Faces (A FACES Novel Book 1)

His love for the butterfly lady is completely unbelievable and feels much more like fleeting lust cemented by sex with a wooden doll. That just killed it for me. But in order for me to believe that Furian actually doubted her, then he would have to be an utter moron.

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To be fair, though, his behavior in the rest of the book does not suggest any differently, but I'm incapable of rooting for a hero with a total of two brain cells to rub together who is supposed to be intelligent. If you can get past the first one hundred pages, which are tedious beyond all measure, there is a reasonably interesting mystery behind it all.

What is happening is clear err, except to Furian the idiot from the beginning, but the how is what kept me reading and the way Lee ties everyone together is extremely satisfying. The book's high point is definitely Doctor Shaachen and his magic; everything was much more entertaining when he was around. Lee does have a lovely way with words and the images she can evoke are almost better suited to poetry than to fantasy.

Her descriptions of Venus are deliciously full and inviting. Despite the strange and dreamy quality of her words, the place she creates comes through with all the vividness of a surrealist painting. It is disappointing to find that the material does not remotely do justice to the language.

Dec 29, Nic rated it liked it. This book was full of interesting ideas but seemed a little simplistic. I am not a fan of long speeches that reveal the sinister plots of any villain and the one in this book felt too heavy. I will; however, read the next one since I hope for better things to come. Aug 26, Cozette rated it really liked it. Wonderful story in an alternate Venice; the best of dark masquerades and magic.

Dec 09, Lauren rated it liked it Shelves: Apr 25, Andee Browne rated it did not like it Shelves: I'm not sure why this book utterly failed to hold my attention, seeing as I usually love Tanith Lee, but I gave up halfway through. Tracy rated it liked it Jul 14, Carmen rated it really liked it Jul 16, Merry Frank rated it liked it Aug 05, Lindsay rated it really liked it May 16, Rebeccation rated it liked it Sep 05, Jes Harding rated it did not like it Jul 22, Millissa Alger rated it it was amazing Feb 04, Abe Pralle rated it really liked it Apr 08, Kit rated it really liked it Jul 06, Shy rated it really liked it Sep 22, David rated it really liked it Jan 12, Alice Frost rated it it was amazing Aug 06, Anna Maria rated it liked it Aug 12, Barbara rated it liked it Sep 22, Gina rated it it was amazing Feb 07, Polly rated it did not like it Apr 21, Zackman rated it liked it Feb 11, Andrija rated it really liked it Apr 09, Aeri rated it liked it Sep 18, There are no discussion topics on this book yet.

Tanith Lee was a British writer of science fiction, horror, and fantasy. She was the author of 77 novels, 14 collections, and almost short stories. Very Mission Impossible, but without the prosthetics or gadgets, because Jory and her family are shape shifters, who can mimic anyone's body, face and voice. Shape shifters live in the shadows, staying under the government radar. Their existence is barely hinted at on conspiracy websites, and shifters are cautious about getting caught and ending up in some Area 51 vivisection laboratory.

Needless to say, Jory's family moves around a lot. She doesn't attend school or have friends - only one other shifter family that they work with, who happen to have a teenaged son. Kalif is the first shifter boy Jory has ever known, and he's somewhat of a tech genius.

She's developed something of a crush on him, which her parents notice and tease her about. But when her parents don't come home from a routine assignment, Kalif is the only one Jory can trust to help her find out what happened. Both teens have been somewhat sheltered by their parents, not allowed to participate in higher stakes missions or informed of some of the dangers of their world. Their parents think they're kids, and not ready to handle or execute anything of importance, trying to exclude them from investigating what happened to Jory's parents.

Together, Kalif and Jory use their training to search for answers and conduct undercover ops that reveal uncomfortable truths for everyone. This is a unique coming-of-age novel, told exclusively in Jory's first person point of view. The first-love romance between Jory and Kalif is sweet nothing beyond kisses and hugs, and a growing attachment. I think the book is misclassified as science fiction and should be YA paranormal, which would be a better audience for the POV and storyline. Because despite some tepid Amazon reviews, this is an awesome storyline, great characters, well-executed timing, and world building of a secret subset of society that doesn't rely on any apocolyptic shift in the current world, but layers right into the shadows of real-time America.

