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Rippler (Ripple #1)
by
Cidney Swanson (Goodreads Author)
Samantha Ruiz has a freak gene that makes her turn invisible, or ripple. She can’t control it, and it’s getting worse. Afraid of becoming a lab-rat, Sam keeps her ability secret, until fellow runner Will Baker sees her vanish into thin air. Will promises secrecy and help, and Sam begins to fall in love.
Together, the two discover there are worse things than being a scientif...more
Together, the two discover there are worse things than being a scientif...more
Kindle Edition, 288 pages
Published
June 15th 2011
by Williams Press
(first published May 26th 2011)
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Mar 11, 2012
Nicola
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Rippler has been sitting in my Kindle for months now, waiting patiently for me to get around to reading it. Well, I can say now that I am kicking myself for not reading it back in December. Honestly, what was I thinking? This book was amazing and my only regret is that I didn't read it sooner! Rippler easily earned a spot on my favourites lists; I was just so impressed with this one.
The ideas behind Rippler were fascinating and I loved everything about it. Samantha, AKA Sam, is able to turn invi...more
The ideas behind Rippler were fascinating and I loved everything about it. Samantha, AKA Sam, is able to turn invi...more
The screaming was the first clue that I'd turned invisible again.
When we're first introduced to our heroine Samantha 'Sam' Ruiz, she has just involuntarily vanished in the middle of a rafting trip. Luckily, no one actually saw this. Well, no one but her new friend Will who, as it turns out, knows exactly what just happened.
Now, I think we've all bemoaned the lack of forthright male characters in YA fiction a time or twoor twenty. Maybe that explains why, to begin with, this book felt a little...more
When we're first introduced to our heroine Samantha 'Sam' Ruiz, she has just involuntarily vanished in the middle of a rafting trip. Luckily, no one actually saw this. Well, no one but her new friend Will who, as it turns out, knows exactly what just happened.
Now, I think we've all bemoaned the lack of forthright male characters in YA fiction a time or two
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3.5 stars
Rippler is a unique fantasy tale told through the eyes of Samantha Ruiz - the girl who can ripple. Cidney Sawnson creates a readable YA mystery, while adding a delicate helping of romance and historical fiction, and then ultimately creating the perfect blend to keep me intrigued and satisfied. I can safely say I enjoyed this book, perhaps not enough to call it one of my favorites, but enough for me to think it deserves some attention.
The idea of rippling was one of the main aspects of t...more
Rippler is a unique fantasy tale told through the eyes of Samantha Ruiz - the girl who can ripple. Cidney Sawnson creates a readable YA mystery, while adding a delicate helping of romance and historical fiction, and then ultimately creating the perfect blend to keep me intrigued and satisfied. I can safely say I enjoyed this book, perhaps not enough to call it one of my favorites, but enough for me to think it deserves some attention.
The idea of rippling was one of the main aspects of t...more
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May 19, 2013
Anna (Gatsby's Girl)
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Fifteen year old Sam has always been soothed and comforted by water since her earliest memories. That turns out not to be such a good thing when she turns invisible on her cross-country team's canoe trip - while she's in the canoe with the other kids. This starts off an odyssey of learning why she is able to turn invisible and what it means for her future happiness and safety. The person to take the journey with her is her neighbor Will Baker who happened to see her vanish from the canoe and cov...more
'Rippler' was such an incredible story! I was able to read this book very quickly. This is the first fantasy novel that I have ever read and I didn't realize until I read this book, how entertaining fantasy novels can be. I will definitely be reading more of them in the future.
Sam Ruiz just learned that she is a Rippler, a person who can become invisible, and she learns that someone wants her, and all others like her, dead. This made the story very suspenseful, but the story also had it's light-...more
Sam Ruiz just learned that she is a Rippler, a person who can become invisible, and she learns that someone wants her, and all others like her, dead. This made the story very suspenseful, but the story also had it's light-...more
Originally Reviewed At:Mother/Gamer/Writer
Rating: 5 out of 5 Controllers
Review Source: Author for Honest Review
Reviewer: AimeeKay
Loved this one! Swanson did an amazing job on the beginning of this series. I was drawn in from the very beginning and couldn’t wait to see how the author chose to reveal her stories secrets. She’s placed her “ripplers” into present day and the more I find out about them, the more I want to know.
