Get It Now Hunt (Freya Snow, #1) Developed By L.C. Mawson Available Through Digital Edition
by L. C. Mawson was a wonderful story to read, This is a wonderful story written by one of my favorite authors, This story is full of action and suspense threw the whole story, I read this story and mydaughters read and we all loved it very much we are looking forward to reading the next book in the series.
I highly recommend this wonderful book to all,
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review, Overall a decent start of series, I like the world the author created and connected with the characters, I wish there was more magic and I am sure there will be in future books, I did like it enough to want to continue Demon, angel or other
Loved it! Okay the first few chapters have you saying "what" but perservere it is worth it.
Who / what is she and why do others want to hurt her
The main characters are well developed and they compliment each other well.
I got this in a giveaway but will be downloading more as want to hear how she survives, For all fantasy, paranormal book readers out there you will love it, These books are short and have many time jumps, but the plot and the writing make it worth it, as well as the fact that the author is incredibly generous you can get all but the latest two books for free, legally, and the latest two books are very cheap! I quickly became invested in Freya and the drama that follows, and as a neurodivergent queer person myself love to see people like myself in fantasy.
I absolutely recommend reading these, date finished is the date for up to boook, not just this one With an intriguing prolog that promises a lot of action, we meet Freya.
After her mom decided to change the course of time, she was left alone to survive, An awkward and smart kid, Freya is a sweet teenager who only wants a place to belong, Growing up from foster house to foster house she is always afraid to do something wrong, She is a lovely character and it's easy to fall in love with her,
When a ghost appears we discover she is no regular teenager and we enter a world where magic is real, Litlle by little we learn about the different factions in an ancient war and why Freya was left alone, To accompany her we have the sweet/crazy Alice and Damon, both of them are great on their own, Of course there is a little of teenager tension between Freya and her male best friend but it's innocent and
cute,
The book is easy to read, the language is simple and understandable, The dialogues are good and the pace is steady, I liked the action in the final chapters
Overall, I think is a good and entertaining book, The story has a lot of potential and I think most characters have a long way to go,
I received a complimentary copy in exchange for an honest review, When the Earth is reduced to a smoking crater, the only thing left to do is turn back the clock,
Lily Snow, granddaughter of Death and one of the most powerful magical beings on Earth, knows that her daughter most likely wont survive in this timeline, so she gives her life to create another.
No one remembers the war between humanity and magical beings, and humanity has become altogether blissfully unaware of magic,
Freya Snow, now a sarcastic, awkward, probablyautistic teenager, has spent her whole life moving from foster home to foster home, wanting nothing more than to start living her life, rather than being stuck in the stasis of high school.
But when the ghost of her mothers mentor appears to protect her from the demons hunting her, she finds that she should have been careful with her wish for change.
The world is a dangerous place, and a pup without a pack is nothing but prey,
HUNT is a YA urban fantasy novel with a dash of scifi, It is the first book in the Freya Snow series, I really love this book! L, C. Mawson is absolutely one of my favorite authors, There is such great representation in her books, and as an autistic reader, I just fell in love with Mawson's way of expressing and establishing Freya's and Alice's autistic traits.
The characters are strong, the main character is autistic and bi, and the story is a good one, I could barely put the book down, I was so excited by the story and the world we're introduced to in this series.
Strong worldbuilding, and it only gets better as you continue through the series!
Worth the read! I highly recommend it especially if you're autistic.
It's really an experience to read about characters who have similar autistic traits as you, I certainly related quite strongly to Freya, and to Alice,year old Freya Snow is a foster kid, and heryear old sister, albeit not biologically, Alice is an autistic foster child, Freya thinks that she might have autism as well, because she has many of the signs such as having extreme anxiety while in large crowds, and being overly emotional to situations others would describe as normal.
However, because her sister is so obviously autistic, she feels that if she told anyone else that they would blame her for faking it to get more attention.
The one person whom she mentioned it to did exactly that,
Now she is moving to a new foster home, away from her sister, and to a new school, Her new foster parents seem nice, and she wants to try to smile and communicate with them, but she is not quite sure if her point is getting across that she is happy with them.
Finally, she gets to her new school, One of the girls at school starts to bother her, and so she runs into the bathroom to cry, But while she is in there, the faucets explode, Then, Amber comes to tell her what is really in her past, and how she can control her newfound magic,
This book was amazing, Personally, I have had many friends in real life ranging on all ends of the spectrum, from almost nothing showing anyone that they are autistic to nonverbal.
This book shows how just because one person's autism is manifested one way doesn't mean that everyone else is nonautistic, And the woman who wrote this book, L, C. Mawson, is actually autistic herself, However, this doesn't define her at all, because her books are just naturally amazing,
The character Freya is relate able to anyone, There is slight romance in the book, but it is the perfect amount and does not take over the story, Although Alice is a main character, she is not talked about as much in this book as I would have liked, Nevertheless, there are more books to come in this series, as this is just bookand bookis going to come out later this year.
I now have books, given to me by L, C. Mawson herself through her reader's list, and I am planning on catching up on the series as soon as humanly possible, It is amazing.
I would recommend this book to anyone looking for a series that has a sensible flow while reading, a lot of books in it, a strong female lead, a unique plotline, a reasonable amount of romance, and a lot of fun action scenes.
