Turned (Book #1 in the Vampire Journals)
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3.8 • 409 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
Turned
When you’ve got an audio book, a good narrator is key! This book doesn’t have that. I managed to get through the entire book but I probably would have finished it a lot sooner had it been someone different narrating it. I could only take so much at a time! Bits and pieces only!
Good book
Honestly, a really good book. I’m definitely going to read the rest of the other books.
Interesting tale, Ruined by the narrator
 Romance fluff from the POV of a very immature 18-year-old, whose emotional intelligence, despite a troubled and abusive upbringing, is more that of a 14 year old. But then again, it could’ve been written by a 16-year-old.
In several places, the wrong words were used glaringly, suggesting that it was either very poorly edited or editing was totally forgone.
ie: cacophonous, rather than cavernous and
pantheon, rather than Parthenon.
The story is not so poor, but it is rendered so by pathetic narration. Brianna, Knickerbocker reads as if just learning how. Her timid, tortuous read is trumped only by her frustrating, hesitant pace, making you check the playback speed to make sure you have it set fast enough for normal. Come to think of it, maybe speeding it up a bit would help? It certainly couldn’t hurt. Why someone would put their novel into the hands, or mouth, I guess, of a nine-year-old with a reading disability is beyond me.