I loved the characters, especially Sam. Sam is smart, and sure of herself....more
Rating: 5 out of 5 Controllers
Review Source: Author for Honest Review
Reviewer: AimeeKay
Loved this one! Swanson did an amazing job on the beginning of this series. I was drawn in from the very beginning and couldn’t wait to see how the author chose to reveal her stories secrets. She’s placed her “ripplers” into present day and the more I find out about them, the more I want to know.
I loved the characters, especially Sam. Sam is smart, and sure of herself....more
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Reviewed by Heather
Samantha has had a problem since her mom died. For some reason, she can turn invisible. She can’t control when it happens or where and the problem is only getting worse.
When Sam’s friend, Will, witnesses one of her periods of invisibility she wonders how she will explain it to him. But she doesn’t have to. Will already knows of the ability and even has a name for it… Sam is a rippler. Sam later finds out that Will is also a Rippler.
Together, with Will’s sister, the two discove...more
Samantha has had a problem since her mom died. For some reason, she can turn invisible. She can’t control when it happens or where and the problem is only getting worse.
When Sam’s friend, Will, witnesses one of her periods of invisibility she wonders how she will explain it to him. But she doesn’t have to. Will already knows of the ability and even has a name for it… Sam is a rippler. Sam later finds out that Will is also a Rippler.
Together, with Will’s sister, the two discove...more
Note: I'm reviewing Rippler and the sequel Chameleon concurrently.
I got these two ebooks almost two months ago (I could make it sound longer by saying "last year"), but only started reading it about two or three days ago. And yet, I finished both books last night, that's how good they were. Currently, the Ripple Series consists of two books: Rippler and Chameleon. But for the sake of cohesiveness, I'm just going to talk about them as a whole.
The series revolves around Samantha, as she discovers...more
I got these two ebooks almost two months ago (I could make it sound longer by saying "last year"), but only started reading it about two or three days ago. And yet, I finished both books last night, that's how good they were. Currently, the Ripple Series consists of two books: Rippler and Chameleon. But for the sake of cohesiveness, I'm just going to talk about them as a whole.
The series revolves around Samantha, as she discovers...more
Book Title: Rippler (Book one of the Ripple Series)
Author: Cidney Swanson
Published By: Williams Press
Genre: Supernatural Young Adult
Recommended Age:
Reviewed By: Emily Tuley / AngelsCryHavoc
Blog Reviewed For: Great Minds Think Aloud Literary Community
Rating: 5 Ravens
Starting this book was a real treat, I received it over the holidays and had the time to actually sit down and read not only this one but the sequel so that I wasn’t left to long hungering for more. The author really took her time wi...more
Author: Cidney Swanson
Published By: Williams Press
Genre: Supernatural Young Adult
Recommended Age:
Reviewed By: Emily Tuley / AngelsCryHavoc
Blog Reviewed For: Great Minds Think Aloud Literary Community
Rating: 5 Ravens
Starting this book was a real treat, I received it over the holidays and had the time to actually sit down and read not only this one but the sequel so that I wasn’t left to long hungering for more. The author really took her time wi...more
You can read the full review on my blog here: http://teacherwritebookaholicohmy.blo...
I'll just tell you straight up: If this book was in paperback, I would have read it in two days.
I think we can end to review right there, huh, lol?
I really fell in love with this book, the author and the story line.
I had a few issues with it, as with most people, but they were really minor. Like her repeating guffawed alot and Phhst with certain characters. I think there were certain awkward phrases in there,...more
I'll just tell you straight up: If this book was in paperback, I would have read it in two days.
I think we can end to review right there, huh, lol?
I really fell in love with this book, the author and the story line.
I had a few issues with it, as with most people, but they were really minor. Like her repeating guffawed alot and Phhst with certain characters. I think there were certain awkward phrases in there,...more
Love the cover. It looks beautiful with the girl's dress blown by the wind on the cliff, and the breathtaking view of the sea. I believe it fits perfectly with the whole Rippler concept, and how the soothing sound of the water calms Samantha Ruiz, allowing her to ripple or become invisible.
