Get Started On Destiny (Experimental Heart, #1) Illustrated By Shannon Pemrick Issued In Paper Edition

people could never kill without regret,

I dont have that luxury, Im an artificial creation who exists solely to follow the orders of a tyrannical maniac, Death is the only constant I know,

I want more, so Im running,

Shannon begins another adventure that will snag your interest and hold it till the very end,

I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review, This is the first book in the Experimental Heart series, The main character, Eira, has been engineered to be a killer, designed to kill without feelings, in a war of someone elses making, She was a commander in the Dalatrend army, but was a failure at everything she did, Her creator deemed her imperfect, for showing emotion and tried to destroy her, Her only chance was to run and try to be free,

Only problem with that was that now instead of being a killer, she was now the hunted, Hunters were set after her, beings specially created to hunt and track people, when she took the chance to run, She has been on the run for years, When she gets caught up with and is near death, she sees a dragon, She isnt sure if it is real as they are not common nowadays and she has never seen one before, His name is Raikidan and he offers to help her go back and get revenge against Zarda, her creator and the one who wanted rid of his failure!

The only problem is that Eira is used to being a solitary person and wasnt made to have emotions or even feel anything.
She has no idea if she can trust the dragon and why he would want to help her, She meets up with some of her old colleagues and joins the rebels fight against Zarda, Zarda however has been busy doing more experimentation and creating more advanced Brutes and other fighters,

Its an interesting book, with some unlikely mixings of characters, Those nuhumans, created to kill and feel nothing, but some like Eira are faulty in this requirement and deemed failures to be destroyed, The relationship between her, her old friends and Rai is complex and I like how the dragon differences and the nuhuman nonemotive states are brought to play, making the interaction of the characters more interesting.


I received an ARC copy of this book from Hidden Gems and I have freely given my own opinion of the book above.

What a book!! Destiny is the first in this series, and I am definitely going to be checking out the rest!
The author has created a rich world and filled it with likeable three dimensional characters.
Each have their quirks some you will love, . . some you won't.
There's plenty of action in the storyline, though I think the plot was a little lacking i feel this book is being used to set the world and characters up for the following books, so I am super interested to see what happens next.
This book was amazing! It has a little bit of everything! If you enjoy fantasy, paranormal, science fiction, humor, adventure, and I could go on and on.
The characters and the story are very detailed, This is a great long story and I had a hard time putting it down, I kept thinking, I'll put it down at the next chapter, and then I just had to go on, I can not wait to read the next in the series! Oh and I LOVE LOVE LOVE this cover! Fantastic!!

I was gifted an ARC in return of an honest review.
Note: I got this book for free from the author in exchange for an honest review

Get ready to sit and read this book for a while it is quite long and that might put off some readers, thankfully I converted it into an audio book which made the whole process quicker.
However, this book has a interesting mix of genres, I was a bit torn between some of these crossovers going into this book but ultimately it works out quite well, The two characters are fun together as they kind of have a love/hate relationship at first the dragon being my favorite character, It is interesting that he seemly has the ability to transform back and forth between beast and human, which kind of reminded me of a recent episode of Face Off very cool.
The cover is stunning I must add as it has a beautiful graphic novel style in fact this whole book feels like it could be an amazing graphic novel.
I would also mention there is an enormous about of dialogue, which the author should be commended for,

There are a few issues, mostly with grammar and the overuse of swearing, As for the grammar it isn't a killer for this book but the author does tend to overuse the same words during a few paragraphs, for example: 'I grunted as I twirled up my hair and clipped in the hairclip underneath it, letting the top portion of my hair to flow over the hairclip.
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Nevertheless, Experimental Heart is a interesting beginning to a larger story that is worth reading if you stick with it, Too scattered

This story had so much promise but it became more difficult to read as the story developed, There were too many moving parts and not enough background, The main character was unbelievably adolescent in her behaviour and her dragon beau lacking, Found myself skipping pages hoping the story would improve, . . I picked this up free from Kindle, Its not my favorite genre, but I was needing something to read so
I loved this book, The characters are well developed, especially the main protagonist, It starts out with a classical fantasy backdrop in a mysterious wood inhabitrd by preindustrial villagers, elves, a dragon, and other creatures, But even in this setting, the book acknowledges science and physics, drawing a clear delineation between natural and magical forces,
The goals is clear as our heroine sets off on her quest, The set changes from medieval wilderness, to a modern cityscape, complete with modern nightclubs blaring loud music and laser shows, As hard as it is to imagine, the transition felt seamless,
As a male, Indie, author who has written with a female voice, I was fascinated to read a real female voice from a female author.
She spent much more time describing clothing than I would have, Ill know better in my next book,
Unfortunately, this is bookin abook series, so there is no real resolution, If you want to know how it all ends, youll need to get more books, If the nextare as good as this one, it will be time and money well spent, Shannon Pemrick is a new author for me, but based on her Destiny Experimental Heart Book, Im promising myself that we will become well acquainted.
I love the concept of this book, with its lead Eira seeking to escape from a her life as a designed emotionless tool of war.
I love how she is drawn to Raikidan and the whole way that a dragon is brought into the tale, I love the plot and writing, and supporting cast, Generally I pretty much live this novel, But for the fact that Im literally dictating this review to my husband from my hospital bed I could go on and on with praises the book definitely deserves it.
Since I cant do that I will simply note that the book is most definitely one to read, it is easy to highly recommended and Im definitely looking forward to book.
Dragon, Shamans, Elementalists, Elves, Dwarves, Ghosts, never ending magical library with multiple world spanning entrances, books that can be read by placing your hands on them.
Oh how I want to live in this world! Not as a human because that would suck, slavery, not fun, But surprise, surprise I want to be a dragon, I'm tied between being a black or a red dragon, I think I could handle being a mix like Rai, While being a NuHuman sounds like it could be fun but I'm not into the drama that seems to be part of their nature, Eira drives me crazy with her, I don't feel emotions when that is literally all she does in feels things then tries to hide form her self, she more human than she wants to see or admit.
Can we say denial!! Why yes we can, DENIAL!!!!! Drama!!!!!!!!! Definitely want to be a dragon, Really enjoyed it

The author did an amazing job of blending scifi and fantasy in this book, I feel like the background is well built, The characters are interesting and individual, There is a little pov change, But not so much as to be irritating, Pov changes in general bug me, but it was well done here, . The only complaint I had was that in some scenes I found my attention wandering as I waited for stuff to happen, Although that could be more because I easily get bored and lose focus then anything to do with the story, I really wanted to like this book it has a lot of potential,

The main character Eira is a nuhuman, genetically engineered to be stronger and faster than ordinary humans, She was trained as an assassin, escaped her former master, and is on the run from Hunters trying to kill her,

A shape shifting dragon Rai saves her life and goes with her to kill her former master,



Eira was a really difficult character to like, For saying she has no emotions and no friends, she has emotions shes denying and even more friends she treats poorly,

I was hoping it would develop her character and it might later in the series, but it really doesnt in book one,


This book

could use a big round of editing, For overpages, not a lot of plot happens,

I really liked how Rai is unconsciously protective of Eira, and how its a slow build to a relationship, but I just couldnt focus on the book.
I was hoping to like this book more, The beginning of the book when we first meet Eira and Rai is really good, The pacing is good and I like the characterization, Once the duo make it to the city it just falls flat, Chapter after chapter it is basically the same things happening that lead really nowhere,

The reason I am continuing the series is because I like Rai and Eira, Also, the last line will make me read the next book just to figure out how,

I hope things pick up, .