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Book Review: Transformation: The Winters Family Psi Chronicles Book 1 by John O'Riley

TransformationI haven't read many paranormal/fantasy books lately--but, Transformation, the first book in The Winters Family Psi Chronicles by John O'Riley caught my interest. What is my review of Transformation by John O'Riley?

I received a complimentary copy of this ebook for use in my review.  all opinions are my own.

Quick Summary of Transformation:  The Winters Family Psi Chronicles Book 1.  Emily Winters was kidnapped as a teenager by Psi-Tech, a corrupt and power-hungry corporation that learned of her precognitive ability. Imprisoned for years and forced to use her talent to help a company thrive, she now reaches a point where she must escape or die. A natural disaster will cause chaos, death, and destruction throughout the entire world while transforming most of the survivors into psychics. After this happens, Psi-Tech will kill all of their prisoners to hide the evidence of their horrific crimes. Knowing how the disaster will affect her captors gives Emily one slim chance to escape. She must seize this opportunity to save not only herself but her brother as well who will die without a medical treatment that doesn’t yet exist.

Transformation is an action packed, paranormal tale with strong characters.  The author jumped right into the storyline within a few pages and kept the momentum rolling throughout the book.  O'Riley's characters were strong, well developed and interacted well to create a well rounded book.  There were times when it seemed that the action was beyond the characters' abilities--but, never so far beyond that the characters could not rise (believably) to the challenges facing them.


Would I recommend Transformation by John O'Riley? Transformation is a great first book for the series. Readers are left with just enough loose ends and character attachment to encourage them to move on to the next book in the Winters Family Psi Chronicles Series.  This is the first book that I have read from this author--and I like his writing style and would look forward to other books from this series, but, would also like to read some of his other work as well.


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 Author Bio for John O’Riley:

John for NPWAJohn O'Riley has been writing as far back as he can remember. He is an author of novels and an award winning writer of screenplays in the category of urban fantasy, comedy, science fiction and young adult. His movie feature screenplay, Cursed, is an Honorable Mention Winner for the 2012 Screenplay Festival. His most recent accomplishments include the screenplays New Earth, Pinky Swear, and Mutant Wizards in the 2014 Filmmakers International Screenplay Awards which made it to Quarter-Finalist status. Other recognition includes the screenplays Cursed, Project Pandora, Pinky Swear, Incipio, and Bad Sister which have been listed as Quarter Finalists, Semi Finalists, and Top Finalists in the 2013 Filmmakers International Screenplay Awards, 2012 Screenplay Festival, 2012 Filmmakers International Screenplay Awards, 2012 StoryPros International Awards, 2012 Pulsar Sci Fi Screenplay Contest, and the 2012 Reel Authors International Breakout.

He was born in California then raised in Washington state. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Spanish and French and worked in a variety of bookstores including Borders and was the manager for one of the bookstores in Florida that was actually owned by Goodwill. He loves reading fantasy, science fiction, and humorous fiction. Some of his favorite authors include Kim Harrison, Jim Butcher, S.J. Viehl, Kat Richardson, J.K. Rowling, Angie Sage, Jayne Krentz, and Janet Evanovich. He currently resides in Washington state and owns a parakeet named Amy who sings like a canary to help encourage and inspire him.

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  1. Thank you, Angela, for reading the book and leaving the review for Transformation! I appreciate it.

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