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First Frost (Mythos Academy 0.5)
by
Jennifer Estep (Goodreads Author)
I am Gwen Frost, and I have a Gypsy gift. It's called psychometry - that's a fancy way of saying that I see images in my head and get flashes of other people's memories off almost everything I touch, even guys.
My gift makes me kind of nosy. Okay, okay, maybe a lot nosy--to the point of obsession sometimes. I want to know everything about everyone around me. But even I don
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Published
July 1st 2011
by Kensington Publishing Corporation
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So many screwups in so few pages.
ALERT: I'm in a ranting mode, and so I'm going to rant. A lot.
And that is the first major mistake: hindsights. Too many of them (read: more than zero).
Hindsights are not allowed.
And here we go with the second huge mistake:
ALERT: I'm in a ranting mode, and so I'm going to rant. A lot.
My mom sounded tired, so I decided not to bother her tonight.
“Love you, too,” I said, and hung up.
I didn’t know then that this would be the last time I ever talked to her.
And that is the first major mistake: hindsights. Too many of them (read: more than zero).
Hindsights are not allowed.
And here we go with the second huge mistake:
I’d already swapped my gym clothes for my usual sneakers and jeans. I’d al...more
My dear god, I should have known this would end up as a rant. Even though First Frost is barely an hour's read, it left me sputtering and muttering for three times as long. My fingers are sore of making annotations on my Kindle. Behold, my opinion of this little piece of work.
Ms Estep is writing in dangerous territory. Writing about a school for special kids with magical powers is tricky business; it automatically reminds of other successful YA-series that follow this formula. Series like Harry...more
Ms Estep is writing in dangerous territory. Writing about a school for special kids with magical powers is tricky business; it automatically reminds of other successful YA-series that follow this formula. Series like Harry...more
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Another amazing prequel. I can't wait to start reading Touch of Frost.
Ok, this is the story of Gwen before she enrolled in Mythos Academy. Gwen is a gypsy, though she doesn't know why, which is kind of weird but anyways...she is a gypsy with a gift to see memories and feelings that are attached to an object or even a person. One day she finds out a terrible secret by touching the hairbrush of another girl and her story begins. After a few weeks she is told that, by fall she will have to leave he...more
Ok, this is the story of Gwen before she enrolled in Mythos Academy. Gwen is a gypsy, though she doesn't know why, which is kind of weird but anyways...she is a gypsy with a gift to see memories and feelings that are attached to an object or even a person. One day she finds out a terrible secret by touching the hairbrush of another girl and her story begins. After a few weeks she is told that, by fall she will have to leave he...more
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Extremely short but intruiging!
Let me first say that I have NOT read the Mythos Academy Books yet - I bought the Mythos Academy Bundle, which includes "First Frost", "Touch of Frost", "Kiss of Frost" and "Dark Frost", and I'm going to read them in this order. So I do not know yet if this short story contains spoilers, foreshadowing etc. for the main books.
In "First Frost", we meet our heroine Gwen, a teenaged girl with an unusual gift: when she touches things that o...more
Extremely short but intruiging!
Let me first say that I have NOT read the Mythos Academy Books yet - I bought the Mythos Academy Bundle, which includes "First Frost", "Touch of Frost", "Kiss of Frost" and "Dark Frost", and I'm going to read them in this order. So I do not know yet if this short story contains spoilers, foreshadowing etc. for the main books.
In "First Frost", we meet our heroine Gwen, a teenaged girl with an unusual gift: when she touches things that o...more
This novella is so stupid and useless. I spent 30 mins of my life for this worthless piece of junk.
If you've read the first book or the rest of them, don't waste your time trying to read this because seriously it's nothing but all the same crap the author writes about.
This is just the story about the time Gwen picking up that hairbrush and discovering that one of her classmate is being sexually abused by her step dad. Her mother, who is a cop, died because of a "car accident" while working on...more
If you've read the first book or the rest of them, don't waste your time trying to read this because seriously it's nothing but all the same crap the author writes about.
This is just the story about the time Gwen picking up that hairbrush and discovering that one of her classmate is being sexually abused by her step dad. Her mother, who is a cop, died because of a "car accident" while working on...more
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Here’s another series which has received a lot of hype, so I decided to start with this novella as an introduction to the series to see if I might enjoy it…aaaaand, it’s a yes and no. Let me start with the “yes”. One of the reasons I would read it is because I have a fondness for stories with a boarding school / academy setting. Another reason would be because the series sounds as though it might contain elements or characters from Greek mythology – which I can never get enough of anyway. Those...more
Gwen Frost is your average teenage girl going to high school. Accept she has a gift hand down from a gypsy ancestor, psychometry. She can see a persons memories by touching them or objects they have touched. She is not the only one with the gift both her mom and grandmother have versions of the same gift.
