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First tagged "mythology" by M. C. Pearson
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Product Description
Unwittingly selected to join an army of fairies, who quarrel for a Light of a One, a teenaged lady learns about devout crusade as she attends a troops academy with fantastical beings.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #54669 in eBooks
- Published on: 2011-12-05
- Released on: 2011-12-05
- Format: Kindle eBook
- Number of items: 1
Editorial Reviews
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"Imagination runs furious in F.A.I.R.I.E.S. Pearson brings immature readers by a looking potion and into a universe ripping with adventure, heroism, and fascinating creatures. Readers will be desirous to be loyal to a One and left with expectation of some-more to come."
--Jill Williamson, award-winning author of By Darkness Hid, and other books
From a Back Cover
Here lies a many changed treasure,
Awaiting one Chosen to deliver.
Seek out a red cousins in a East,
For on this your fervour mustn't feast.
The resources of a class now in your hands,
Do with it as a Light demands.
Give them your present to unite,
For it is a dark we all contingency fight.
About a Author
M. C. Pearson graduated from San Jose State University with a B. A. in art, served as a multi-media illustrator in a United States Army, earning a arrange of sergeant, and spent 4 years as a residence primogenitor for at-risk youth. Now married over 20 years, she homeschools her dual children, volunteers with her church girl group, and runs a book examination blog fondness (FIRST Wild Card Tours) while essay and drawing. F.A.I.R.I.E.S.: Baptism by Fire is her initial novel.
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3 of 3 people found a following examination helpful.
Slow start though splendidly creative
By R. Sperling
Geared essentially for children and pre-teens, F.A.I.R.E.S. (Fantastical, Aerial, International, Reasonably Inconspicuous, Emancipation Squads) is a story of Mellie (12 going on 13) and her tour of being selected and selecting to offer a One.
While we adore anticipation and examination a satisfactory volume of children's and immature adult fiction, we had a formidable time removing into this book. In sequence to uncover a expansion of her impression Mellie, a author starts with a self-centered, whiny immature girl. Maybe Pearson did a bit too consummate a pursuit in display Mellie's unflattering side, since we usually couldn't find anything about Mellie's impression to bond with until good into a story. Mellie's impression growth reminded me a bit of both Edmund and Eustace from C.S. Lewis' Narnia, though when Mellie was introduced there were no other (more noble) characters to assistance me stay connected to a story.
Still, I'm blissful that we kept reading. About a entertain of a approach into a book Mellie's impression started to take on a some-more dull celebrity and we enjoyed a growth of a relations within her patrol of fantastical being friends. Though we contingency acknowledge that it seemed peculiar how Mellie went from being a egotistic twelve year aged to behaving like a mature sixteen or seventeen year aged in a camber of 4 months, a changes in Mellie changed a story along in a approach that helped me bond to a lessons she was learning.
Despite a fact that it took some time for me to feel concerned in a storyline, Mimi's imagination knows no bounds. As we examination we became enthralled in a universe of bizarre and fascinating creatures exploring a riddles of dragons and a illustration of a One.
Once we staid in to a story we enjoyed it and we demeanour brazen to saying some-more from Mimi Pearson and her tales of a realm. Her grand imagination will no doubt continue to hint a seductiveness of her aim assembly as she weaves tales of light, dark and a One who is above it all.
Thanks to a author for promulgation me a digital duplicate of a book in sell for my honest opinion.
1 of 1 people found a following examination helpful.
Fun and Imaginative Adventure
By Nora A. Stlaurent
Have we seen a film Tooth Fairy or The S.A.N.T.A. Clause? Read a book Hinds Feet in High Places? F.A.I.R.I.E.S. reminded me of tools of these cinema and book. I'm grateful to have perceived a examination duplicate of such an talented book. This author combines anticipation with existence like a dual cinema we mentioned and is an story like a book Hinds Feet in High Places. Mellie is a usually tellurian in a story. She is surrounded with visionary characters like Lord of a Rings has with fairies, elves, gnomes, gremlins, dragons, dwarfs usually to name a few and she's perplexing to make clarity of this new universe she has usually entered, like Lucy in C.S. Lewis's book Narnia.
M.C. Pearsons is not usually a author of this girl anticipation though she is a illustrator as well. Her cinema are sparse via a book. They illustrate for a reader her talented characters
Mellie is a discontented tellurian who wishes to shun a home life she has with her awful sisters. "Just once she wanted to do something that would make her sisters see that she wasn't stupid, awkward, ugly, and a small baby." She wanted to live in a family where she was desired and accepted. Maybe she could exile and find a improved place to live.
Suddenly Mellis finds herself low into a timberland uncertain of where to go next, afterwards she runs into a strangest sight, a walking hang that talks.
Is this a dream she wonders? Then unexpected a walking hang ushers her into a intricacy of a F.A.I.R.I.E.S. She doesn't know what to think. Everything was utterly magical. Just like in a Santa Clause and Tooth Fairy cinema she sees everybody operative together as a group for a common goal, she'll learn later.
The walking hang finally introduces himself to her, his name is Regnans. He says, Welcome to a F.A.I.R.I.E.S. it stands for
F - Fantastical
A - Aerial
I - International
R- Reasonably
I- Inconspicious
E- Emancepation
S - Squads
They have supposed her into their organization. Regnans goes on to tell she has been "chosen" by a One. He tells her, "You done a choice to run divided from a miserable life and asked to be set free?..... Right? You asked - we answered - we are accepted."
Mellie is astounded and says, "But we don't trust in fairies...."
"Follow-Me. I'll enroll we for training. We are during war." Move quickly.
She replies, "I'm not during quarrel with anyone"
Regnan says, "You are during war. The darone wants to stamp out a light."
This is where a story reminded me of a Tooth Fairy and how he goes into training. He learns all he can and afterwards creates a goal his own.
Mellie embarks on a enchanting tour as "chosen" by a One to be lerned as a infantryman of a light to quarrel a shade whose set on fighting humans.
She also is in hunt of a One who truly loves and accepts her for who she is and was combined to be.
I enjoyed this tour into a F.A.I.R.I.E.S. training and beyond!! It was fun, interesting and nonetheless there was a abyss to this story we enjoyed. we also like a startling twists and turns Mellie takes in her hunt to find a One and her goal in life.
Are we looking for a story that will drive we into a enchanting land and assistance we not consider about a worries of this world; during a same time move comfort and fun to your soul? Then hunt no some-more F.A.I.R.I.E.S. is a book for we and a immature people in your life. It will hint good examination for we and any book clubs that would like to examination it.
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1 of 1 people found a following examination helpful.
Imaginative!
By Anne Payne
Several times we have attempted to examination a book in a Fantasy/Speculative Fiction genre and can't do it. My mind usually doesn't conjure adult what a characters and creatures demeanour like. For that reason alone we was blissful that a illustrations in a book were there and they are "fantastical" in and of themselves! You get dual treasures in one: The eternal imagination of a author and her implausible illustrations. It's amazing! And to wobble a devout thread in a approach she did. AWE.SOME.
This is really a book that immature and aged suppositional novella fans will enjoy.
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