Strange in Skin [Kindle Edition]

Sara V. Zook (Author)

Book Description

From the moment Anna James meets the strange prisoner Emry Logan, she becomes instantly obsessed and will stop at nothing to try to get another interaction with him. But going against her family and church aren’t without consequence. She is deemed a traitor as she quickly realizes that there’s more to Emry’s past than just murder. He has a special ability that is far from human that he only shares with her. Feeling this magical connection, Anna has to free her beautiful inmate so that they can be together finally, but someone else knows about Emry’s secret and wants Anna to stop digging for answers as she finds herself in the midst of a modern day witch hunt. The life of an innocent pastor’s kid suddenly is turned upside down in a war between good and evil as Anna begins to wonder which people in her life are on the side of good, and is she one of them.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Sara began writing as a child and continued with short stories and poetry throughout high school and college. She graduated with a degree in creative writing, and after a short hiatus of having her children, picked up the pen again and produced Strange in Skin, Book One of the Strange in Skin Trilogy. She was born and raised in rural Pennsylvania where she resides still with her husband and three small children.

Product Details

• File Size: 585 KB
• Print Length: 364 pages
• Publisher: Imagine Press (July 24, 2012)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B008ONH78S
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• X-Ray: Not Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #243,618 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Fantasizing About a Mystery August 1, 2012

By Carrie J. Bylina

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"Strange in Skin" is a well-written story, edited to keep out most grammatical/production hiccups, and should appeal to younger audiences, wanting to escape the day-to-day and fantasize about "first" or "true" love along with youthful rebellion. Though the heroine, Anna, acts more like a lovesick puppy of sixteen in the beginning than a dowdy 22-year-old ready to bloom, the author provides a story line that gives her the opportunity to grow. That's the strong upside.

I don't read or review fantasy often, but dipped my fingers into this book because of the mystery aspect. It's almost a shame the fantasy element is there at all. Fantasy really doesn't show up until 40% through the book, and isn't really that central to the overall themes of good over evil and love conquers all. This would have made a solid coming-of-age mystery without the fantasy. Plenty of human evil needs to be overcome (deceit, prejudice, controlling and bad people, etc.). The fantasy element is the stuff of love struck teenagers but has little bearing on solving anything in this story. The fantasy, in my opinion, just messes up the message with should do in reality of doing what's right or following your heart.

Maybe books two and three will be more revealing, but each book needs to stand on its own merit. And in this one, Anna does a lot of moaning, crying, wailing, kvetching, internalizing, and falling in love with some "blue eyes" as she grows. She never attempts to investigate Emry's crime to help him. And some of her other investigative adventures harkens back to Nancy Drew with hot flashes. Two plot holes stopped me cold; however, I read on. To me, this is a 3, average, and that's not bad. But I suspect for the target audience, it's probably a middle-grade 4.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars good idea but needs a little something August 20, 2012

By avdvinc

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I love to read books by local people. This book opens great and I was like wow this is going to be good. Well first of all Anna is suppose to be in her mid to early twenty's, but acts like she's twelve. She is so annoying that I almost didn't finish the book. I really did think that the plot was good. The characters need a little tweaking. I'm glad I got this book for cheep.

4.0 out of 5 stars Kept my interest January 27, 2013

By Faith Wiegman

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Read this book on a recommendation from a friend of the author. Very pleasantly surprised. I had no idea what it was about, so I was ready for anything. It really kept my attention and I had to keep reading it to see how it would turn out. I have already downloaded the next book.