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Theonite: Planet Adyn (Book 1 in the Theonite Series) by [M. L. Wang]

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Joan is at her happiest when she uses her powers - stirring air currents, creating fire, and levitating metal objects - but she learned at a young age that no one in her small-minded suburban town was prepared to accept her abilities. Since that painful revelation, she has hidden her powers, isolating herself from others, even keeping her own parents at a distance.

However, all that changes when a boy named Daniel Thundyil transfers to her school and she begins to suspect that he is concealing powers of his own. Burning with curiosity and desperate to end her loneliness, Joan makes it her mission to get to the bottom of this boy's secrets. What she doesn't realize is that Daniel isn't just another Earthling with uncanny abilities; he is an inter-dimensional traveler from a world of super-powered beings. And the moment she started prying into his life, she put herself in the sights of the godlike evil that follows him from his dimension.

Now, the most powerful girl on Earth faces a choice: will she retreat back to the safety of her life in hiding or brave the storm for a chance at truth and friendship?

For Daniel Thundyil and his crime-fighter father, Robin, adventures in exotic places are nothing new. The two of them have chased criminals all over their own planet of super-powered beings. But this is the first time a mission has brought them to a parallel dimension, and something about it doesn't sit right with Daniel. Questions gather like storm clouds: Who is this villain they are hunting? Why won't Robin reveal his name? As the sky darkens, Daniel and Joan start to wonder who is really being hunted.

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About the Author

M. L. Wang was born in Wisconsin in 1992, decided she wanted to be an author at the age of nine, and never grew up. She got her Bachelor of Arts in history from Knox College in 2015 and currently works at a martial arts school in her home city of Madison.

