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The Telepath Trilogy #1
Surviving Telepathy
If their minds don't kill me... The perfect grad night kiss with the girl of my dreams. Then her ex- had to go and clock me. With the whole graduating class watching... I woke up in the hospital a week later - reading the thoughts of everyone around me. Now I can't stop. Secrets coming at me from everywhere. And every one of them from a mind I can reach out and bend. This power is going to kill me. But if it doesn't... ...I may become a monster. Surviving Telepathy, the first book in The Telepath Trilogy, puts a psychic twist on teenage problems and explores the blessing and curse of power. From Stefon Mears, author of the Rise of Magic series.
- GenresFiction
180 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 2013
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January 14, 2023
I have readed others books about teenagers dealing with telepathy and they were good. That made me believe that the combination of those two works always...big mistake.
The story in Surviving Telepathy is shallow with unrealistic characters.
The plot is: a teenage after taking a beating and going into coma develops telepathy. He starts having a hard time dealing with involuntary mind reading, but thanks to his friend, that conveniently to the plot and against his character is a meditation expert, manages to control his gift. Then he discovers he can control people minds too and goes for make an ethical code to be a good guy. The end!
Seriously: that is it. There were useless characters(what was the purpose of his maid?), pointless subplots and long descriptions for nothing(was really necessary to describe everything that he eats during the entire story?) but the worst was the story conclusion! A 17 years old boy, burning for his hot neighbour, enraged for a criminal beating that leaves him in a coma, when find he has mind controls powers goes imediatly to write a long and detailed law-like self-imposing ethical code to never abuse his powers for personal gain! Really!? That is what a 17 years old teenage boy would really do!?
So here we find a shallow plot, with a unrealistic would-be hero in development.
The story in Surviving Telepathy is shallow with unrealistic characters.
The plot is: a teenage after taking a beating and going into coma develops telepathy. He starts having a hard time dealing with involuntary mind reading, but thanks to his friend, that conveniently to the plot and against his character is a meditation expert, manages to control his gift. Then he discovers he can control people minds too and goes for make an ethical code to be a good guy. The end!
Seriously: that is it. There were useless characters(what was the purpose of his maid?), pointless subplots and long descriptions for nothing(was really necessary to describe everything that he eats during the entire story?) but the worst was the story conclusion! A 17 years old boy, burning for his hot neighbour, enraged for a criminal beating that leaves him in a coma, when find he has mind controls powers goes imediatly to write a long and detailed law-like self-imposing ethical code to never abuse his powers for personal gain! Really!? That is what a 17 years old teenage boy would really do!?
So here we find a shallow plot, with a unrealistic would-be hero in development.
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