On to the story, Samantha found out she was able to disappear from the moment her mother and best friend died in a car crash, and has been afraid somebody would find out about her abnormality. Keeping this a s...more
On to the story, Samantha found out she was able to disappear from the moment her mother and best friend died in a car crash, and has been afraid somebody would find out about her abnormality. Keeping this a s...more
Right from the first line this book grabs you and draws you in. It has something for everyone. It has a little bit of history, a mystery, some paranormal elements, realism. What is there not to like about it so far?
Samantha Ruiz, (Sam) is a typical teenager. She is on a rafting trip with her cross-country team when something strange happens to her. She disappears. Everyone believes she has fallen into the water. That is everyone except teammate Will. He helps her. This rippling, has happened to...more
Samantha Ruiz, (Sam) is a typical teenager. She is on a rafting trip with her cross-country team when something strange happens to her. She disappears. Everyone believes she has fallen into the water. That is everyone except teammate Will. He helps her. This rippling, has happened to...more
Reviewed by Valerie
Ebook won on LibraryThing
Teens not sure of what’s going on? Check. Genetic mutations? Check. Historical mystery to thicken the plot? Check. This book started slow but once it picked up I was hooked!
Samantha has “rippled” a couple of times but has no clue what it means or if she’s losing her mind. Who can just turn invisible? No one she knows so she must be going crazy. Then, she ripples while out on the water and a boy name Will sees and knows what’s happening to her...
As Will...more
Ebook won on LibraryThing
Teens not sure of what’s going on? Check. Genetic mutations? Check. Historical mystery to thicken the plot? Check. This book started slow but once it picked up I was hooked!
Samantha has “rippled” a couple of times but has no clue what it means or if she’s losing her mind. Who can just turn invisible? No one she knows so she must be going crazy. Then, she ripples while out on the water and a boy name Will sees and knows what’s happening to her...
As Will...more
Sep 26, 2011
Quincidence
rated it
5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Young Adult, ladies,
Recommended to Quincidence by:
Librarything, Cidney Swanson
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E-Book Format
Sensational! Beautifully charged with emotions of love; of family and country, the loyalty to friends, family and self, survival, family, loyalty, and religion as well as a scoop of non-vanilla science.
I like the feeling of how a child must come to terms with her identity, her friendships, and her sense of inner peace. She learns the mundane about pizza making, finds a waterfall hiking trail, and learns the dynamics of a non-nuclear family. While the normal steps of a high school s...more
Sensational! Beautifully charged with emotions of love; of family and country, the loyalty to friends, family and self, survival, family, loyalty, and religion as well as a scoop of non-vanilla science.
I like the feeling of how a child must come to terms with her identity, her friendships, and her sense of inner peace. She learns the mundane about pizza making, finds a waterfall hiking trail, and learns the dynamics of a non-nuclear family. While the normal steps of a high school s...more
Title: Rippler
Author: Cidney Swanson
Genre: YA paranormal romance
Where I got it: E-book giveaway from LibraryThing
One sentence: Sam is just a regular girl with a mutation that causes her to ripple, or turn invisible, until fellow classmate Will sees her vanish and the two discover that someone has been killing people who possess Sam’s gene.
Themes: paranormal, romance, mystery,
Main character: 3.5/5
I really liked the character of Sam. She is portrayed as a normal teenage girl with a genetic disor...more
Author: Cidney Swanson
Genre: YA paranormal romance
Where I got it: E-book giveaway from LibraryThing
One sentence: Sam is just a regular girl with a mutation that causes her to ripple, or turn invisible, until fellow classmate Will sees her vanish and the two discover that someone has been killing people who possess Sam’s gene.
Themes: paranormal, romance, mystery,
Main character: 3.5/5
I really liked the character of Sam. She is portrayed as a normal teenage girl with a genetic disor...more
I wanted to like this book, I really did. It has an interesting idea behind it and I was really hopeful, even after the first few chapters being a little slow. But something held me back and I just didn't enjoy it as much I had hoped I would.