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"Epic powers, new worlds, and hidden magic... what more can I ask for, honestly?" - We Read Fantasy (Instagram)
"This was such a unique take on a story that could have been one I'd seen before... a fantastic start to the series!!" - Merphy Napier, Booktuber & author of Perfection
"This book was fantastic! ... a nostalgic and unique ride I recommend everybody hop on." - Binta Userkaf, Booktuber (Positive Writer) & author of Itchikan
"A coming of age superhero story with incredibly unique ideas... Fantastic read for teens who love good sci-fi that isn't same-old." - Kickarse Reviews (Goodreads) ★★★★★
"There wasn't a time I wanted to put it down." - Goodreads Review ★★★★★
"I don't usually read science fiction but this became one of my favorite books." - Goodreads Review ★★★★★
"This is a great series for anyone in their teen or preteen years, especially those who don't quite fit in in their schools and/or communities... The author does a fantastic job exploring social issues through a fun adventure story that anyone can enjoy." - Goodreads Review ★★★★★
"This is a great short read to introduce you to the basic concepts of a new world with super powers and real life problems." - Goodreads Review ★★★★★
"Theonite is an awesome series, and this book does a perfect job of setting it up! Joan and Daniel are written realistically and you can't help but love Robin. The mystery is set up and creates a tense atmosphere which leads to the emotional climax and ending is great!" - Goodreads Review ★★★★★
"This book has a lot of depth to it, a lot of heart, and a lot of emotion." - Goodreads Review ★★★★★
"I thought it would be a little interesting, but I didn't think I would sit here glued to this book and read it practically in one sitting! ...Highly Recommend. Go. Read. It. Now." - Goodreads Review ★★★★★
"I LOVED this book. From the start, it grabbed me and didn't want to let go. M. L. Wang has a serious love of sci-fi, fantasy, and superheroes. The culmination of that love comes out in this book." - Goodreads Review ★★★★★
"A wonderful start to such a promising series, Theonite: Planet Adyn opens your eyes to what it's like to live a life without being able to be who you were truly meant to be." - Goodreads Review ★★★★★
"An amazing story which combines classic tropes of the super powered teen with elements of science fiction... This book is a great addition to any fantasy and sci-fi lover's library. As it takes so many plot points common in tales of superheroes or space travel, teens with more power than they know what to do with and extraterrestrials making contact with Earthlings, it will feel familiar to anyone who enjoys such stories without feeling overdone." - Goodreads Review ★★★★★
"To say I'm blown away by this book would be an understatement. I love everything about it. The characters, the story, the world-building; everything is absolutely wonderful." - Goodreads Review ★★★★★
"An inventive, compelling story that had me itching for the next book as soon as I realized I was nearing the end." - Goodreads Review ★★★★★ --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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"You know how metal sort of... hums when you touch it? And sometimes, when it's humming like that, you can push your feelings through it and use it to move stuff?" It was something I had always been able to do. Why were they all looking at me like I was crazy? "What's wrong with her?" one of the boys whispered. "Girls are weird," Zander said in a knowing voice. "They always wanna talk about their feelings." "I'm not being weird!" I protested angrily. "And I'm not just talking about my feelings. I'm talking about my..." but as soon as I started the sentence, I realized that I didn't have a word for it. Was there a word for what I had just done? As I looked around at Tyreese, Zander, and the others, it was obvious that they had no idea what I was trying to describe. Now that I thought about it, no one ever seemed to know what I was talking about when this came up. There had been the time Papa had been fishing in his pocket for change in the grocery store line and I told him, "You don't have enough." "What?" "You only have a penny and three dimes," I had said, nodding to the coins I could feel humming through the denim of his pocket. "It's not enough." He had looked at me in stunned silence--as though it was somehow strange that I knew what was in his pocket without looking--before getting out his credit card and paying with that instead. Then there was the time Mama lost her car keys. "What are you doing?" I had asked, unable to figure out why she was frantically digging through her purse when the keys were calling out from the car floor as clear as bells. "They're under your seat." "Really?" she said, sticking her hand under the driver's seat and groping blindly in all the wrong places. "Did you see them fall down there?" "No, I feel them," I said. "They're more to the left. Can't you feel them?"Mama had paused then and looked up at me with that tense, alarmed expression that told me I had said something wrong. I just didn't know what it was. "They're right by your hand," I said, leaning forward in my booster. "You can't feel them at all?" Mama didn't answer. She had stopped grasping for the keys. "Here." I made a pushing motion with my arm, nudging the keys toward her. When they bumped up against her fingertips, she uttered a scream of surprise that made me stop. "Sorry." I lowered my arm. I wasn't sure what I was apologizing for. I just knew I had never seen Mama's eyes so wide. --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01F1WHZKE
Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 1, 2016
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 5767 KB
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Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 287 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1535051027
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Steven M. BrownTop Contributor: Fantasy Books

Fun and interesting, with a few reader speed bumps

Reviewed in the United States on July 10, 2020

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This first book of the series is certainly entertaining with some good characters and intriguing world building. Depending on the rest of the series or books set in these world's it could be more than a one time read. (Edit NOTE: Author has discontinued this series and with the style of the writing meaning that over arching story lines are left hanging and to be honest I would not have jumped in to the series if I had known) This book felt more like long proluge or the first half of book. Everything is to set to get the characters where the authors really wanted them, that is where book two is, rather the flushing out characters in a complete and well rounded story in and of it self.

Before I get into reader speed bumps I will say this book is a good read and can be enjoyed by those who like fantasy mixed with sci to. They is a few instances of strong language that i feel bumps it up to an older YA range about PG15 but the style of writting does have many of the ya hooks dispite the setting.

There was a lot of "oh cool" moments that made the story exciting, and because i don't want to spoil it I'm left a bit of complaining. The quality of the work was such that it pulled me along quite quickly at times which made the several reader speed bumps knock me out of the story that much worse. Despite how intelligent the main protagonist Joan is, and how she has cut her self off from others, she does not read like a 13 year old. It felt more like something aimed at older young adults minus the romance and friendships. Granted chapter 1 starts out with the feel of first person epistolary, it never felt right. The way she looked at her parents seemed off. They where rather flat and only in the story it seemed because a 13 year old needed parents, and as a way to show how superior she was to them.

Honestly it was the realtionships with her parents that did not make sense, even with how the author tried to set it up and explain away how they did not know or ignored the fact that their child was unquie.

