Kinesis [Kindle Edition]

Ethan Spier (Author)

Book Description

The #1 bestselling science fiction thriller!

When two men break into Leonard Samson’s house, beat him unconscious and murder his six-year-old son, the police arrive to a gruesome scene. But they are shocked to find the mutilated bodies of the two intruders in the front room of Leonard’s home, while he waits in the kitchen with the surviving members of his family.

Clarissa Chapman is a DCI of Psychokinetic Investigations, a new area of police work, instigated after the first genuine case of psychokinesis was discovered, some fifteen years earlier. The Samson case is brought to her attention due to the strange way in which the two intruders were killed. She suspects Leonard Samson is a Kinetic.

All Kinetics are blessed with a gift to move objects with only the power of their mind. But it is also a horrific curse. Within a few years of discovering their ability, they all develop violent insanity and, for this reason, are locked away in specially designed prisons for the benefit of public safety.

After discovering that the authorities suspect him of being a Kinetic, Leonard Samson runs; unaware that the police are not the only ones pursuing him.

As the days pass by, Clarissa becomes increasingly aware that certain aspects of the Samson case just do not add up...


NOTE: THIS IS NOW A RE-EDITED VERSION, CORRECTING SOME PROOF READING ERRORS FROM THE PREVIOUS EDITION.

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Product Details

• File Size: 852 KB
• Print Length: 340 pages
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B006ZDPVM8
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• X-Ray: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,297 Free in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Free in Kindle Store)
  • #20 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Literature & Fiction > Genre Fiction > Science Fiction > Adventure

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

25 of 26 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Great story, needs a little proofreading February 4, 2012

By Rachel Sincere

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I read a lot. I am pretty picky about the storylines and the pace of the books I read. This book was really very good. The story sucked me in from the first couple of pages and it never lost me. I read it in a few days. "Kinesis" was much more than I expected for a free book. I imagine it can go very far.

I almost gave "Kinesis" four stars, just for the proofreading. It almost drove me nuts. Please, if you could just give an eighth grade teacher a copy and a red pen and let him/her go at it, it would be such an improvement! The most glaring error was the use of plural possessive instead of plural in the word "Kinetics," another one was writing the word "nevertheless" out as three words. I see so much potential in this book that it would be a shame to let it go to waste with sloppy proofreading.

To anyone thinking of buying this book, I would encourage you to go ahead. It is fast-paced, the characters are interesting, the story will grab you and not let you go until you are finished!

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Fast paced, riveting plot with holes June 27, 2012

By J. Golton

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I really liked the basic plot concept, the gripping characters, and the fast paced drama. However, the response of police, special police, and private investigators seemed implausibly weak to me, especially during the second half of the book. Given how I saw the U.S. react to Bin Laden and everyone associated with him after 9/11, the response in this book seemed anemic in comparison, despite what seemed to be a threat of potentially larger magnitude. The book reads like a really wonderful second or third draft that wasn't quite yet finished. Refinement from professional editing and more extensive consulting with actual police and military personnel (for heightened realism) could have turned this into a really great book.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars So Much Suspense! February 6, 2012

By Luv2CUSmile

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I really loved this book and went into it with a preconceived notion I would find it boring. It was anything but. The thing that really makes this a true thriller and nonstop suspense is how real this could be. For anyone who has seen the uncomfortable "fear" that people get from the "unknown" or "misunderstood", this will truly grab you in and you will not want to stop reading until the book is done. The characters were introduced naturally and have much depth. I hope to see other books by this author very soon. I think he has true talent. - A word on "errors"- they really were not so bad that it interrupted the reading. BTW, I could truly see this book being made into a movie with Harrison Ford or Liam Neeson as the main character. While reading I also had thoughts of the movie Phenomenon with John Travolta and Kyra Sedgwick... If you have seen that movie you will be familiar with the accusations thrown out and the way the FBI treated John Travolta when they wanted to "study" him. Great book- Write some more!

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic New Thriller! January 28, 2012

By Brandon Awbrey

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An exciting and believable supernatural thriller. The premise is simple - how would society react if we discover a group of people with supernatural abilities. And I don't think Mr. Spier's vision if far off the mark. A great read, I hope he continues his stories in this universe.

