Cayden Rivers wants nothing more than to be normal, but we don’t always get what we want. For years he has been hiding a secret, afraid of being labeled a “freak”. Every day he goes to school, plays football, spends time with his girlfriend, and helps carry his drunken adopted father to bed. Nobody knows the truth about his unnatural speed and strength, including his life-long friend Camilla. Suddenly, four strangers enter Cayden’s life, and not only do they know his secret, they also have one of their own. With their help, Cayden discovers there is more to his power, something much more dangerous. Something other people will kill to possess.
Camilla wishes her parents were around more. She gets lonely sleeping in her big empty house night after night. Sure, she has all the money she could ever need, but the only person who is there for her is Cayden. He has his own family and a girlfriend who takes up most of his time, so Camilla knows he won’t be there for her forever, and recently he’s been acting really strange. Will Cayden be able to keep his secret and his friendship with Camilla, or will his new found power destroy everything, including his own life? Switching between Cayden and Camilla's point of view, Twisted will leave you aching for more.
Review:
Twisted by KayCee R is the story of a teenage boy who lives with the knowledge that he's a freak. He has the ability to turn rocks to dust with his bare hands and he can run faster than the human eye can perceive. Cayden Rivers tries to lead as much of a normal life as anyone with super powers can. Sure he uses his abilities to his advantage sometimes, but he tries to remain as careful as he can because spending a lifetime being poked and prodded in a lab is not his idea of fun.
Cayden's abilities allow him to excel at football, but the table turn on him when he is tackled by someone who's speed and strength match his. But that's not where the similarities end- this guy is Cayden's replica.
I pushed the guy’s weight off me so I could get up to see if Dom caught the ball, but I stopped short when I looked up at who had tackled me. It was… me? I must have hit my head. Hard. I heard cheers roaring, but they felt like they were coming from far away. That I was watching from a distance, even though I was there on the field.
From this point on Cayden's life is thrown into chaos. As if being freakishly fast and strong wasn't crazy enough without adding long lost brothers who share the same gifts to the mix...
Twisted is based on an interesting concept but I can't help feeling like the mechanism and the origin of the concept wasn't explained well enough. Along with that I felt like the story had too much dialogue, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but the dialogues weren't coupled up with enough emotion. We get to meet Cayden's girlfriend Dayne, his sister Kaylie, and his best friend Camilla, but we don't really get to know a whole lot about his feelings regarding them apart from the initial introductions. There's little to no reference to childhood pranks, or inside jokes, or even first dates. There was a lot of talking and doing, but very little of thinking.
Cayden's brothers were interesting but we don't catch a lot about their bonds amongst each other or their lives outside their family. I found myself really wanting to like Camilla a.k.a Cam but I just couldn't bring myself to. Cam was described as the nicest person ever but I just wished she'd grow a backbone and stand up to people who wrong her. I dunno; maybe that's just me.
Overall it was a nice story with a concept that had a lot of potential but there was just something lacking.
3 out of 5 stars!
Happy Reading Folks!
KayCee R
KayCee is a 24 year old self-published author from Cleveland, Ohio. KayCee has always loved reading. After a re-occurring dream she decided to try writing about it. She wrote the first installment of Twisted when she was 20. “I kept having this dream about these twins, and then I just decided to run with it. I wrote the beginning, the end, and then filled in the middle.” KayCee finished the book in 8 months and then decided to share the book online. After seeing people get interested in the book and the characters, she decided to write another book and turn Twisted into a series. KayCee has finished four novels in the Twisted series and is currently working on the fifth book.
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