Nadia’s Tears
By Julie Gilbert
Publisher: Julie Gilbert
Published: July 31, 2013
ISBN: 1490586229
Amazon Synopsis:
Jillian
must enter Nadia's dreams to wake her from a mysterious coma. In Nadia's
dreams, Jillian meets several versions of her sister, including the elegant
Queen Elena, fierce Naidine, and heartbroken Nadie. Meanwhile, Danielle must
save her friend Christy from making choices that could get them both killed.
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My Thoughts:
Nadia’s Dreams is book two in
the Devya’s Children’s series, but can be read as a stand-alone novel. Nadia is one of the children than was created
by genetic
manipulation/combination to create children with specific gifts and
abilities by Dr. Dean Devya. Dr. Devya keeps most of his “projects” living in
his scientific compound where he raises them and trains them to use their gifts.
Nadia keeps in almost daily contact with her sister Jillian, one of the two fortunates
of Dr. Devya’s creations that do not live on his compound. They communicate by
talking to each other in their dreams; Nadia can project her thoughts and
Jillian can manipulate dreams. Then suddenly, Nadia stops communicating.
Jillian becomes concerned
about Nadia and contacts their brother Varick to find out what is wrong. That’s
when the adventure starts. This time Jillian, with the help of Danielle,
arranges the time and place of her own kidnapping – to keep her family safe,
races to save Nadia from a coma and then helps Nadia put the final touches on
the escape plan when Danielle rescues her friend Christy.
This was another busy
adventure for Jillian and Danielle. Though separated by distance, they were
never far from one another’s thoughts and each worked to help rescue a friend
from mortal danger, putting themselves at great risk. This book speaks a lot
about the value of family and friendship.
Written in the same quirky
style as Ashlynn’s Dreams, we again read through the letters to Jillian’s
psychologist as written by Jillian and Danielle about the experiences that they
had through this adventure. This style
lends itself nicely to following the two different situations going on at the
same time. It made it easy to follow both.
This book also had the theme
of slavery throughout. I liked that the author was willing to bring up such a
topic in a teen/young adult book in order to get them to think about serious
issues of this type. It isn’t a topic we think much about in North America, but
is does exist, even here. Kudos, Julie!
I found this to be a very
entertaining, interesting book to read. Though it deals with the serious issues
of slavery, prostitution, and drugs, the book neither made light of the issues
nor made the book depressing to read. Jillian and Danielle seemed to have
matured in their desire to help others from the previous book, but they still
maintain some of that teenage “stupidity” that comes from inexperience by
trying to take dangerous situations into their own hands.
I would recommend this book
to all teens and young adults who like mystery, adventure and fantasy. I gave
it a rating of four stars.
Thank you to the author Julie
Gilbert who provided a copy of this book in exchange for a fair and honest
review. I was not required to provide a positive opinion. My thoughts are my
own.
About the Author:Julie writes, reads, reviews, plays video games, and teaches chemistry. She’s mildly disturbed by the fact that 10 words can sum up her life. Her stories have fallen into many categories, including Christian, science fiction, YA, and fantasy (not all at the same time!). She enjoys detailed letters, snail mail style, as well as emails but cannot quite grasp this texting thing.
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