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When I was twelve, my mother disappeared. I was the first person to never find her. I'm sixteen now and she has never been found, alive or dead. I'm not the girl I should have been. When Charlotte Stevens, bright but failing, is sent to stay at her mother's childhood home in Somerset England her life is changed forever. While exploring the lavish family manor, Gaersum Aern, Charlotte discovers a stone puzzle box that contains a pentagram necklace and a note from her mother-clues to her family's strange past and her mother's disappearance. Charlotte must try to solve the puzzle box, decipher her mother's old journals, and figure out who is working to derail her efforts-and why. The family manor contains many secrets and hidden histories, keys to the elegant mystery Charlotte called mom and hopefully, a trail to finding her.
Ascendant, by Rebecca Taylor- Amazon Sales Rank: #3109709 in Books
- Published on: 2015-03-30
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.99" h x 1.01" w x 5.00" l, 1.07 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 452 pages
Review Taylor's new YA trilogy begins when a teen investigates her mother's disappearance while visiting the family's ancestral home in England.Sixteen-year-old Charlotte Stevens of Venice Beach, California, has just been caught plagiarizing. She downloaded and turned in a college essay for her Richard II assignment in English class. More embarrassing, her father is the bestselling mystery writer Simon Stevens. When the vice principal meets him, however, she finds him falling-down drunk. Simon acknowledges that he and his daughter haven't been doing well since his wife, Elizabeth, vanished four years ago. He decides to dry out in a clinic and sends Charlotte to Somerset, England, to stay with Elizabeth's brother, Nigel. Before meeting her uncle, Charlotte encounters Caleb and Sophie, the teen offspring of Nigel's housekeeper. They help situate her at the sumptuous Gaersum Aern estate, which has an ouroboros carved above the entrance. She also learns that wealthy scion Hayden Wriothesley, cousin to the royal family, has been tasked with her entertainment. Later, while staying in her mother's old bedroom, Charlotte discovers a puzzle box and a diary. Inside the box is a pentagram and cryptic note from her mother, and the diary reveals that Elizabeth had been infatuated with Hayden's father, Emerick, as a girl. Taylor (Tick Tock: Seven Tales of Time, 2016, etc.) unspools a posh, literary mystery. As elements like Shakespeare's true identity and Francis Bacon's lofty ideals enter the fray, Charlotte is torn between the bookish Caleb and the magnetic Hayden, whose Aston Martin "felt like an energy chamber, both exciting and sickening." Taylor's insight into the teen mind is as pointed as it is hilarious; the youngsters often act as though "being sixteen were a disease they needed to hide." As journals are explored and graves are uncovered, the central mystery gains traction. Meanwhile, romance takes full flight, and Taylor's superb characterizations leave readers guessing who's right for Charlotte (until one of them says, "I will be your first...then I'll be your only"). Some truly risqué moments gear this volume toward older readers.An emotionally robust, intellectually vibrant start to a new YA trilogy.--Kirkus"As Charlotte attempts to get to the heart of the matter--which involves a conspiracy stretching back centuries, connected to dark magic and aruthless group of powerful individuals--she navigates a perilous lovetriangle, a Gothic mystery, and various revelations. Taylor's (The Exquisite and Immaculate Grace of Carmen Espinoza) premise is solid, setting up all of the ingredients for her Ascendant trilogy." --Publishers Weekly
About the Author Rebecca Taylor is the young adult author of ASCENDANT, a recently selected finalist for the 2014 Colorado Book Award. The second book in the Ascendant series, MIDHEAVEN, will release in 2014 and her standalone novel, THE EXQUISITE AND IMMACULATE GRACE OF CARMEN ESPINOZA, is now available. You can find more information about her work at:Web: rebeccataylorbooks.comBlog: rebeccataylorbooks.blogspot.comTwitter: twitter.com/RebeccaTaylorEDGoodreads: goodreads.com/RebeccataylorFacebook: facebook.com/RebeccaTaylorBooks Wattpad: wattpad.com/user/RebeccaTaylorED
