Tamar Sloan and Heidi Catherine
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A broken world is separated into four quadrants – each one representing a different element; Air, Earth, Fire and Water – and all are primed to hate each other. When eight teenagers awaken on their eighteenth birthdays to find themselves floating on rafts in the outlaying section of the Water quadrant – otherwise known as the Deadwaters, they know they must band together if they hope to survive the freezing water and frigid air. But as each of them have no idea how they’ve got there, none of them even know what they’re supposed to do or where they’re supposed to go. It’s not until tragedy strikes and they’re forced to try to bring forward a supposedly mystical power before they miraculously appear in the Quakelands of the Earth quadrant that they begin to suspect not everything is quite as it seems.
Elemental Games is the first book in a brand new series from the Queens of Teen Dystopian Romance, Heidi Catherine and Tamar Sloan. But, unlike their other series, this world isn’t as recognisable as our planet in some sort of dystopian horror landscape; indeed, this time we’ve got a hint of magic and an undercurrent of religious fanaticism. It means, that although there’s the familiar formula of seeing the world from the point of view of the two romantic leads, we’ve also got more elements than their regular readers are used to. And, it works. Sloan and Catherine have managed to build in an atmosphere of tension, suspense and perhaps some aspects of a mystery thriller along with their usual themes of teens working through their feelings of inadequate, of love and hate and of (eventual) saving the world.
If this first book is anything to go by, then the rest of the series is going to be an absolute marvel, and potentially their best yet.
S. A.
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I was sent Elemental Games directly by Tamar Sloan and Heidi Catherine as an ARC in exchange for a fair and honest review.