Over all age of how the protagonists feels seems older by three or four more years.

This is a lot of complaining but it comes from a place where I truly enjoyed the story and see it's spots all the more.

There was an mountain of info dumping, granted much of it was interesting it did slow down the pacing slot. What threw me more than anything was the distainful way the author randomly portrayed the Christian mother and later on Christianity it self. This was set in the point of view of a 13 year genius but it really served no purpose in the story other than to exspress the possible views of the author. It does seem like spirituality is a sore point with the character so it is my hope that it becomes a more well rounded characterization in stead of a straw man to take shots at.

There was also some aspects of the story concerning common sense, for example a jungle gym, or really nothing on a play ground, can be weighed in the tons. Students do not get exspelled from school for smoking, you get detention or at suspended for a couple days. This may be a silly thing to notice but it came out in a way where the author was trying to show the reader an example of racism but it did not flow quite well. As race seemed to be so something that would be focused on in book 2 if felt like the author was planting seeds in book one.

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An Engrossing Story

Reviewed in the United States on June 22, 2018

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Tired of her lonely existence, Joan Messi has promised herself that she'll discover who and what she truly is no matter the consequence. For years, she's had to keep her powers a secret. Imagine her surprise when she meets not one, but two people who are like her in so many ways. Daniel and his father have the answers she so desperately craves. Getting them, however, will take every bit of her patience and then some.

A wonderful start to such a promising series, Theonite: Planet Adyn opens your eyes to what it's like to live a life without being able to be who you were truly meant to be. Joan has learned this fact from an early age. Wanting to fit in, she's hidden her powers in the hopes that someday she'll have the answers she seeks. She devours books about strange phenomenon like there's no tomorrow, all in the hopes of understanding the power she harbors inside.

While this is a coming-of-age story, it's also one about the trials and tribulations of a girl who's been unable to confide and trust in those around her. Her life has been a painful one. So much so, that she nurses her hopes, wants, and needs in secret. Throughout the years, Joan has grown in so many ways, a fact the author shows us every step of the way.

It's wonderful to see how well Joan and Daniel get along. Granted, their lives are quite chaotic, yet they're willing to try to make sense of the world around them. The emotions the author has invoked into the story and the characters themselves pop off every page. You can clearly envision the world she's created, too. The unique language she's created for these characters makes me wonder what it would honestly sound like in real life. An engrossing story, I can't wait to see what happens next with Joan and Daniel.

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An interesting story that mostly sets up the sequel

Reviewed in the United States on June 26, 2018

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I LOVE friendship stories over romance stories. I loved Joan and Daniel, and the relationship between Daniel and his father. And while the book was a little slow to grab my attention, once it got me interested in how Joan figured out her powers I was hooked. All the world building we got of Duna, even while still on Earth, was fascinating.

But I would give it a full five stars. I wish it stood on its own as a story a little more. It’s a fascinating exposition, but still just an exposition. We learn a lot about Duna and Joan’s powers that I assume we’ll need for the next book, but not a lot about what happened in this one. Most of the answers are as hidden from us as they are to Joan and Daniel, and while that’s a brilliant way to make us sympathize and share their frustration, it’s still…. you know, frustrating. It had more dialogue and explanation than plot. It seems like part one of a two part book, not an entire book.

Also, Joan is thirteen, so we can assume her classmates are in that range too… yet there are dramatic breakup scenes between kids in her classes and one girl who’s always described as aggressively slutty. I think the author forgot she put her main character in middle school for a moment there. I mean, thirteen-year-olds haven’t had much time to form on-and-off-again relationships, have they?

Those things aside, I mostly enjoyed this book.

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M. King

Oh what a disappointment

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 2, 2019

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I bought this book after reading the excellent Sword of Kaigen which is a mature exhilarating read.

This book , written in a YA style , is the opposite and tells the silly story of an super-powered thirteen year old and the boy from another dimension who comes to her school whilst he and his father are hunting a killer. Yes, it’s as stupid as it sounds. Our heroine is a bratty precocious child who no-one could warm to which doesn’t help.

