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Water (Akasha, #1)

by Terra Harmony

Series: Akasha (1)

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"All of the elemental powers are in the palm of her hand, and it won't be enough to save her. When Kaitlyn Alder is involuntarily introduced to a life of magic, she becomes part of an organization hell-bent on saving the Earth. Just as her new-found life holds promises of purpose, romance, and friendship, the organization divides and a rogue member holds Kaitlyn hostage. Now one of the most terrifying men the human race has to offer stands between her and Earth's survival."--… (more)
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I hate to write a review like this. I hate it, because I love books, and it's disappointing to me when I find one that is just this terrible to me. TRIGGER WARNINGS: Attempted rape, rape, physical abuse.

The book opens with Kaitlyn snowboarding desperately ahead of an avalanche. She doesn't make it, and the last we see of her in the opening chapter is her fingers wriggling above the snow while the rest of her is buried alive. And things go downhill from there.

When she wakes, she's locked in a mysterious room. She escapes, only to be chased down, threatened with syringes of mysterious drugs and weapons. And so on, and so on. She's told she has a great destiny as a Gaia, the one with incredible powers to help save the environment. She's also held down while someone carves a brand into her, bound to a chair in a walk-in freezer, and given a "choice" to join this group--one that she later finds out wasn't a choice at all since she would have been killed had she chosen to not join.

Oh, but that's not all. Her "lover" attempts to rape her as part of a training exercise. She gets kidnapped by the guy who branded her so he can finish his brand and, oh, so he can rape her again and again.

Not once in this book is Kaitlyn anything other than an excuse for bad things to happen. The only other living woman in this book is an extremely minor character, and so far she's escaped all of this. As for the other mentioned women? They're all dead and they all seemed to go through much the same as Kaitlyn.

If you like your women in refrigerators then this book might be for you. But if you think they're human beings then give this book a pass.


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  tldegray | Sep 21, 2018 |
Five years after reading the series, I still get a bad taste in my mouth. Pretty sure the only reason I finished the series was because the books were free. Not a reread. ( )
  JennyR-WY | May 27, 2018 |
What did I just read? ( )
  Ayanami_Faerudo | Mar 27, 2016 |

What I liked:
the whole idea about people close to nature & how they could draw energy from it was interesting.

the story started well and kept my interest as it progressed.

the cover is really pretty!

What I didn't like:

the Seven were short on funds...so much so that they didn't eat too well most days, yet they could travel all around the world?

I don't think causing an increase in the phytoplankton population can be that easy and even if it was, there are always consequences when humans think they know better than nature.

Kaitlyn's attraction to Micah was too insta-love for me! She accepts everything too easily-kidnapping, almost maiming, almost rape, killing of other Gaias etc.

How nobody, even wise Cato, could see how unstable Shawn really was.

I understood Micah's reasons for what he did in the greenhouse & why Shawn hatched that plan too. What I didn't get was how Kaitlyn could forgive either of them. ( )
  MiduHadi | Jul 5, 2015 |
This book for me was a very difficult one to admit my feelings about. One one hand, Terra writes very vivid descriptions, and I found myself whisked off to various exotic places,which was fun, and her character descriptions were good...but the storyline itself had much to be desired. The relationship between Micah and Kaitlyn was steamy, yes, and then when it got screwed up I wanted more elaboration on it, but then it...fizzled out.

To label this novel as eco-friendly is very deceiving. Eco consciousness was mentioned maybe five times in the book, self-sustaining, ok. Recycling, okay. But, being a Gaia and bringing balance to nature, with no real explanation as to the why, the how, the modus operandi of what she actually needed to do? I thought that there was going to be this gigantic explanation that happened, to explain away why things were going on the way they were...but there weren't.

Don't get me wrong, I like psychological thrillers as much as the next girl, and I had a hunch from the get-go that Shawn was going to be up to no good...but the whole situation there I wish was elaborated on a little more, not just I am kidnapping you and then going to rape you repeatedly in various ways and then leave you on a volcanic island, only to be defeated by a sprained ankle. I wish for so many things to have been different with this book that could have made it fantastic, and I can only hope that there are improvements on that in the next one. ( )
  AllCrazyHere | May 7, 2014 |
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"All of the elemental powers are in the palm of her hand, and it won't be enough to save her. When Kaitlyn Alder is involuntarily introduced to a life of magic, she becomes part of an organization hell-bent on saving the Earth. Just as her new-found life holds promises of purpose, romance, and friendship, the organization divides and a rogue member holds Kaitlyn hostage. Now one of the most terrifying men the human race has to offer stands between her and Earth's survival."--

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Elemental powers in the palm of her hand…and it won't be enough to save her. When Kaitlyn Alder is involuntarily introduced to a life of magic, she becomes part of an organization hell-bent on saving the Earth. Her newfound life holds promises of purpose, romance, and friendship, but the organization divides and a rogue member holds Kaitlyn hostage. Now one of the most terrifying men the human race has to offer stands between her and Earth's survival.

This novel contains sexual situations, some non-consensual, and is for mature readers only.

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