Sam is a typical teen with an interesting ability. I did like Swanson's ability to blend these two pieces in a way that was believable and made Sam into a very real person. She has to deal with the typical teen problems with friends, parents and relationship...more
Sam is a typical teen with an interesting ability. I did like Swanson's ability to blend these two pieces in a way that was believable and made Sam into a very real person. She has to deal with the typical teen problems with friends, parents and relationship...more
I came across this book on Amazon one day, although I have been steering away from YA books, I can’t help but read them when the describe draws me in. SO that is how I cam about reading Rippler.
Samantha Ruiz is a 15 year old girl who can turn invisible, I have our attention already, I can tell. Well Sammy doesn’t know she can do this until she is on a rafting trip with her cross country team. Lucky for her only one of her friends saw her do it, and for some reason he doesn’t seem fazed by it at...more
Samantha Ruiz is a 15 year old girl who can turn invisible, I have our attention already, I can tell. Well Sammy doesn’t know she can do this until she is on a rafting trip with her cross country team. Lucky for her only one of her friends saw her do it, and for some reason he doesn’t seem fazed by it at...more
Sam is nearly 16 and a keen member of her schools cross-country team. She's been alone and depressed in the past following the death of her mother and best friend in a drink related road traffic accident when she was seven. Recently though things have started to look up for her, an old childhood friend has returned to town, and she's become friends with Will, a boy on the cross-country team that she secretly has feelings for. Unfortunately that's when things start to go wrong again.
Whilst on a c...more
Whilst on a c...more
When I selected this book I was expecting a fun book about a girl who suddenly finds herself able to become invisible, and not quite sure how to control it. And at first that was what it delivered. It didn't take long into the story to expand on that in a rather interesting way. The way things are presented in this story keeps the requirement for suspension of disbelief at a bare minimum. You can almost believe this is really happening somewhere, and without going overboard with explanation the...more
Wowsers! This is what I call a game changer!
Rippler is unlike any other YA book I've read. The concept of the story is SO unique and creative, and I'm really excited to continue with this series to see what happens next. We've seen people who can turn invisible, but never has it been like this. Sam "ripples," or fades in and out of existence, and it's the result of a genetic disorder called Rippler's Syndrome, which is a strand of Helmann's. I think the whole "disease" concept makes it so intere...more
Rippler is unlike any other YA book I've read. The concept of the story is SO unique and creative, and I'm really excited to continue with this series to see what happens next. We've seen people who can turn invisible, but never has it been like this. Sam "ripples," or fades in and out of existence, and it's the result of a genetic disorder called Rippler's Syndrome, which is a strand of Helmann's. I think the whole "disease" concept makes it so intere...more
(My full Rippler review can be found at Agrippina Legit)
In a young adult market that's quickly filling with urban fantasy and paranormal titles, Rippler is refreshingly different. There are no fated romances, no improbably perfect characters and no nagging thoughts of having read it all before. Instead, Cidney Swanson has crafted an enjoyable story with likeable characters and an intriguing mystery that helps it stand apart from many other examples of the genre.
From the beginning of Rippler, I...more
In a young adult market that's quickly filling with urban fantasy and paranormal titles, Rippler is refreshingly different. There are no fated romances, no improbably perfect characters and no nagging thoughts of having read it all before. Instead, Cidney Swanson has crafted an enjoyable story with likeable characters and an intriguing mystery that helps it stand apart from many other examples of the genre.
From the beginning of Rippler, I...more
I forgot what it felt like to read a book set in a place you're familiar with; it's totally exciting! I definitely love the whole concept of the genetic disorder. I've never read anything like it before. I was skeptical about how the story would unfold at first because the first several lines didn't exactly interest me as much. But as I got more invested in the characters, the story unfolded surprisingly well. I thought it was pretty cool how the excerpts from the journal were inserted every now...more
First I want to say thank you to Cidney Sawnson,the author of the book, and to Kelli and Natalie,the bloggers from the I’d so rather be reading blog.I won on their blog an e-book copy of the first book from The Ripple Series.Now on the review.I love it.What I love about the book?The realationship between Sam and Will.Why?Because there’s no rush in it.And it’s sincere.What else I love about Rippler?The way that it was wrriten.I mean it has that thing that make’s you wanna hit somebody if they int...more
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This book was unexpectedly good. I read smoothly through it and didn't encounter too much typo typical of an e-book, especially with the free ones or the cheaper ones. It's rather short, but a very good introduction for the next book in the series, a really promising start.