Obviously, I can't say enough good things about this book. Grab a copy and decide for yourself. Sixteen-year-old Jory and her family have a dangerous secret: Her family has recently begun a cautious truce with another shape-shifting family, working together in a series of assignments.

What they find, instead, is a mystery much closer to ho Sixteen-year-old Jory and her family have a dangerous secret: What they find, instead, is a mystery much closer to home, and in a landscape of shifting identities and lies, Jory has to decide who she can trust, before she loses her parents forever. This book has some pretty amazing praise from NYT bestselling authors: The prose was clean, and the story fast-paced and intense. Parents Missing, Exceptionally Intelligent kids to the Rescue Wonderful build up to fast paced exciting climax. Shapeshifters as never before read about, makes it seem so plausible, and more scary the further along we go.

Fascinating concepts of humans shapshifting into others, to test security or protocol issues of high tech firms, when a set of parents go missing. Jory enlists the help of her tech savvy friend Kalif to investigate and find papertrails, motives, and double crossing to find her p Parents Missing, Exceptionally Intelligent kids to the Rescue Wonderful build up to fast paced exciting climax. Jory enlists the help of her tech savvy friend Kalif to investigate and find papertrails, motives, and double crossing to find her parents.

The paces quicken when they find they've been spied on and found out. Incredible turns and double-backs leaves everyone wondering who to trust. Great read, loved the believable characters. Hope there are sequels I'm not sure if it is, but this is one of those books that practically screams, "Good first effort. The concept is well-fleshed out as well. The big problem here is making sure that it isn't so self-contained. The MC keeps talking about people whose lives they've ruined, so it might have been nice to see that a little more.

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The villain, as others have said, was a little o I'm not sure if it is, but this is one of those books that practically screams, "Good first effort. The villain, as others have said, was a little one-note as well. The pacing was probably the area that needed the most work. That said, this was a free book, and on the better end of books I haven't paid anything for. Slow to get going I almost put it down immediately because the author described the main character's breasts twice on the first two pages--maybe that's just a personal pet peeve of mine but I'm glad I kept reading because there were some fun twists.

I don't know if I liked it enough to continue in the series, but the author did leave some unanswered questions at the end for a sequel hook. Strong romance but weaker action The romance portion of the book is very well written. It was full of emotion and believable. There were some good plot twists, but I had a harder tome getting emotionally engaged.

In retrospect, they were mostly summarized and not fully fleshed out. The ending was an exception to this and redeemed a book I was fading on. Took me a little while to get into, but the story was different and thrilling. Shifting through the book in no time What a book. A mix of good and bad in both. One family who changed their ways and the other had more problems than they thought. A psychiatrist would have a field day!

The main characters are both teenagers. Hormones, family rules and bad guys trying to kill them. Not knowing who to trust even the parents. Solid YA Tale A look at what it is to be different and to hide in plain sight. The young protagonists have depth and maturity beyond their chronological years.

The emotional fallout from the events in this book are yet to be made manifest in their young lives. Interesting take on shifters These aren't were-shifters. Instead they can make themselves look like anyone they choose. Company espionage is how they survive, until they turn on each other! An interesting take on shape-shifters and the question of discerning what is real, all wrapped in a spy thriller format. Juvenile protagonists made this more for teenage reading, but I still enjoyed it.

Intriguing This has a great storyline and it is unique in the way that it deals with the shape shifters and how they can tell who they are even after shifting their appearance. Jory was a strong female MC. The characters had good back stories and grew with the story. Lots of twists and turns. I really enjoyed this book. It had nicely contained YA language and situations. Felt kind of like Secondborn or Interesting premise and well written, especially compared to a lot of the YA paranormal books out there.

Enough so that I read the rest of the series. I think this is the first in a series, at least it is set up to be, but there is plenty of plot for it to stand alone. This is a decent thriller about a decent journalist investigating the execution of four people, their bodies "stacked like cordwood" in a vacant lot in Newark, New Jersey. Seemingly, Parks actually wrote about a similar event while on assignment for The Star-Ledger in Back to t Library Journal described this book as "the most hilariously funny and deadly serious mystery debut since Janet Evanovich's One for the Money.

