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Title: Awakened

Subtitle: The Mind Agents Series, Book 1

Author: Igor Max

Narrator: Roderick Schulz

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-07-17

Publisher: Igor Max

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

A psychic superhero is born....

Life is hard for "bad boy" Jack Ellis. He's just minding his own business one day when government agents start chasing him. Soon a deadly terrorist also has him in his sights.

Why are they after him? Because they know something he doesn't - Jack has a paranormal gift that could make him an incredibly powerful teen superhero...or get him killed.

Join Jack as he discovers his awesome new psychic ability, enrolling in a top-secret government program with other psychic kids (including a teen girl with a uniquely romantic telepathic gift). Jack and his new friends must race against the clock and break every rule to develop their hidden paranormal powers in time to stop an out-of-control psychic terrorist bent on destroying the world!

Members Reviews:

A Kind of Fantastic 4 With Their Backs to the Wall and Pushing Their Limits

Awakened is a book I carry mixed emotions about. It has the potential to be a highly suspenseful thriller as the blurb on the front of the book would indicate. Yes, it is true it is a coming-of-age as a sometimes intense push at YA; so you have that cord of thought running through it. Psychic? - in spades surrounded by spades surrounded by spades. At times it comes off as the X-Men challenging a beefed up Magneto. Recalling the X-Men adventures, the government was not extremely helpful in their attempts to stop the baddies; so that is here as well. Thriller-wise, that part took a long time to come. When it does and the hidden agenda by the bad guy here Kasym goes into play, the beat of the drums here is frenetic, pulse pounding, and a push to the very end. Unfortunately (and I would wish otherwise), the two threads of the dangerous Kasym and our four youths took a while to weave together.

You might need some background and here goes. A dangerous man Kasym has a mission suited to his mental talents and the focus is in the political realm. Meanwhile, the gov't has been monitoring school students with special tests. The more talented ones (Jack, Chris, Maya & Sabine) have yet to face their own awakening of their special abilities. You don't tell nabbed kids diddley squat and leaving it up to them to discover them, thereby bonding them. The gov't comes off just as convoluted as ever. Now, when you leave it up to them, push them to the limit, the ending is downright explosive with backs to the wall.

So why 4 Stars? This deals with an aloof sense in the writing where the writer is setting things up. Aloof as in little character empathy where the characters are placed in the plot, do their stuff, say their say, like little mechanized figures in a complex clock appearing where they are appointed by the writer. Character empathy for me is extreme important because you are likely to lose the reader before you get to the really good stuff, such as the non-stop ending with psychic muscles straining and backs to the wall. The book was almost set aside for that very reason. The X-Men analogy would not be too far afield as a comparison with them in their beginning stages. Not a bad book and potentially really good, Can't say it much better than that.

A thrilling YA debut

I'm glad Igor Max's debut novel "Awakened" crossed my path.

The story's about a group of four young people who are brought to a government facility.