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars Lacks complexity and sophistication October 21, 2012

By E. Hung

Format:Paperback

Checked this book out of the amazon kindle lending library based on the strength of its ratings but was sorely disappointed in the quality of the novel. I wonder if I would have bothered finishing it, if I had not been so ill-equipped on my recent cross country flight. Regretfully, I had forgotten to pack headphones and not bothered with preparing alternate reading material.

A man, who may be harboring a secret ability, is on the run from both a clean cut police investigator and a morally corrupt bounty hunter. Another man, whose ability is not secret, works to escape confinement in order to take revenge on the investigator who captured him. I guessed early on how the plot might resolve and kept reading just to see if i was right.

To be fair, a predictable plot alone doesn't make for bad entertainment. But, the writing style used to describe things--people, settings, internal thoughts, plot development etc.--was so rudimentary and too the point, I felt like I was reading a textbook, or downloading the contents of a lecture straight into my head. There is no rhythm, no joy, in the author's phrasing and sentence construction. Barely any wit or humor exhibited by the characters in the book.

The scifi element in this book also lacks development and complexity. The author does provides a fair amount of historical exposition, which I admittedly found entertaining, and perhaps two "oh, cool" moments; but in the end, his explanation of how things work or might work seemed only half-fetched--just enough to get the plot rolling, and then repeated ad naseum until the end.

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Just read the author's bio and the book's publishing credentials, and I feel kinda conflicted about my review.... To an aspiring writer after having read his first novel, I would say, ok, not bad. You did better than I could have done. But, this book's 4.5-star overall rating set my expectations way too high, and I'm posting this review and rating so that other potential readers should know to expect more of a 3-star reading experience. Mostly, I'm bitter at having used up my one free book a month from the kindle lending library on this book.

If I had gotten to that level of detail prior to borrowing the book from the lending library, maybe my expectations wouldn't have been so high. But I'm also not sure that information was readily available while browsing on my kindle.

This is my first read of an independently published book, and I wonder, do I need to recalibrate my expectations for books like this? Is a 4.5 for a book published by Del Rey or Tor the same as a 4.5 for a book published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform? Should it be? Read more ›

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Right up there in the suspenseful category February 25, 2013

By Domino

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Kenesis is the ability to move objects with the mind. But people who develop this talent gradually become more and more violent and to protect society they are locked up for life. The descriptions of these lock ups were enough to scare me.
The book kind of jumps around. First there is Leonard Samson, his wife and children. They are having a peaceful evening at home when two men break in, kill their six year old son, beat Leonard, and, well you get that picture. The men are found literally torn to pieces at the crime scene. Leonard is suspected of being the person who did it with kenesis and is about to be locked away for life.
Then the book skips to another time and place. It is about a little boy show discovers he has a talent, a talent he keeps secret even from his brother.
The third story is that of Clarissa Chapman, single mother, who has been chosen to run the PKI or Psychokinetic Investigation Team. She has helped put away others with kenesis abilities and she is after Leonard now, but a man she helped put away is determined to get even with her.
I could not put this book down, staying up hours after my bedtime.
For me, the scariest part of this book is that our government would have the ability to pass laws like this and innocent people would suffer without reprieve. A very memorable book.

More About the Author

Ethan Spier was born in the middle of England in 1980. He grew up listening to music by The Beatles and reading books by Roald Dahl. While always having an interest in writing stories, it wasn't until he was twelve and started reading books by Stephen King that he began writing short horror and science fiction stories.

Ethan continued to intermittently write short stories through his teenage years, but then his other passion, music, took over. After playing guitar in a number of bands during his early twenties, Ethan decided to try his hand at writing once again.

At the age of 28, he began a science fiction novel about a mysterious object which falls from space and then inexplicably prevents Earth from being able to support life. After 20,000 words, Ethan decided it was pretty much rubbish and abandoned it.

When he was 30, inspiration struck Ethan again, but this time he was determined to make his new idea work. The resulting novel was Kinesis which was published on Amazon Kindle in January, 2012. Kinesis has been downloaded over 50,000 times around the world.

Ethan released his second novel, Kaleidoscope, on 19th December 2012 and is currently working on a follow up to Kinesis.

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