Samantha can ripple-- turn invisible, that is. She finds a fellow rippler Will, and soon gets tangled up in serious danger as ruthless men continue to hunt and eliminate "ripplers" like them. Their problems escalate when bits...more
Samantha can ripple-- turn invisible, that is. She finds a fellow rippler Will, and soon gets tangled up in serious danger as ruthless men continue to hunt and eliminate "ripplers" like them. Their problems escalate when bits...more
(From my Wordpress blog- Word Vagabond: Supporting Independent and Small Press Authors. http://wordvagabond.wordpress.com )
Sam has an unusual talent- she can become invisible. The problem is she can’t control it, and it seems to be getting worse. When a boy from her class sees her disappear, he tells her that she has Rippler’s Syndome, a genetic condition that his sister has spent years studying. Now everyone who has done research into Rippler’s is being hunted down and killed. To make matters w...more
Sam has an unusual talent- she can become invisible. The problem is she can’t control it, and it seems to be getting worse. When a boy from her class sees her disappear, he tells her that she has Rippler’s Syndome, a genetic condition that his sister has spent years studying. Now everyone who has done research into Rippler’s is being hunted down and killed. To make matters w...more
Author:Cidney Swanson
Genre: YA/Supernatural
Type: Kindle ebook
First Published: May 2011
Series: 1st book in the Rippling series
Series Order: Rippler (May 2011), Chameleon (2011), Unfurl (Jan 2012)
First Line: "The screaming was the first clue that I'd turned invisible again. "
Synopsis: Samantha is a typical teenage girl ... except for her ability to become invisible and leave the physical world around her. She has only become invisible twice in her life (that she can recall) and unfortunately she h...more
Genre: YA/Supernatural
Type: Kindle ebook
First Published: May 2011
Series: 1st book in the Rippling series
Series Order: Rippler (May 2011), Chameleon (2011), Unfurl (Jan 2012)
First Line: "The screaming was the first clue that I'd turned invisible again. "
Synopsis: Samantha is a typical teenage girl ... except for her ability to become invisible and leave the physical world around her. She has only become invisible twice in her life (that she can recall) and unfortunately she h...more
Nov 22, 2011
Donna
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5 of 5 stars
Recommended to Donna by:
http://cidneyswanson.blogspot.com/p/events.html
To begin, the cover of this book is just stunning. I am always drawn to a book with a great cover.
The book itself does not disappoint. Imagine being able to make yourself invisible.
This book is a very quick, easy read written by an extremely talented debut novelist named Cidney Swanson. This is a combination of sci fi, romance and thriller, specifically genetic experimentations, the eugenics movement and Nazi's. Still following me? The Nazi experiments have long term consequences. Rippling, or...more
The book itself does not disappoint. Imagine being able to make yourself invisible.
This book is a very quick, easy read written by an extremely talented debut novelist named Cidney Swanson. This is a combination of sci fi, romance and thriller, specifically genetic experimentations, the eugenics movement and Nazi's. Still following me? The Nazi experiments have long term consequences. Rippling, or...more
The book starts at an amazing pace with one of the main characters disappearing and showing some of the effects of a condition that makes her invisible. A friend helps her through out her journey of finding out what her condition is, how she can control it, and what this will do to her. Her friend protects her and saves her secret. She later finds out that her friend has the same condition and they go into this journey of discovering themselves and researching for more information about it and w...more
Samantha (Sam) has a unique ability. She is a Rippler, meaning that she can turn invisible. Unfortunately she does not have very good control of this rare genetic disorder and it occurs at some very inopportune moments - like when she is rafting down the river and her team-mates fear that she has drowned. This is the least of her worries though, as evil scientists are searching for her and any others like her. As the pace quickens, she realizes that in addition to dealing with all this new infor...more
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