One day after gym class Gwen touches her friend Paige's hair brush and is horrified by the images she sees of Paige suffering from horrible abuse. After telling her mom, a police officer, Paige...more
One day after gym class Gwen touches her friend Paige's hair brush and is horrified by the images she sees of Paige suffering from horrible abuse. After telling her mom, a police officer, Paige...more
This has been sitting on my kindle for a while now, and since I was going to begin this series I thought that I would start with this. I am glad that I did. I guess that I would have been fine without reading it, but there is something about reading events as they happen and not as a reflection or memory. I don’t know much about psychometry or gypsies, but I am definitely intrigued. I like Gwen immediately, and that may have to do with the fact that she really is kind of special. She’s nosey an...more
I am a huge fan of Jennifer Estep’s Elemental Assassin series but didn’t really know she wrote anything else.
The Mythos Academy series is about Gwen Frost, a gypsy who has the ability to see people’s memories after touching their personal items. After she suffers a personal loss she is sent to a school for kids with special gifts—and it is there that she realizes that she isn’t the only one who can do things that seem out of the ordinary.
I can say that I will continue the series, and have alread...more
The Mythos Academy series is about Gwen Frost, a gypsy who has the ability to see people’s memories after touching their personal items. After she suffers a personal loss she is sent to a school for kids with special gifts—and it is there that she realizes that she isn’t the only one who can do things that seem out of the ordinary.
I can say that I will continue the series, and have alread...more
Dieses kleine Schmankerl ist dazu geschaffen den Lesern die Romane der Mythos Academy schmackhaft zu machen. Den Mund wässrig zu machen. Bei mir hat es definitiv geklappt!
Gwen Frost ist kein normaler Teenager. Sie, ihre Mutter und ihre Großmutter besitzen jede eine individuelle Gypsy-Gabe. Gwen kann durch Berührung von Gegenständen Dinge Erfahren, die niemand anders sehen würde und bisher war das auch kein Problem, denn so konnte sie als Finderin immerhin ihr Taschengeld aufbessern. Doch als sie...more
Gwen Frost ist kein normaler Teenager. Sie, ihre Mutter und ihre Großmutter besitzen jede eine individuelle Gypsy-Gabe. Gwen kann durch Berührung von Gegenständen Dinge Erfahren, die niemand anders sehen würde und bisher war das auch kein Problem, denn so konnte sie als Finderin immerhin ihr Taschengeld aufbessern. Doch als sie...more
I stared with "Touch of Frost" today and decided to read this short story first and it gives really good insight in what happened before the first book because that's just pretty short there. Can't wait to read more!
*** german review ***
Gwen Frost hat eine Gabe: sobald sie Personen oder Dinge berührt, fängt sie Gefühle und Bilder auf. Das kann zwar recht hilfreich sein, aber auch sehr anstrengend, vor allem, weil man dadurch kaum normal leben kann. Als Gwen die Haarbrüste einer Mitschülerin berü...more
*** german review ***
Gwen Frost hat eine Gabe: sobald sie Personen oder Dinge berührt, fängt sie Gefühle und Bilder auf. Das kann zwar recht hilfreich sein, aber auch sehr anstrengend, vor allem, weil man dadurch kaum normal leben kann. Als Gwen die Haarbrüste einer Mitschülerin berü...more
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I had several gripes with this story (which read like a prologue for Touch of Frost that was cut out after someone (maybe her editor?) insisted the book sho...more
Dear Ms. Estep,That should tell you everything about this "short story". I love Ms. Estep's Elemental Assassin series, so I decided to give her new YA books a chance. Ms. Estep can write. It's just that her world-building here leaves a lot to be desired.
You cannot write a prologue and call it a short story. No, you really can't.