Back to the book and the cops are saying this execution was revenge for a local bar hold up, but investigative reporter, Carter Ross uncovers a completely different story. I wasn't convinced by the character of Carter Ross. He's far too prissy for a newspaper reporter - he'd far more likely be writing features instead of working a crime beat. Throw in Carter Ross' juvenile humour and the story tends to get a bit wearing. The basic plot, however, is based on a good idea and makes me want to check out other Brad Parks to see if his stories have improved.

Overall, I'd have given it 3 stars if the dialogue - and Carter Ross' dress sense - had been a bit snappier.

Aug 10, Beth rated it really liked it. This book is set in Newark, NJ, certainly one of the least salubrious locations I can think of. Parks does not try to make the city something other than it is so Newark, with all its poverty and crime, is a character in the story. The story opens with the execution style murders of four drug dealers who are killed at one of the many vacant lots in the city. The bodies are left in the open so they will be found quickly. It had to be made clear to the others in the organization, especially those who might consider straying themselves, that this was the price for disobedience.

Carter Ross, the investigative journalist of the Newark Eagle -Examiner disagrees with the senior reporter and the editor of his paper. They are convinced that the four were involved in the robbery of a nearby bar but Carter thinks that is too simple an explanation. The four had all been in prison and, upon leaving, had begun careers as heroin dealers. But they worked in distinctly different areas of the city. As Carter investigates and becomes involved with the families of the dead, he learns about lives that never got started and a life that had promise but got badly derailed.

In that the nearly simultaneous incidents take place within a couple of hours of the story hitting the street, Carter realizes that he has made an enemy of someone who has a clear channel to the newspaper.

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Carter Ross might as well be a man from another planet in the neighborhoods of Newark. The product of prep school and Amherst College, the street life is foreign to him but Carter is a man who likes his job and likes getting the stories of people who are victims out to the reading public.

Carter believes in the power of the press as an instrument of good and works the story no matter where it takes him. Parks is working on the second book of the series and I look forward to reading it. Even in notorious drug infested cities such as Newark, NJ four bodies, killed gang-land style and stacked like cordwood, still pulls headlines for the local press.

Carter Ross, investigative journalist for the Newark Eagle-Examiner catches a break when he feels that the local police have drawn a hasty conclusion to the reason for the killing and his leads take him to the dark under-belly of the city. Making a connection with all four dead gang members through a special kind of heroin, almost pure Even in notorious drug infested cities such as Newark, NJ four bodies, killed gang-land style and stacked like cordwood, still pulls headlines for the local press.

Making a connection with all four dead gang members through a special kind of heroin, almost pure and the best on the street, leads to dire consequences for not only the families and friends of the people he interviewed to get the story correct, but for himself too. A lucky rendezvous with a horny editor finds Carter not sleeping in his home when it is blown to smithereens. Rather than be warned off, Carter takes aim with both barrels while being helped by his gay, Cuban side-kick intern, a plucky local stripper with nothing to lose.

With a nudge from local gang members wanting to help keep their name out of the police blotter for being involved with selling drugs, manages to outwit the Federal Drug Bureau and the local police by getting to the source to get the real story on the front page as an exclusive. Parks, drawing on his experience as a journalist, takes us on a page-turning, stomach-churning race across Newark. The humor dispersed through the sarcastic vein that Ross expels had me chuckling aloud and reading paragraphs to whoever would listen within the first three or four pages, and continues throughout in rich fashion.

This debut novel has a plot that is solid and well developed. For lack of a better word, the story rocks! A page turner that I finished the same day I started, I just couldn't put it down. Nov 06, Ryan Mishap rated it it was ok Shelves: Parks shows promise with an often witty style and a decent mystery. A first book, it suffers from common problems, mainly obviousness regarding characters. The gay assistant can't just be gay, he has to be flamboyant. The hot editrix isn't just lusty, she wants a sperm donor for a baby biological clock ladies, tick, tick, you better reproduce or you aren't a real woman.

