While the weather is becoming worse and worse -they forecast minus 16- i decided to stay with what has become a new favorite series for me: Elemental by Brigid Kemmerer. I got this ebook when it's was free on amazon before the application stopped working for me but a good new for those who like me prefer print book, this novella- as well as the other ones- can be found in the print edition as a bonus so we could get it after those who have access to digital book but we can have them!
Elemental is the prequel of the Elemental series, however i think it's better to read it after having read Storm, of course it can be read as a stand alone but we get more of it after Storm i think
Happy Reading!
Publisher: Kensington
Publication: 2012
Genre: YA, Paranormal, romance,
fantasy
Violence: strong
Language: normal
sex: none
Public: 16+
Source: free download (and included in the print
edition of Storm)Violence: strong
Language: normal
sex: none
Public: 16+
Earth, Fire, Air, Water – they are more than you dream.
As an air Elemental, 17-year-old Emily Morgan doesn’t have much power. That’s okay—she knows what happens to kids who do.
Like Michael Merrick. He’s an earth Elemental, one with enough power to level cities. Which makes him sexy. Dangerous. And completely off limits. At least according to Emily’s family.
But her summer job puts her in close contact with Michael, and neither of them can help the attraction they feel. When forces of nature like theirs collide, one misstep could get someone killed. Because Emily’s family doesn’t just want her to stay away from him.
They want him dead.
My opinion:
This is the prequel to the Elemental series. Elemental features Michael
the oldest of the Merrick Brothers, as adolescent, years before the event set
in Storm. We discover an adolescent afraid and angry with the universe that set
him apart. He already wants to protect his family and he is feeling guilty to
put them in danger when he just wanted to be normal. He is also a bit rebellious, and confronts
his parents when they punish him instead of the culprits… in that sense he is a
lot like how Gabriel will be in the future.
While trying to keep a low profile, he
is controlling his energy by playing baseball, alone in front of the machine
yes but with the same dedication as a professional player. However, one day, he
discovers Emily, his nemesis’ sister, at the cashier and fates starts. First,
the young woman is afraid, since the beginning she always heard how the Merrick were dangerous, how Michael hurt her
brother….however when she sees the reaction of her family when she tells them
she met him. Doubts are planted. Slowly,
both adolescents will confide in each others, learn about each other while in
or around the practise cage and see that the truth is not necessary what they
thought.
If you have read Storm before reading
Elemental, you get to see Michael under a new light and you understand him
better. You also know how the story of Emily will finish because Elemental
doesn’t tell the complete story it’s not really a cliffhanger but the ending is
supposedly know and not what is the most important. I wouldn’t recommend reading this before
Storm even if it’s the prequel of the story because you will be missing too much. In storm you get this story from Chris ‘point
of view, so he doesn’t develop the feeling of both Emily and Michael. When you
read this after Storm you see how much Michael was vulnerable, how guilty he
feels when it was just a tragedy.
I
really took pleasure in reading this prequel and to see Michael younger made me
appreciate him more. Before I understood a bit the relationship between Michael
and Gabriel but I didn’t get why the older brother didn’t explain himself, why
he suffered the insults and fights without replying and this novella explain everything. So a must read for the
fan of the series
Score: 4/5
Disclaimer: All opinions are my own and
no compensation was received in exchange for this review
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