I really enjoyed this, It did feel fairly familiar at times magically gifted, teenaged Chosen One comes into her powers, learns from a mystical mentor, And it did show signs of being a self published first novel, mostly in the first few chapters, But I got completely engrossed, The characters, especially Freya, felt like real people, The plot, while following a familiar pattern, still had new and interesting things to offer, I'm looking forward to continuing the series, This is my honest and unbias opinion of the story, This is a wonderful story written by one of my favorite authors, This story is full of action and suspense threw the whole story, I read this story and mydaughters read and we all loved it very much we are looking forward to reading the next book in the series.
I highly recommend this wonderful book to all, A good one!
A war with supernaturals and humans that ends with a death, A baby girl born at the moment of her mothers death, It keeps you on your toes to follow this tail, I really like the characters in this book, If you enjoy good clean fast reading supernatural stories, You will enjoy the beginning of the Freya Snow series, Looking forward to reading book, I greatly enjoyed this book, Usually autism is portrayed as something negative in books and the whole point of the story is usually about the main character usually male having autism and dealing with the world around them.
This book takes those tropes and throws them on their side by having a female main character who is autistic and makes it just a part of her character but not the whole story.
The story itself is still setting the stages in this book, but it throws you right into the plot of an intriguing world.
So Hunt begins with us learning about how Freya ended up where she is and with her foster parents, When you first read this you are little confused because you are not sure what it is all about, From here you jump to Freya being in high school and you get a look at who she is, YOu learn she is a sarcastic and quiet teen who is considered on the spectrum, I think that her powers have something to do with that, Kind of like Percy Jackson series, We saw most demigods were ADD and ADHD because of the powers from their god parent, I think here is the same except We dont really know what Freya is, We dont know much about her dad or mom, You do get the feeling that they were important and powerful and so is her grandfather from the prologue but nothing else, Her bestie Damon and his family have a big role I think in Freyas story as well,
Damon and his uncles I fell in love with, They were fun and yet serious and they were very protective of Freya, Damon has no problems with Freyas personality and in fact defends her alot, You can tell though that he has some secrets he is holding back on telling her even as he learns of Freyas powers alongside her.
Freya, as she learns of her powers, has a ghost that is in her teachers body to help her, It is odd when you first see the interactions, The ghost helps Freya begin to learn about the world she is starting to come into, To me Alice, her ghost, is very slow in teaching her and I think this is because of all Alice has seen happen.
She is overly cautious. But I like her because she is genuinely trying to keep Freya safe,
Unfortunately she cannot keep her safe from whatever is stalking Freya, It begins with her just seeing the red eyes, I like the slow burn of the book and how things play out in an organic fashion, NOthing is forced but flows, The story and characters are addicting and entertaining, Watching Freya learn of who she is and seeing her use her powers and feel more comfortable with them is awesome to see.
A great beginning for the series that leaves you smiling but with questions that you cant wait to be answered, Usually when you see autism mentioned, it is associated with negativity a lack of ability to communicate or form close bonds, incorrect wiring of the brain, inability to pick up on nonverbal cues, no creativity, inability to adapt to changing conditions, etc.
There always seems to be the idea that someone with autism has something missing, In the Freya Snow books, the reverse is true, and autism is seen in a wonderfully different and positive light, While the difficulties that people with autism have, are never underplayed, autism here is sign of ABILITY, People on the autistic spectrum have magic, They are not human, but magical beings SUPERHUMAN, Ordinary neurotypical humans have difficulties relating to those on the spectrum, because they lack magic, and lack the memory of it ever existing.
Humans and the magical beings fought a bitter war, that was ended by the memories of the humans being reset, so they could not remember magic being in the world.
Both tribes now keep their distance from each other, for the safety of all,
Freya Snow is an orphan, seemingly destined to hop from one foster family to the next, with no real family or friends apart from Alice, who soon jets off to Japan.
Freya and Alice are both on the spectrum, and both used to being considered freaks with no social graces, Now, with a new foster family and a new school, Freya is prepared for another miserable temporary placement where she wont fit in.
Suddenly Freyas life changes as she discovers the hidden attributes of autism, her magic and Damon, Damon is also new at school, and is not at all put off by Freyas idiosyncrasies, Best of all, he has his own secrets, and allows Freya to keep hers, since she is forbidden to mention magic to a human.
They soon become very close friends, Freya has also acquired a ghost mentor, Amber, to teach her how to use her magic,
However, all is not rosy, Freya is being stalked by something with red eyes,
These books are compelling and addictive impossible to put down, The world that Freya Snow lives in, is so well thought out: normal, presentday Earth on the surface, but with a seething undercurrent of demons, vampyres, witches, mermaids, ghosts and others.
No group is all good or all bad, There are similarities with Harry Potters magic world versus that of the muggles, but these stories have an entirely different emphasis,
Like her heroine, the author is on the autistic spectrum, She shows such an extraordinary imagination, empathy for teenagers feelings, and talent for storytelling, that after you have read even one of these Freya Snow books, you will want to revise every preconception you have had about autism.
If you start with “Hunt” you will be overjoyed to discover that here are at leastmore books in the main series, a prequel and two books of short stories.
I read the first three books, and the short stories before drawing a breath, and now want to devour the rest, It is impossible to recommend this book highly enough,
I received this copy from the author in exchange for an honest review
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