Turned (Book #1 in the Vampire Journals)
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3.4 • 62 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Turned is book #1 in the #1 bestselling series The Vampire Journals, which includes eleven books (and counting).
In Turned, 18 year old Caitlin Paine finds herself uprooted from her nice suburb and forced to attend a dangerous New York City high school when her Mom moves again. The one ray of light in her new surroundings is Jonah, a new classmate who takes an instant liking to her.
But before their romance can blossom, Caitlin suddenly finds herself changing. She is overcome by a superhuman strength, a sensitivity to light, a desire to feed–by feelings she does not understand. She seeks answers to what’s happening to her, and her cravings lead her to the wrong place at the wrong time. Her eyes are opened to a hidden world, right beneath her feet, thriving underground in New York City. She finds herself caught between two dangerous covens, right in the middle of a vampire war.
It is at this moment that Caitlin meets Caleb, a mysterious and powerful vampire who rescues her from the dark forces. He needs her to help lead him to the legendary lost artifact. And she needs him for answers, and for protection. Together, they will need to answer one crucial question: who was her real father?
But Caitlin finds herself caught between two men as something else arises between them: a forbidden love. A love between the races that will risk both of their lives, and will force them to decide whether to risk it all for each other…
Customer Reviews
SPOILERS
Honestly, I’m done reading Morgan Rice’s books. They are just so unexplainably bad, and I really hate saying that, especially since I know how difficult it is to write a book. But, considering Morgan Rice is apparently a New York Times best seller, I would imagine her stories would get better as the time passes. I was wrong. Sorry Rice, I tried really hard but I just can’t do it anymore. (Also, I refuse to mark any books less than 2 stars because I know how hard it is to write stuff, but if I did, this would be a 1 star).
Caitlyn was such a hatable character I cannot even put it into words. She falls in love so fast. Like, met with Jonah on her first day of school? Head over heels for him. Met Caleb in a random spur of events? In love with him like 4 hours later, and is offended when he claims he has a wife. Girl…
ALSO VAMPIRES THAT ARE 3,000 YEARS OLD HAVE THE NAMES KYLE AND CALEB??? That is so damn funny to me honestly.
I don’t even care about Caitlyn’s plot armour at this point— the story writing was terrible. Like, Sam dropped off the face of the planet and no one seems to care. The crazy mom dies? No one cares. Caitlyn just cares about boys, and it’s funny because in the first chapter, she claims she’s not one to fall in love very easily. Yep, my mom just died but I’m gonna leave her to go to a concert with this dude I met three days ago. Pure talent I swear: not.
Painful to listen to
By the end of the book I had turned it off around a dozen times because I could not stand listening to the voice actress’ stilted reading. I kept listening thinking perhaps the horrible audio was the issue and the book would get better. Eventually I only listened just to be done with it and have one more book towards my years reading goal.
The plot is mediocre and predictable at best. The writing is juvenile. I wrote similarly in elementary school creative writing class. I gave the benefit of the doubt that it my be a first book of a very young self published author and perhaps she developed her writing. However it seems she has not as I read other reviews. She seems to mass write and publish without editing or pruning her books and gives away the first book in order to claim #1 best seller status.
The one good thing about this book is that it made me realize I ought to pull up my big girl panties and finish the thirty some books I have partially written over the past two decades and just self publish. I know they are at least better than Turned and maybe I can make a little cash to get my little girl some parkour lessons next year.