MindWar (Paperback)

by Darrell Bain (Author)

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Product Description
When terrorists try to poison undergraduate schools with a nerve agent, the scheme backfires. Instead of causing death, the chemical stimulates the mirror neurons in the students' brains, causing them to multiply and become hyperactive. This, in turn, leads to unusual talents. As the children grow, their teachers and other institutions become very interested in the odd perceptive ability they begin displaying. Government, industry, military, drug cartels, businesses and the underworld all want to use them for their own purposes. Some of the young men and women have different ideas. They will fight to keep their freedom; especially after a few of them begin to develop another odd talent, one that may change the world.

Product Details

• Paperback: 232 pages
• Publisher: Double Dragon Publishing (August 17, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1554044774
• ISBN-13: 978-1554044771
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,983,949 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars disappointment, October 25, 2007

By	Mr. Donald J. Kaufman Sr. "deejay" (St. Louis) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I was expecting more from this book. The author's overuse of slang concocted
to look like text messaging really sounded more like kid-speak. Yes, the characters were teens, but they were supposed to be gaining maturity from their telepathy, not losing it. I finished the book, but I'm not likely to buy another of Bain's books.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A simple minded mother, November 8, 2007

By	Jorge Frid (Mexico City) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The book's story is good and you'll think about it afterwards. The problem is that you have a simple mother as one of the main characters. How could be that a mother encourage her 13 years old daughter to have sex? When you read this among other things that parents wouldn't allow their children do the book start swooping so fast you can't even catch it.

1.0 out of 5 stars An idea of questionable taste rendered clumsily... avoid this one., November 1, 2008

By	Anonymous Bosch "Anonymous Bosch" (Midwest, USA) - See all my reviews

I soldiered through this book - forced myself to finish it. The editing is rough, but I knew Bain's following first met and embraced him in the (very new) world of web publishing, and I'm all right with wading through a few typos and misused words to get to a good story. The problem is, there's only the most rudimentary of stories to be had here. Painfully wooden characters limp along on the page, never even threatening to come to life. His zeal is commendable (dozens of his books - with unbelievably bad cover art - are available on Amazon), but the man barely writes at a sixth grade level. But wait: there's more!

The central premise of the book is that psychic 13-year-olds are as mature as non-psychic 18-year-olds... well, because they're PSYCHIC. No more complex argument is made - he simply repeats the premise, again and again. It's so... because it's so! This would be easier to palette if his 13-year-old girls (they're in their underwear for much of the book) behaved more maturely. Besides the physical responses, birth control methods, and seductions the girls engage in, there's not much to set them apart from real 13-year-old girls. As I'm sure you're starting to gather, the effect is unsettling. A hop and a skip from kiddy porn.

The writing itself is on par with the worst I have ever read. I can only guess that Bain's success online is due to the fetishist nature of his series "The Sex Gates", which showcases sex scenes between people who have magically/pseudo-scientifically switched genders.

Don't let the juvenile quality of the writing confuse you... this is not for children. I was pretty alarmed when a friend suggested that preteens/teens might be the target audience. If his intentions are innocent, the ineptness of his delivery renders the fact irrelevant.