The Colorado Sequence [Kindle Edition]

Stacey Cochran (Author)

Editorial Reviews

Review

"The strength of this book is the story and level of suspense. I didn't want to put this one down simply because of the suspense and wondering who would make it out alive." --SciFiChick.com

"A unique blend of fantasy and suspense, The Colorado Sequence builds a strong female character in Amy Levine." --Julio Vazquez, author of Death at Disney

"I have sacks under my eyes because I have been up late the last few nights reading The Colorado Sequence. I finished it last night at 2:31 A.M. because I simply could not put it down. I so enjoyed this book!" --Ericka Jackson, author of A Mansion Mindset

Product Description

Physicist Dr. Amy Levine has discovered a mathematical sequence--the Colorado Sequence--that describes an underlying pattern and a guiding force within the very fabric of reality.

Now she's on the verge of an astonishing breakthrough, and the U.S. government wants to know how she has done it. How has Dr. Levine learned to accurately predict the future? And they're willing to kill her to find out.

Levine and a group of friends escape to Colorado to unravel the mystery of the sequence, but there they become snowbound. They must locate a secret treasure room, find a hidden key, and answer an ancient riddle before a devastating eruption destroys them all

...and the power of the Colorado Sequence is lost forever.

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Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 1027 KB
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B002AVVQGE
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #39,353 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

More About the Author

Stacey Cochran is the bestselling author of In Love with Eleanor Rigby, The Colorado Sequence, and CLAWS. One of the first authors to advocate for free and 99-cent pricing, Stacey made it onto numerous bestseller lists in 2009, with his collection The Kiribati Test eventually reaching #6 overall in the Kindle store in January 2010. An excerpt from his current novel-in-progress Eddie & Sunny was selected as a finalist for the James Hurst Prize for Fiction by PEN/Faulkner Finalist Ron Rash in November 2011.

Stacey was born in the Carolinas where his family traces its roots to the mid 1800s. In 1998 he was selected as a finalist for the Dell Magazines Award for undergraduate fiction writing, and he made his first professional short story sale three years later. In 2004, he was selected as a finalist in the St. Martin's Press/PWA Best First Private Eye Novel Contest, and he began teaching at North Carolina State University in 2006. He lives in Raleigh with his wife Susan, son Sam, and daughter Harper Jane. His published books include CLAWS, CLAWS 2, The Colorado Sequence, Amber Page, Born on the Bayou, In Love with Eleanor Rigby, Chromosome 4, The Loneliest, and the short story collection The Kiribati Test.

Customer Reviews

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35 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A Waste of Pennies, June 30, 2009

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CEG (New Jersey) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Colorado Sequence (Kindle Edition)

Amazon says this book has four hundred pages. I can't verify that because I downloaded it to my Kindle, but it seemed much, much longer to me.

The storyline is vague and confusing, full of broken plot threads. At times, I felt I was reading something patched together by a team of middle-school adventure-story fanboys. It begins with a scientist who has discovered a mathematical formula to predict the future and somehow ends with her restoring "balance" to Earth by traveling to another universe and re-hydrating a desert planet. Along the way, she visits the secret island hideaway of an evil organization (nod to Ian Fleming), is snowbound in a deserted Colorado hotel (nod to Stephen King), takes a ride in a mine cart (nod to Spielberg's Indiana Jones), and is menaced by evil, shadowy horsemen with glowing eyes (nod to J.R.R. Tolkien). I think I also caught references to Star Wars, The Matrix, and Alice in Wonderland, but perhaps I was merely delirious.

Cochran's writing is awkward and clumsy. He has occasional trouble maintaining the proper tense from the beginning of a sentence to its end: "And the feeling was exhilarating to her that they may be entering a deserted Rocky Mountain town that was covered in deep white snow." He tends to use the same words over and over. In one ten-line excerpt from the novel, the words "look" or "looked" are used eight times. That's a lot of looking. From his bio, I was shocked to discover the author teaches writing at a North Carolina university.

In short, this book is desperately seeking an editor. As it was self-published, I'm sure no professional editor came anywhere near it. Although this was a Kindle download and cost me only eighty cents, I was angered to think I could have saved the change and downloaded one of the classics absolutely free. In the future I will be wary of self-published "bargains."

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great idea, Not so great presentation., July 9, 2009

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This review is from: The Colorado Sequence (Kindle Edition)

The idea is great, almost like something Michael Crichton would imagine. But the book is sorely needing an editor. Often through the book, Stacey repeats lines that he stated just a sentence or two before almost as if he thinks we weren't smart enough to get it the first time. By the time it had happened the fourth time I was about ready to put the book down and forget it. But, I did find myself wondering how the story would end, so I read through. He does get his tenses mixed and often switches between first and last names of the characters (again, an editor would catch this) but the story is enjoyable. I definitely think it's worth a read especially at this price and I think that Mr. Cochran should keep it up. His ideas are creative and definitely worth being told.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good Read -- Not great, June 30, 2009

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Tip10 (St Louis, Mo USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Colorado Sequence (Kindle Edition)

Cochran spins a good solid story, the story line was great -- suspenseful with enough twists and turns to keep the reader interested and involved -- but it suffered a bit in the presentation. Basically this was a 4 1/2 star story hurt by a quirky presentation.

The author's propensity to constantly switch between first and last names was somewhat irritating -- for example, in the span of a couple of paragraphs he'd refer to them as Amy and Sara, Amy and McKenzie, Levine and McKenzie and finally Levine and Sara -- leaving the reader to constantly jump to follow the characters -- as a result it took away from ever really connecting with the characters. He also showed similar behavior with measurements -- switching between metric and imperial although not to as great an extent.

I read this on my Kindle and found it fairly well formatted with the only noticeable drawback being an occasional extra page between chapters.

I'll likely read Cochran again -- he tells a good story -- and I'm hoping his presentation will come up to the level of his stories.