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Magical Tales of Goodness and Villainy By Richard M. Kennedy A month ago if you'd have have said, careful you could get hooked on YA novels I'd have said, right, not really likely. Color me wrong. I purchased and read 'Ascendant,' as a return of a favor from Rebecca Taylor, the author. Our paths had crossed through social media and she'd referred me to a research source. It seemed like an equitable exchange to acquire and read 'Ascendant. It was a rewarding decision to be sure. The plot is well drawn and clever, the characters are without question, sympathetic, rich, fascinating and some of them downright menacing.The story line swirls around a sixteen year old female protagonist, Charlotte and the disappearance of her mother, Elizabeth, four years previous, without a trace. After striving mightily to eek by day to day over those intervening years, Charlotte and her author-father are separated by dark necessity for the duration of the summer. She is swallowed up in series of sad and painful events that will propel her to Somerset, outside London, to the Spencer family ancestral home, Gaersum Aern. It is where her mother was raised and Charlotte once visited at the tender age of seven. This is where the story assumes velocity, involving spectral images, magic, astral planes, pentagrams, puzzle boxes, personal challenges, secret texts and rites of initiation to the occult.I genuinely, against long odds, loved this story. It is the clever work of a gifted imagination. Rebecca Taylor's prose, not only advanced for a first novel is at times truly elegant. I am anxiously awaiting the next episode in what promises to be a wonderful trilogy.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Interesting Storyline...Very Unique By Luv2ReadBooks The description of this book caught my attention right away. It didn't sound like anything I'd read before. From that perspective, it didn't disappoint. The story was fresh and unique. I liked Charlotte and Sophie. The friendship that blossomed between them was very believable. The romantic relationships, however, felt a bit flat. I didn't really buy that Charlotte felt all that strongly for Caleb or Hayden. With Hayden, lust seems to be more the emotion at play than love, and with Caleb, well, Charlotte seemed to see him as a friend and only try to be something more for his sake. That said, the mystery surrounding Charlotte's mother was very well done and kept me turning the page. I like the ending, and the possibility of a sequel. I noticed a few odd grammatical errors, but not enough to impact my enjoyment. Overall, I recommend this book to anyone who loves a good mystery.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. A solid debut from the author By lilradrad This review is also available at: http://heiressreviews.blogspot.com/2013/06/review-ascendant-by-rebecca-taylor.htmlWhile this book is far from perfect, I'm glad I stuck through it until the end. It took me awhile to actually get into the story, the characters are far from being likable and there are times when Charlotte's reactions feel awkward and her decisions pissed me off but the mystery of her mother's disappearance and connections with the past kept me going.Having lost her mother at a young age without any explanation why, Charlotte was torn between wanting to find out what happened to her but fearing that her idealistic memory of her was all a lie. Although the mystery unfolded a bit too slow for me, most of the questions were answered in the end; and even though I found some discrepancies throughout the book, it was entertaining enough for me to read on. I liked the part when she was reading her mother's diaries, it gave readers a bit of a backstory regarding the older characters. I think the most interesting character for me is Elizabeth Stevens (Charlotte's mother) when she was younger.The book was open ended, but I like the fact that there was no cliff hanger. Yes, there is an opening for a possible sequel but that doesn't mean you have to wait until then to unfold the premise's mystery.I will not classify this as romance, to do so I'd have to rate this book pretty low. I hated Charlotte's love interests. It seem unnatural that Caleb is mad over heels in love with her just because of one kiss when they were kids.Excerpt:He sighed and shut his eyes. "I love you, Charlotte." He opened his eyes and looked straight into mine, there was no questioning that he meant it. "I have loved you since I was nine," he smiled. "There has never been anyone...anyone but you."The fact that he professes to being in love with her since then is not only unbelievable but it is also somewhat creepy. In the end he was just an annoyingly pathetic guy with no backbone. Hayden, on the other hand is your typical spoiled, rich guy. His selfish reasons for wanting to hang out with Charlotte at the beginning were more believable than Caleb's undying love but it annoyed me that even he fell madly, obsessively in love with her without any inclination why.Excerpt:Hayden put the car in park and turned to me. "I don't know what you want to call it," he said. There wasn't even a hint of sarcasm on his face. "Soul mate, true love, other half, frankly I don't give a damn. But," he reached up and slid his hand behind my neck and my breath stopped. "all I know is that I want to be with you every moment."If there was buildup that she has some sort of irresistible allure with everyone around her, I can understand their adoration but there was not -- so their love felt too sudden and unrealistic.Overall, this was a solid debut from author Rebecca Taylor. There are flaws with the storyline and the writing but it was entertaining and some revelations were unexpected in good way.This book was provided by the author in exchange for an honest review.
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