Sensitive [Paperback]

Nina Wright (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 8, 2007

"Sensitive", the sequel to "Homefree", follows sixteen-year-old Easter Hutton through her first weeks at the mysterious Fairless Grove Academy. The academy is the headquarters of Homefree, an agency dedicated to helping teens with paranormal abilities learn how to use their gifts. Easter discovers that in addition to her unusual talents for time travel, astral projection, and invisibility, she is a Sensitive - someone who can communicate with spirits. Using her paranormal skills, Easter is called upon to settle a two-hundred-year-old misunderstanding while also dealing with her best friend's mental breakdown, her own forbidden passions, and the whereabouts of her missing mother.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

An actor turned playwright and novelist, Nina Lanai Wright is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America, the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, and Florida Writers Association. Her comedy Cherchez Dave Robicheaux has had four productions to date, including an Equity premiere at Ann Arbor's Performance Network. It was also produced at Sonoma County Repertory Theatre, where it won the SCRipts International New Play Competition, and by Cleveland's Feminist Troupe, Red Hen Productions. Most recently, the playwright directed her own script at a theatre in Toledo, Ohio.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 12 and up
  
• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Flux; 1st. Ed edition (October 8, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0738711705
• ISBN-13: 978-0738711706
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 6.6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,231,590 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

An actor turned playwright and novelist, Nina Wright is author of five books in the humorous Whiskey Mattimoe mystery series. She has also published two paranormal urban fantasies, HOMEFREE and SENSITIVE. All her books are for sale on Amazon; she is pleased to partner with Ampichellis Epublishers in making her books available at the Kindle store.

News for Whiskey Mattimoe fans: The 6th book in the series, WHISKEY AND SODA, will be available in 2012. Check back soon for more details.

News for HOMEFREE fans: SENSITIVE will soon be published as an ebook. Nina is working on the third book in the series for release in 2012.

More about Nina Wright . . .

With an undergraduate degree in theater and two master's degrees (in English literature and applied linguistics), Nina has taught creative writing, playwriting, speech, drama, English literature, and English as a Second Language to adults and teens.

Born in northwest Ohio, Nina learned from Lake Erie and her patient father how to swim, ice skate, sail, and fish. Her father also encouraged her to laugh and tell stories. Today Nina's favorite place is a beach almost anywhere. She likes to bike and hike, too. Nina's affection for coastal Michigan, central West Virginia, and magical St. Augustine, Florida, is evident in the settings of her novels.

Because she was an actor and playwright before she wrote fiction, Nina learned her craft by studying what works on the stage: revealing truth through dialogue and action. A playwright must instantly draw the audience into the world of the drama and hold them there until the house lights come up at the end.

Nina continues to write plays as well as fiction. Her latest full-length dramedy, ON MY BOYFRIENDS' BICYCLES, is ideally suited to small theatres with minimal production capabilities. Interested producers and directors may contact her through her website.

A storyteller committed to both page and stage, Nina enjoys teaching others to explore their passions and find their voices; she leads customized workshops for writers of all ages. Nina regularly posts on Facebook and Twitter as well as her blogs. She welcomes input from readers.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Scarier than ghosts, December 6, 2007

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M. K. Buhler (St. Petersburg, Florida) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sensitive (Paperback)

The Sensitives have extra-sensory powers, distracting enough to create a nuisance. But behind the compelling front cover illustration is a mystery that can only be peeled back layer by layer. Sensitive Easter Hutton can rely on her mother to interfere long-distance with her school, job, friends Andrew and Cal. Easter condemns Nikki as a bad mom, alcoholic, drug abuser, runaway wife spiraling down into an oblivion she deserves, in the belief she'll never learn her lesson. In legendary "ghostville" St. Augustine, Florida, Easter finds a compassionate and similarly Sensitive grandmother who can reveal to her what her mom never could. A rite-of-passage tale of an unusual heroine and a return coup de grace by HOMEFREE author, Nina Wright.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Worthy (and Spooky) Sequel to Homefree, September 18, 2007

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Molly McHugh Baylord (Scottsdale, AZ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sensitive (Paperback)

If you can ever judge a book by its cover, you definitely can with SENSITIVE. Check out the haunting image of a sad girl peering, speechless, through a misty window. Spirits, vibrations, dark places, deep water--they're all elements of this eerie sequel to Nina Wright's HOMEFREE. I'm willing to bet that no one will be able to put it down. Get reacquainted with some of the characters you met in the first book, and then settle in for a reading experience that will raise the hair on the back of your neck! Easter and friends are haunted by the spirit of a girl who died 200 years ago. As if that's not bad enough, Andrew seems to be losing his mind, and Easter's mother is just plain lost. I recommend this book!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sensational, December 7, 2007

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Theodora Aggeles "author of: Answering the Ca... (Florida) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sensitive (Paperback)

Sensitive's entrancing cover offers readers a hint of the mysyterious and magical journey they will embark upon with Easter and the Sensitives at Fairless Grove Academy. After reading this book, I cannot visit St. Augustine without rounding a corner expecting to see Easter, Cal, and Andrew or maybe stumbling upon the French restaurant, Astral.

Wright's characters shimmer on the pages in brilliantly written scenes like those between the "two cooks" and "Easter encountering Placida." With the signature witty and fine-edged dialogue Wright is known for, she creates a subculture readers will find enchanting. Putting the book down is not an option once readers enter Easter's world.

Both teens and adults will find Sensitive a fascinating read where the extraordinary subject of people teleporting and astral projecting shares the stage with everyday concerns of fitting-in, personal growth, and self-acceptance.

I for one, hope that Wright continues to pen books on Easter's journey to explore and master her "gifts." No doubt the book would easily make the transition to a screenplay for Hollywood, and would have quite a following.