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Hunted

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When a young firl (Karen) gets beaten up into a coma, she enters a world she never knew could exist. There, Karen becomes an arl; a creature visiting from another place with the appearence of an animal but the intelligence of a human. Hunted is original like nothing I've ever read before. The ending has quite a twist.

I picked this book up because of its great cover (I have a different edition) and the story on the back sounded good.
And it is.
"Hunted" lives off it's highly original storyline. N.M. Browne creates a dark and mysterious setting for the unusual sight of Karen, a girls soul trapped in a fox as she lies in a coma, dying.
Some passages following the parallel hospital-story are deeply sad, especially when her ex boyfriends visits her a last time or her grandma watches her faraway sleep. And many scenes in the actual adventure are filled with excitement but also despair, for Karens strength is growing weaker - in reality and her adventure.
This book is very emotional and to be recommended for readers about 14 years old.

The book Hunted is about a young girl (Karen) that sets out on the adventure of a lifetime while her body lies in a hospital bed. I found that Hunted tugged at all the emotions that could be felt. As I flew through the book I could feel just as she felt, so much that I would forget that I was reading it and just feel that I was in it. I felt it so much that I was there with her feeling the pain, agony, and utter instinct to survive. It was so good that I didn't want to put it down, but mysterious enough to always keep you wondering what the next page would bring. I feel that this is a good book for people who consider themselves one with nature.

if you like strange things with a twist of love this might be a book for you.

This is the worst book I ever watsed my money on. I read the back of the book, the story seemed original and fresh. I read the first chapter, compelling and action filled and made you wonder what happened next. But then right after the second chapter it just spirals down hill like a plane caught in a death spiral until it crashes and burns. Karen turns into a fox, waking up in this new world that seems to be the medeival era to us. But she seems more like a robot, she does things as a fox, never thinks and hangs around a strange man. I found the plot incredibly slow, borring and lame. In the end she dies, leaping infront of a sword to save the man she loves( a man and a fox?. It could have been a LOT more original and fresh then just junk stringed togather. The writing style is slow, the action is as instense as watching snails,and the charcters are weak and plastic. Do not waste good money9or effort) on purchasing this book.

this book was one of the worst books that I have ever read. I don't even know where to begin. First of all, it never seemed to be edited. There were several gramitcal errors within the text. But also, the characterizations were very poor. Mowl had no personality, and seemed like a great shambling child. His emotions made very little sense, and his actions made even less sense. No one is going to fall in love with a fox, no matter how extraordinary that fox might be. His reasons for befriending her made no sense either. Alright, he's fascinated by magical things and he's never seen an arl before, but there's no complex emotions involved. IT's like the writer knew that they had to end up together, so she put them together. Mowl wasn't even the slightest bit scared or awed by the fox, as he would be if he were more human. THink about it. If you met a fairy today, would you just calmly befriend it and fall in love with it, or would you be a little bit scared?
THe whole subplot with Tina and Billy was ludicrous. Tina goes and almost kills this poor girl, but then suddenly Grace, the girl's grandmother, is expected to forgive her, because TIna isn't all bad and she's suffering in side and Billy loves her. That part made no sense to me, and I don't understand how the author could try to justify a crime where a group of girls batter a girl into a coma and then just leave her. the given reason for the crime was also stupid. Boyfriend stealing. Who almost kills another person because they stole your boyfriend? Honestly!
Another thing, the quality of the writing was very poor. THe author spelled out the emotions of every character, when it's common knowlege to use Show don't Tell when in comes to writing. There were also several scenes that did not need to be there, like all the scenes where Karen Fox is hungry. She's starving. THere's a hole in her belly and she just wants to eat. OK, we get the point, and the author really didn't need to show all that. This book was in need of serious editing and revising. it reads like a draft. None of the characters were complicated or even the slightest bit human, and none of their actions made sense. This book was horrible. It was one of the worst fantasy books I have ever read, and I love fantasy.