I had several gripes with this story (which read like a prologue for Touch of Frost that was cut out after someone (maybe her editor?) insisted the book sho...more
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This is a short prequel to the Mythos Academy series. It will help readers to get a better understanding before reading the first book, Touch of Frost. Gwen Frost is a Gypsy who has the gift of psychometry. She is neither a freak nor a normal teenager. FYI, Her mother and grandmother have the same gift as well, but more powerful. Her grandma get visions and her mother knows whenever someone tell lies. Ad she use her gift to help the police. However, Gwen e...more
This is a short prequel to the Mythos Academy series. It will help readers to get a better understanding before reading the first book, Touch of Frost. Gwen Frost is a Gypsy who has the gift of psychometry. She is neither a freak nor a normal teenager. FYI, Her mother and grandmother have the same gift as well, but more powerful. Her grandma get visions and her mother knows whenever someone tell lies. Ad she use her gift to help the police. However, Gwen e...more
This was the first book I read on my Kindle last weekend. I loved how fast it read. Gwen Frost reminds me a lot of Gin from the Elemental Assassins series. It seemed like it might be same world just featuring someone else, but I could be wrong. I really wanted to read this over the summer when it was published, but better late than never and now I think the second book in the Mythos Academy Series will be out soon so it is almost better, I won't have enough time to forget details before starting...more
Gwendolyn Frost is your normal average awkward teenager. Resigned to the fringes of the popular factions, being more a sweatshirt and comics than sling backs and coach kind of girl. Maybe her tastes in outside appearance is a nod to her difference. Gwen has a Gypsy gift of psychometry, she is able to touch something enabling her to see glimpses and feel emotions of the people who have come into contact with it.
First Frost is set about six months prior Touch of Frost and, details the events lead...more
First Frost is set about six months prior Touch of Frost and, details the events lead...more
First Frost is like a book that takes place before book one of the Mythos Academy series. Since I never heard of anything like there being a o.5 book I decided to check it out and for the price it wasn't that bad.
First Frost is about this girl named Gwen Frost who is a Gypsy and has the power to get certain vibes and images in her head from touching objects and people. She uses this power to her advatage by making a job out of it which she finds lost things for kids in her school for money. One...more
First Frost is about this girl named Gwen Frost who is a Gypsy and has the power to get certain vibes and images in her head from touching objects and people. She uses this power to her advatage by making a job out of it which she finds lost things for kids in her school for money. One...more
I downloaded this because I was interested in the first book that is soon to be released. It sounds interesting and has a lot of the elements I enjoy: magic, mythology incorporation, and boarding schools (blame harry potter). However I was seriously disappointed in this. First off I felt that it should have been longer, it only took 30 minutes max for me to get through this. Somethings were extremely rushed and I still didn't care when it was over. I think this would have been a lot better if it...more
This is a quick short story prequel for Jennifer Estep's new series Mythos Academy. I was immediately drawn in from the first pages. The novella follows a Gypsy girl named Gwen who has the magical gift of psychometry; the ability to see images by touching objects. In the opening pages Gwen touches the hairbrush of her classmate and discovers a horrible secret. From here things take a dramatic turn for Gwen. I will skip over the events that change Gwen's life forever to avoid spoilers...Gwen then...more
First Frost is the prequel to the series.
In this book we learned about Gwen Frost, a teenager but also a "Gypsy" who has the gift of psychometry. When she touches things she can tell what emotions the owner had while holding the instrument. It is much stronger when she touches a person. She uses this ability in high school to earn some extra money finding things for classmates. At times psycometry has been a downer, like when she found out her new boyfriend was kissing her but thinking of anothe...more
In this book we learned about Gwen Frost, a teenager but also a "Gypsy" who has the gift of psychometry. When she touches things she can tell what emotions the owner had while holding the instrument. It is much stronger when she touches a person. She uses this ability in high school to earn some extra money finding things for classmates. At times psycometry has been a downer, like when she found out her new boyfriend was kissing her but thinking of anothe...more
I want to warn you that this a very long, very ranty review which I wrote in a very reactive way to what I was reading, complete with me losing my train of thought and grammatical and punctuation errors. If you actually read the whole thing, I’ll be shocked. If you do read the whole review and you get mad at me for my opinions, I won’t be shocked any more. I’ll just shrug and say, “Well, I sure do hope you enjoyed this short story more than I did” and quietly stop paying attention.
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I first became acquainted with the writing of Jennifer Estep through her Elemental Assassin series. I just love the way she writes. However, I must say, that I am a little dissapointed so far with what I have read of the Mythos Academy.
The story begins when the main character, Gwen Frost realizes that a girl she knows, Paige is keeping a secret. She admits she is nosey and this is no exception, she wants to know just what this secret is. She picks up the Paige's hairbrush and that is when Gwen s...more
The story begins when the main character, Gwen Frost realizes that a girl she knows, Paige is keeping a secret. She admits she is nosey and this is no exception, she wants to know just what this secret is. She picks up the Paige's hairbrush and that is when Gwen s...more
I have read all of Estep's Elemental Assassin series and was excited to hear she was starting the young adult Mythos Academy series. The first full length book in this series is, Touch of Frost, and will be released July 26th. This short story was a good intro to the series and really set things up nicely.
