I love finding new authors. Martina McAtee is now at the top of my list of MUST READ authors!
~ Lynn
~ Lynn
Children Shouldn's Play with Dead Things
By Martina McAtee
Published August 31, 2015
17 year old Ember Denning has made an art of isolating herself. She prefers the dead. She spends her days skipping school in old cemeteries and her nights hiding from her alcoholic father at the funeral home where she works. When her own father dies, Ember learns her whole life is a lie. Standing in the cemetery that’s been her sanctuary, she’s threatened by the most beautiful boy she’s ever seen and rescued by two people who claim to be her family. They say she’s special, that she has a supernatural gift like them…they just don’t know exactly what it is.
They take her to a small Florida town, where Ember’s life takes a turn for the weird. She’s living with her reaper cousins, an orphaned werewolf pack, a faery and a human genius. Ember’s powers are growing stronger, morphing into something bigger than anything anybody anticipated. Ember has questions but nobody has answers. Nobody knows what she is. They only know her mysterious magical gift is trying to kill them and that beautiful dangerous boy from the cemetery may be the only thing standing between her and death.
As Ember’s talents are revealed so are the secrets her father hid and those in power who would seek to destroy her. What’s worse, saving Ember has put her cousins in danger and turned her friend’s lives upside down. Ember must learn to embrace her magic or risk losing the family she’s pieced together.
They take her to a small Florida town, where Ember’s life takes a turn for the weird. She’s living with her reaper cousins, an orphaned werewolf pack, a faery and a human genius. Ember’s powers are growing stronger, morphing into something bigger than anything anybody anticipated. Ember has questions but nobody has answers. Nobody knows what she is. They only know her mysterious magical gift is trying to kill them and that beautiful dangerous boy from the cemetery may be the only thing standing between her and death.
As Ember’s talents are revealed so are the secrets her father hid and those in power who would seek to destroy her. What’s worse, saving Ember has put her cousins in danger and turned her friend’s lives upside down. Ember must learn to embrace her magic or risk losing the family she’s pieced together.
Review
5 STARS
This cover is da bomb! I saw it first on Facebook & then when M&M Publicity did a feature on the author, I was sold. Once you’ve read the book the cover will speak volumes. Trust me. Whoever said “never judge a book by its cover” didn’t see Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things.
The Characters
Strip away all the supernatural and you’ve got average relatable teens. The MC, Ember, just wants a family and to fit in. Kai is struggling to be noticed by his perfect guy. He just wants to be loved with the same passion he exudes. Tristin is basically a moody teenager. You gotta have a bad guy so enter Mace. Add in channeling the dead, helping souls cross over, a banshee and a soul eater and you the makings of an epic story. Oh, did I mention the werewolves and witches. This book is a supernatural plethora of goodies.
The Story
Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things is full of twists and turns you will not see coming. I laughed. I cried. I grieved. I cried some more – dang it. I held my breath and gripped the kindle. It really is a superb read. I felt Embers emotions of confusion and frustration while learning how to harness her power. I just wanted to slap Rhys for not loving Kai properly.
The Author
As debut novels go Martina McAtee NAILED IT! She weaves an epic, complicated, unique, paranormal tale with characters you love and a few you hate to love. I cannot wait to read the next book in this series.
This cover is da bomb! I saw it first on Facebook & then when M&M Publicity did a feature on the author, I was sold. Once you’ve read the book the cover will speak volumes. Trust me. Whoever said “never judge a book by its cover” didn’t see Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things.
The Characters
Strip away all the supernatural and you’ve got average relatable teens. The MC, Ember, just wants a family and to fit in. Kai is struggling to be noticed by his perfect guy. He just wants to be loved with the same passion he exudes. Tristin is basically a moody teenager. You gotta have a bad guy so enter Mace. Add in channeling the dead, helping souls cross over, a banshee and a soul eater and you the makings of an epic story. Oh, did I mention the werewolves and witches. This book is a supernatural plethora of goodies.
The Story
Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things is full of twists and turns you will not see coming. I laughed. I cried. I grieved. I cried some more – dang it. I held my breath and gripped the kindle. It really is a superb read. I felt Embers emotions of confusion and frustration while learning how to harness her power. I just wanted to slap Rhys for not loving Kai properly.
The Author
As debut novels go Martina McAtee NAILED IT! She weaves an epic, complicated, unique, paranormal tale with characters you love and a few you hate to love. I cannot wait to read the next book in this series.
Martina McAtee lives in Jupiter, Florida with her teenage daughter, her best friend, two attack chihuahua's and two shady looking cats. When she isn't writing young adult books about worlds with reapers, zombies, werewolves and other supernatural creatures she's reading or watching shows that involve reapers, zombies, werewolves and other supernatural creatures. Her debut novel Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things is set to release on August 31st, 2015. She is currently working on the second book in the Dead Things series, Dark Dreams and Dead Things, due to release in July 2016.
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