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Also, the story takes p Parks shows promise with an often witty style and a decent mystery. Also, the story takes place in a predominantly black area of Newark so we have the obligatory gang members, drug sellers, dirty tenements, and, as mentioned, the no-nonsense stripper. The racial stereotypes are merely confirmed, here, as is the racism that produces them. My point isn't that there aren't gangs, drug dealers or what have you in real life, but that in stories like these that's all black people get to be--racist stereotypes instead of well-drawn characters.

Mar 18, Anna Louise rated it really liked it. Discovering a promising new writer is one of the real joys of reading. Brad Parks was recommended to me and lives in Virginia. There's no need to worry with author Brad Parks, however, as he's delivered a first-rate crime thriller. A quadruple homicide is front page news even in crime-ridden Newark, and Discovering a promising new writer is one of the real joys of reading.

A quadruple homicide is front page news even in crime-ridden Newark, and Ross is determined to pursue the story no matter the cost. Parks was a bright new talent whom readers will hopefully be able to enjoy for years to come. Apr 13, Susan Johnson rated it it was amazing. I first read the "Girl Next Door" and enjoyed it so much that I went back to read the two earlier ones.

This is the debut novel and quite enjoyable. Carter Ross, an investigator reporter for the Newark daily newspaper, pursues the story and gets his house blown up and almost dies. This is a gre I first read the "Girl Next Door" and enjoyed it so much that I went back to read the two earlier ones. This is a great beginning for a series. Although it's enjoyable, it's not as funny as the "Girl Next Door" which made me laugh out aloud. This is series to follow and I can't wait for the next one.

Feb 06, Mike rated it liked it. Faces of the Gone is a nice easy read that doesn't take itself too seriously. We are dealing with a reporter and not a retired Special Forces, troubled background, stone killer, yadda yadda Jan 18, Mary rated it really liked it. A great addition to the list of authors who write thrillers about New Jersey -- this one is set in Newark.

Thanks to Joanne H for putting me on to this guy. This is his debut novel and I look forward to reading more from him. Anyone who enjoys Harlan Coben, David Rosenfelt or Linwood Barclay three great thriller authors will probably enjoy this book as well! Nov 25, Suzanne rated it it was amazing Shelves: It's a good thing I didn't have to work today. I started this book and stayed up late to polish the whole thing off in one sitting! Great characters and great mystery! And definitely some humor - view spoiler [I almost peed in my pants from laughing at the chapter where Carter gets high when talking to the Brown gang!

May 27, Diane Vallere rated it it was amazing. Brad Parks played fast and loose with one particular story line, but I was happy to see it all came to resolution at the very very end. What's not to love about this series? May 03, Barbara rated it really liked it.

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In this story, Carter Ross is an investigative reporter looking into the bizarre murder of 4 drug dealers. The book has interesting characters, a good story, plenty of humor, and not too much romance which is how I like it. Apr 11, Patty rated it did not like it Shelves: May 15, Mich rated it liked it. Apr 14, Angie crosby rated it did not like it Shelves: This book failed to interest me at all.

I didn't finish reading it. Nov 21, Emily rated it did not like it. Got most of the way through, but I didn't have it in me to finish. Mar 14, Hapzydeco rated it liked it. Borrowing from Janet Evanovich, Brad Park walks the line between being funny and deadly serious. In Carter Ross, Park has created a likable protagonist. There are no discussion topics on this book yet.

Videos About This Book. International bestseller author Brad Parks is the only writer to have won the Shamus, Nero, and Lefty Awards, three of American crime fiction's most prestigious prizes. His books have earned starred reviews from every major pre-publication journal. A father of two and a husband of one, Brad lives in Virginia, where he spends four hours a day at his local Hardee's, writing his novels. When not at H International bestseller author Brad Parks is the only writer to have won the Shamus, Nero, and Lefty Awards, three of American crime fiction's most prestigious prizes.

When not at Hardee's, he's a slow runner and an even slower swimmer who enjoys long walks in his head. He's grateful for his readers, because otherwise he'd just be a guy who has a lot of conversations with himself and nowhere to put them.