Gwen Frost is a girl with Gypsy magic that goes to a normal high school. When her Gypsy magic inadvertently causes catastrophe to strike her life she finds herself at Mythos Academy; a magical...more
Nachdem ich bereits den ersten Band "Frostkuss" der "Mythos Academy" gelesen habe, musste ich selbstverständlich auch die Vorgeschichte zu "Frostkuss" lesen. Und wie Band 1 konnte mich auch diese Kurzgeschichte begeistern.
Auch wenn dies die Vorgeschichte ist, sollte man "Frostkuss" unbedingt zuerst lesen und erst danach die Kurzgeschichte, da man sonst bereits zu viel über Gwen und die Academy erfahren würde. Als Ergänzung ist "First Frost" jedoch eine gute Sache.
Der Schreibstil hat mir wieder e...more
Auch wenn dies die Vorgeschichte ist, sollte man "Frostkuss" unbedingt zuerst lesen und erst danach die Kurzgeschichte, da man sonst bereits zu viel über Gwen und die Academy erfahren würde. Als Ergänzung ist "First Frost" jedoch eine gute Sache.
Der Schreibstil hat mir wieder e...more
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Wow! Never before has a short prequel left me wanting more as badly as this one did. This is the first book I have read by Jennifer Estep and I was completely blown away by it.
Gwen has a gift, she can tell people's secrets by touching them or things that belong to them. Cool huh? Not always. When she sees something terrible and freaks out she gets sent to a new boarding school - Mythos Academy. But Mythos Academy is no ordinary boarding school, it is school for child...more
Wow! Never before has a short prequel left me wanting more as badly as this one did. This is the first book I have read by Jennifer Estep and I was completely blown away by it.
Gwen has a gift, she can tell people's secrets by touching them or things that belong to them. Cool huh? Not always. When she sees something terrible and freaks out she gets sent to a new boarding school - Mythos Academy. But Mythos Academy is no ordinary boarding school, it is school for child...more
Gwen Frost is an interesting young character. She is a Gypsy with a gift of psychometry. In this book, a classmate's secret is revealed after Gwen touches her hairbrush. This leads to a tragedy and a new beginning. I want to learn more about her gift, why her family has been secretive about her Gypsy status, and how she will fit in at Mythos Academy - a school for kid (ages 16 to 21) with magic, like Valkyries, Vikings, Romans, Spartans, and Amazons. The way Gwen spoke made her sound younger as...more
When I checked the First Frost ebook out, I didn't realize it was just a mini-prequel to the full Mythos Academy series. So the real test is whether the writing and story are compelling enough to make me jump into the story in earnest. My overall reaction is a shrug and a "meh".
Gwen Frost is gifted with psychometry, the ability pick up on people's memories and experiences by touching objects they have touched. It's referred to as a "Gypsy gift", but I was unclear on whether this meant she was s...more
Gwen Frost is gifted with psychometry, the ability pick up on people's memories and experiences by touching objects they have touched. It's referred to as a "Gypsy gift", but I was unclear on whether this meant she was s...more
Have you been following the Mythos Academy series by Jennifer Estep ,author of the popular series Elemental Assassin ? If you have been reading my reviews, you would know that I have and have read Books#1 - 3 and now of course the prequel Book #0.5 . Personally for me , I think that if you haven't read the series then this is a great book to start you as I felt a bit disappointed reading this last as throughout Books #1-3 her mother's death and what happened prior Gwen attending Mythos academy p...more
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3.5 stars - This is a prequel to Mythos Academy. The reader is introduced to Gwen and her magic. This is about how Gwen has come to Mythos Academy and how her talent works. This is just an introduction. We don't get to know the characters yet and we only get a taste of the world.
As far as intros go, this was good. It left me wanting to read more.
*UPDATE* This is not a necessary read if you are planning on reading the Mythos Academy Series. Chapter 2 of Touch of Frost (Book 1) does a nice cliff...more
As far as intros go, this was good. It left me wanting to read more.
*UPDATE* This is not a necessary read if you are planning on reading the Mythos Academy Series. Chapter 2 of Touch of Frost (Book 1) does a nice cliff...more
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Jennifer Estep is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, prowling the streets of her imagination in search of her next fantasy idea.
Jennifer writes the Elemental Assassin adult urban fantasy series for Pocket. Books in the series are SPIDER'S BITE, WEB OF LIES, VENOM, TANGLED THREADS, SPIDER'S REVENGE, BY A THREAD, and WIDOW'S WEB. THREAD OF DEATH, an e-novella, is also available.
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Jennifer writes the Elemental Assassin adult urban fantasy series for Pocket. Books in the series are SPIDER'S BITE, WEB OF LIES, VENOM, TANGLED THREADS, SPIDER'S REVENGE, BY A THREAD, and WIDOW'S WEB. THREAD OF DEATH, an e-novella, is also available.
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