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Author: Jennifer Alsever
Narrator: Moira Todd
Series: Trinity Forest Series, Book 1
Publisher: Sawatch Publishing
Released: Sep. 7, 2017
Genre: Young Adult, Paranormal
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Author Jennifer Alsever delivers an addictive story ideal for fans of The Uglies, We Were Liars, and Before I Fall about a teen grieving over her parent’s tragic death who becomes entangled with a mysterious forest teeming with urban legends of strange disappearances and witchcraft.
Ember Trouve used to be alive, driven to become a musician and on a path to college. That was before her parents died. One day, after venturing into the fabled Trinity Forest, she goes missing. Now, Ember must confront the truth behind her parents’ death – or lose herself to the forest forever.
In this fresh and compelling novel, Jennifer Alsever creates a paranormal world of loss, mystery, love, and survival as Ember searches for escape – and a path back to herself. Ember Burning is the first installment of the three-book Trinity Forest series.
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A teenager still lives inside author Jennifer Alsever. She spent two decades as a professional journalist, contributing to such publications as Fortune Magazine, the New York Times, Inc Magazine and the Wall Street Journal, before letting her imagination run wild in 2016. The result is Ember’s story told in the three-book Trinity Forest Series, her first published fiction work.
When not absorbed in writing, Alsever enjoys a good hike, doing some yoga, hanging with her boys, some moguls on skis, a rigorous mountain bike ride or indulging in the simple pleasures of life. Her favorites: untouched snow, frozen chocolate chips, savasina on a yoga mat and yes, bowls of pan fried brussels sprouts. Jennifer is working on her upcoming novel, Psychic Monkeys, to be released in 2019.
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Moira Todd is a Washington, DC-based actor. She originally hales from Mt. Hood, Oregon where the trees are always green, the mountain is always pointy, and the weather is usually rainy. It was there that she learned the secret arts of alpine skiing and whistling at the same time as you hum. While neither has proved useful in her theatre career, she remains hopeful. These days she spends most of her free time swimming, baking bread, and watching whale documentaries.
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I received these audiobooks as part of my participation in a blog tour with Audiobookworm Promotions. The tour is being sponsored by Jennifer Alsever. The gifting of these audiobooks did not affect my opinion of them.
Ember is a teenager whose parents died in a car accident. She was also in the accident but not only survived it, she blames herself for it. She was once a good student but she doesn’t care any more. She’s alienated her best friend and has even started popping pills.
And then Ember goes to Trinity Forest. It’s a place that the people from her town stay away from because so many people have disappeared there. She meets some people who seem nice, live in an amazing house, and want her to stay. It seems too good to be true…and it is. When she wants to leave, she finds out that she’s not allowed to and the gate that she entered to get onto the property no longer exists.
Jennifer Alsever does a good job making the reader feel what Ember is going through. There were times I thought she was being immature but then I remembered she’s just in high school. She’s young! The narrator, Moira Todd, also does well portraying Ember and has good timing and a good singing voice.
Ember Burning is a scary young adult book with a touch of romance and several damaged characters. It could actually end with book one but I’m glad there are more books in the series. In fact, I’m getting ready to listen to the next book and look forward to seeing what is going to happen.