There’s a thing as well where so much of this world seems at odds with what we saw in the Sword of Kaigen, you know like inter-dimensional space travel in this book compared to the reasonably techy but still feudal world in Sword of Kaigen.

I can only assume that Sword was written by the author when she was a bit more grown up, whilst this was written when she was thirteen herself.

It’s awful. But don’t be put off Sword, that’s fantastic.

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Istahil

Two Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 15, 2017

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Didn't enjoy it unfortunately

Alex Atimos

Good read, interesting premise and solid characters

Reviewed in Germany on March 25, 2019

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The idea: A young girl. Joan, has super powers. She’s had them all her life. But she’s the only human on earth with these abilities. Besides her struggling to keep this whole thing a secret and flying under the radar, a family of interdimensional bounty hunters appears in her neighbourhood. It turns out: They are special too. But there’s a reason behind their appearance in her town.

On the con side:

Exposition
We get a whole chapter dedicated to her baby-years and how she learned to conceal her powers. It’s well written. But it would have been so much cooler if it was embedded in the story. Instead, it’s just narration. It’s like a montage in a super hero movie. This makes the whole process rather dull and she seems oh so perfect in the end.

Then there’s the thing with the parallel universe. Joan gets all the information on a silver platter. Instead of discovering it bit by bit, Space-Dad shoves it in her face.

On the other hand: He doesn’t mention crucial stuff. Because children shouldn’t have to deal with such stuff. While this is a perfectly good answer in real life, it undermines the whole concept of the book. Why did he take his son with him without giving him background information? Why did he tell the children anything at all? It just feels as if this information was left out to create conflict.

Age
No teenage character acts their age. Either that or I’m really out of touch with teenagers. Joan’s supposed to be 13 but she speaks and acts like 30. Same goes for Daniel, son of Space-Dad. They judge the consequences of their actions correctly, they show knowledge beyond their years, and they notice stuff normal teenagers would ignore. They don’t even seem to be a huge problem to their parents - for different reasons.

Fillers in dialogue
There’s a difference between dialogue and spoken language. Theonite doesn’t always respect that boundary which makes reading dialogue cringe worthy. There are some fillers in it (like) which have no place being there. I know it’s supposed to sound more natural, but the opposite is the case. It’s just awkward.

On the pro side:

I really liked the plot. It’s interesting to see what a girl would do with her superpowers when there was no-one around to teach her. No mentor, no guidance, no-one to trust. Especially considering Joan’s family situation.

Characters
Even though I just criticised the actions of those teens, I’m glad they don’t act their age. I’m not into children’s books. (Unfortunately, Amazon doesn’t show the age of the target audience in my country.) I got the feeling that the characters have (mostly) a very good reason for being who they are, that there’s a story behind their quirks and behaviour in general. That’s great.

The parents
There’s quite a good explanation for Joan’s parents acting the way they do. So even though she’s got both, mum and dad, she’s basically free to do whatever she wants. And we do see how she feels about it.

The writing itself is good. It’s easy to read and engaging enough to be interesting. Nicely done.

All in all I give Theonite a solid 3 out of 5 Stars which makes it a good read. Writing, characters and plot are great, it’s just these parts with exposition and the age of the protagonist which bother me.

Cliente Amazon

An Solid YA book

Reviewed in Brazil on December 17, 2019

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The reviewers that gives this book a 1, 2 stars are mostly being unfair, because they probably read the sword of kaigen first (a masterpiece, imo), but a VERY different kind of book, this a YA, that was a drama book on a fantasy setting, two completely different beasts.

Said that, and given the fact that this is her first book, and it is round around the edges, it's a worthwile read if you're into YA, and the mature themes that shines on TSOK appears on a rough state here, the shitty relation on the family of the protagonist, the feeling of impending doom of a seemingly invincible antagonist.

Samia

Amazing

Reviewed in Canada on October 20, 2019

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One of the most unique series I've ever read. Has amazing world building in both universes. I love how Planet Adyn and it's power system was introduced and can't wait to read it to the end. The characters are amazing and I love the parent-child relationships depicted. The mystery is really well done too.

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