awesome series, I loved the main characters and cant wait to find out how she learns to kick tail in future books.
The plot was well thought out and the characters well developed,

I recommend this as a means to an end, Without this novel the rest of the series would be harder to understand, You need to wade through this one to get to the good stuff, Not to say this doesnt have good stuff, because it does and I enjoyed the ending very much, But as a standalone book

there is way too much time spend on character and plot development,
Read the full review at: sitelink blogspot. com At the age of four, Lina discovered she could start fires with a mere thought a trait which had died out long ago.
Cautioned by her telepathic cat, Tosh, she kept this Elemental power a secret to avoid being an outcast, That was easy to do growing up in the remote grasslands of Zena,

Now an adult, she had no plans to leave her beloved homeland, So when a strange urge compels her to travel north to an unknown destination, Lina resists this unnatural feeling.
But her plans to stay in Zena are taken out of her control when she is kidnapped by gypsies and wakes in a foreign land.
The desire to travel north is as strong as ever, She fears she will have no choice but to give into the compulsion, When a raging fire prevents her return home, she realizes she must find out once and for all what or who is summoning her.


On her journey, Lina befriends an odd assortment of allies, Together they battle mystical creatures and unnatural forces despite the fact that such magic had died out overyears ago.
Lina reluctantly begins to use her innate Elemental power as she becomes more certain that someone is using magic against her.
When she discovers the shocking truth, it will change her life in ways she could never imagine,

Summoned is the first book in The Elemental Trilogy, The promise is alright but the writing leaves something tone desired, There didn't seem to be any depth to this book, Even the fight scenes came across as forced and the relationship between Val and Lina seemed to have only been included because romance is almost a given in most fantasy books these days.
If more work was done on fleshing the characters and making the world the author has created appear more vividly, then this book could be quite good.

On a more personal preference, the fact that Lina is so afraid and hesitant to use her powers really bugged me.
I understand she's eighteen, but hnestly, if someone's trying to kill you, wouldn't you want to survive using whatever means you had at your disposal Those type of characters really do bug me.

I won't be reading the next two books at stage, Set in a mystical land, this book was a refreshing change from many of the "spinoff" paranormal/fantasy books that have made their way into the market.
The characters were deep and interesting, and the writing style was unique and welldone,
The story follows Lina as she finds herself fighting an urge to leave her known life behind and head north to the unknown.
Along the way, she is captured by gypsies, saved by a knight, and makes friends with a motley assortment including a former thief and a large black dragon.

As a cat lover, I especially loved the character Tosh, who is Lina's faithful telepathic cat,
There were still a few grammatical/spelling errors in this book, but overall I still felt it was worthy ofbecause the story made up for the errors.
Susan Leigh Noble has always loved to read, She has been writing since childhood anything from poetry, short stories, news articles and finally full length fantasy novels.
She has always loved dragons, magic and cats so it is no wonder she put them all together in her “The Elemental” trilogy.
She has also written The Search, a short story featuring one of the characters from her trilogy as well as The Heir to Alexandria, a stand alone fantasy adventure.
When she isnt writing, Susan is an active volunteer in her neighborhood and at her childrens school, She lives with her husband, two children, three cats and her dog in Texas, Susan Leigh Noble has always loved to read, She has been writing since childhood anything from poetry, short stories, news articles and finally full length fantasy novels.
She has always loved dragons, magic and cats so it is no wonder she put them all together in her “The Elemental” trilogy.
She has also written "The Search," a short story featuring one of the characters from her trilogy as well as "The Heir to Alexandria," a stand alone fantasy adventure.
When she isn't writing, Susan is an active volunteer in her neighborhood and at her children's school, She lives with her husband, two children, three cats and her dog in Texas, sitelink.