Owlet: Society of Feathers #1 [Kindle Edition]

Emma Michaels (Author)

Book Description

Somewhere between falling and flying… there is a girl.

Iris has a secret. She lost her memory eight years ago and never told a living soul. After an asthma attack one night she finds out that her dreams of a strange house on a snowy island may be a memory resurfacing but the more she learns about the past the more she realizes the life she has been living is a lie. As the façade her father has built starts to crumble around her she will have to decide which means more to her; the truth or her life.

Product Details

• File Size: 303 KB
• Print Length: 138 pages
• Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
• Publisher: Tribute Books (October 13, 2012)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B0090MXTVG
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• X-Ray: Not Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #456,103 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars OWLET IS AN EPIC READ October 12, 2012

By Tee

Format:Kindle Edition

I would like to give a HUGE Thank You to Tribute books for allowing to read and review Owlet and be a part of the tour. I have to say that this book had me gripped from the very first page. Lord can you imagine losing your memory. You can't remember your friends your family nothing your brain is just a blank canvas. That has got to be the most frightening thing ever for someone to experience. Well welcome to Iris's world. She has lost her memories and when she asks her father about things he is evasive not telling her a thing. She has so many questions and no answers.

Iris lives in a fantasy land because she has these dreams and she wishes she could go there to this place she dreams about and to meet the boy she dreams about. One day her wishes comes true because she has an asthma attack and her caretaker brings her to an island at her fathers request. This is where all the secrets and lies will be revealed because Iris soon finds out that the flash backs or dreams she has had are true things that have happened to her. Oh and the boy, yes he is not imaginary but real and has secrets of his own.

Once on the island Iris starts to uncover the truth and find out what her family has been hiding from her. What will she do when she finds out the truth? What will the boy she dreams about do? Come along for the greatest ride. I loved how Emma told this story unfolding with different things at different times and never once slowing down. I need the second book ASAP!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful Start for a New Series! October 11, 2012

By Mary Bookhounds VINE™ VOICE

Format:Kindle Edition

MY THOUGHTS
LOVED IT

Iris has had asthma ever since she can remember. She doesn't remember much about her early childhood except snippets of a poetic fairy tale and her magical island of Never Never. She doesn't remember her mother, only her father and Diana, her caretaker and somewhat aunt are her only friends and even then her father is always gone. A boy named Falcon always seems to drift somewhere in the back of her mind and she dreams of a snow covered island, which she isn't sure is her magical island or not.

When Diana takes her to the island at her father's request, Iris is overjoyed that what little she does remember now seems to be true and she slowly gathers those memories together to piece together her mother and her own past. Falcon turns out to be a real boy with secrets of his own and her family is now only starting to open up about her true identity. Iris is unsure and almost dies after falling in the water which makes the family reveal her true purpose and history. I thought at first that this might be a shapeshifter story, but it reminded me a bit more of Native American folklore and the Skin Walkers.

This first installment is full of setting the scene and world building and it is not until the end that Iris really comes to life as she remembers more and more and starts to become more independent. I can't wait for the next one to see how much more in control Iris will become and how she can work around what she truly is. Sorry, I am not giving up to much of the plot points since the revelation of her character is something you should read for yourself.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars A Beautiful Story October 19, 2012

By Michael_Loring

Format:Kindle Edition

Owlet by Emma Michaels is a beautifully written piece of work that draws you in from the first page on. It was smart, emotionally driven with well-developed characters, and a completely original storyline matched by none.

Owlet begins as Iris, a young girl who has mysteriously lost her memories years prior to the story and has told no one, dreams of an island that she flies to. She calls it her Never-Never (derived from Peter Pan's Neverland) and wishes to be there all the time. After an asthma attack her father discovers this dream and takes Iris to the island of her dreams, and once she's there she learns more about her father and herself than she could have hoped for.

Owlet is a poetic tale of a young asthmatic girl who desires for more out of life, but is constantly hindered by her asthma that keeps her from going far. Once she arrives to the island of her dreams - her Never-Never - she learns secrets her father and her best friend had kept from her her whole life, and also of a boy who is from her past and asks for her to never leave again. With poems, legends, and information about birds and their various types; Owlet proves to be an intricate, smart, beautiful story written by an author with serious talent and an ending that will leave you in utter suspense.

More About the Author

Emma Michaels is a multi-talented bookish girl. Not only is she the designer of beautiful covers, but she has many other accomplishments under her belt. She started book blogging in 2009 and was first published in 2010. She started The Writer's Voice blog in 2011 as a way to help readers get to know authors on another level.

She moved to Washington at seventeen to be with the man that she loves, who asked her what she secretly wanted to be when she grew up. Naturally, she told him that she wanted to be an author, but at the time she thought "it was a pipe dream." He encouraged her to pursue her dreams and taught her that "sometimes reaching for the impossible can make a world of difference in your life." Now she is published and reaching well beyond what most people can imagine.