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Imparting
Heather Letto
(Ascension #3)
Publication date: December 15th 2015
Genres: Young Adult, Dystopia

The clock is ticking.
Chan has been chosen to deliver the good news and healing antidote… If his body doesn’t reject the antibodies.
Pete, who has been imprisoned and tortured by the Council, has been selected by Retter to be ambassador to the residents. But, does he possess the authority needed to persuade an entire city of skeptics?
And, while in the Open Air, Fran struggles with her own failures questioning whether she’ll always be an outcast living on the fringe of society.
In this final installment of The Ascension Series, love, sacrifice, and forgiveness go head to head with evil in an effort to save a city.
And a girl.

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EXCERPT:

She smiled.

Although she couldn’t kill an inanimate object, Fran knew she could easily take out a small lens. She glanced around, hoping to distinguish the Graphie in front her from his life-giving light source. Because of the darkened backdrop, for the first time, Fran was easily able to follow one of his beams to a nearby potted palm. She hurried to the plant and squatted low, feeling around for anything plastic or metal. Her fingers lit under a green-tinged beam, and she moved her hand along the surface. When she felt the nub, Fran smiled and stood. With the toe of her hard boot, she kicked the lens until she felt it shatter. Fran shot a glance over her shoulder to check on the guard, thrilled to see he had taken on a strange, two-dimensional shape. She scanned the area for another beam.
The gaming board.
Fran hurried to the board and ran her hand along the pole that it sat upon. With her arm fully extended overhead, she felt the nub. Too high to kick. She looked around for something to hit it with when an idea struck her. After running back to the plant, she grabbed a handful of glass stones from the pot and pulled the sling from her side. Load, swing, and release.
Although Fran couldn’t hear the whistle of the stone over the Agora’s white noise, the undeniable crack of the lens reached her ears as bits of plastic flew from the pole. She whipped around to face the Graphie again, but now only a single red beam of light pulsed where he had stood. She followed the red beam to the leg of a nearby bench and laughed out loud as she wound up and launched her stone. The last ray died out and as the area darkened, Fran could hear a chatter rise from the small crowd of residents now released from the Graphie’s hold.

Author Bio:
Heather Letto was born in the hills of Ohio and raised in the 'burbs of Chicago yet fancies herself a stranger in a stranger world. She wears her creativity like a second skin and is immensely grateful to her heavenly Father who gives good gifts. Her debut novel, Impervious, is the first book of The Ascension series, a trilogy written for young adults.

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Imparting by Heather Letto

Imparting
Heather Letto
(Ascension #3)
Publication date: December 15th 2015
Genres: Dystopia, Young Adult

The clock is ticking.
Chan has been chosen to deliver the good news and healing antidote… If his body doesn’t reject the antibodies.
Pete, who has been imprisoned and tortured by the Council, has been selected by Retter to be ambassador to the residents. But, does he possess the authority needed to persuade an entire city of skeptics?
And, while in the Open Air, Fran struggles with her own failures questioning whether she’ll always be an outcast living on the fringe of society.
In this final installment of The Ascension Series, love, sacrifice, and forgiveness go head to head with evil in an effort to save a city.
And a girl.

Previous books in the series:

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Author Bio:
Heather Letto was born in the hills of Ohio and raised in the 'burbs of Chicago yet fancies herself a stranger in a stranger world. She wears her creativity like a second skin and is immensely grateful to her heavenly Father who gives good gifts. Her debut novel, Impervious, is the first book of The Ascension series, a trilogy written for young adults.

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Review: Implanted by Heather Letto

IMPLANTED

The Ascension Series Book Two

by Heather Letto

YA Dystopian

168 pages

After a narrow escape from the city of Impervious, Fran’s heart aches for the ones she left behind. Will her brother ever connect the dots? And, what about Pete? Could he, along with the remaining Rebels, have survived the Council’s violent oppression?

As Fran ponders the fate of her friends, an even more disturbing revelation drops into her world—the knowledge that she, along with anyone who had lived underground remains implanted with the sinister presence of the Council. A fate rendering her powerless to save.

Yet one with pure blood, untouched by the Council’s defiling, lives among them. Could he be the new lifeline of hope? Is salvation of the city worth risking the life of this one-and-only?

MY TIDBITS

This is the second book in a series, but since I didn't read the first one, I started with the missing background information. And that did make a difference. The first pages rush through several names, and without the story up to that point, the importance of these characters was unclear. It wasn't too hard to get a general handle on what was going on, so in that respect, I could gain some footing. Still, I'd recommend hitting the first book before diving into this one.

We find 'Wolf' (the young girl) one week after her escape from the underground, controlled society. She's getting to know her parents and adapting very well to her new found freedom in nature and the 'outside'. These first pages were slow, letting Wolf suck in the new world around her. If I had read the first book and taken this one up directly afterwards, I'm sure it would have had a different effect. On it's own, it was slow moving, but at soon as this first 'phase' is through, the book picks up pace and I really got caught up in the story.

Wolf is an wonderfully driven character. She has a good sense of what's going on around her, and although impulsive, is often spot-on in her judgments and can take fairly good care of herself. It was easy to dive into her thoughts and cheer her on as she took on things when others failed to take action.

The plot, once it gets going, is fast-paced and seasoned with just the right amount of action. There were several unexpected twists and turns, and I definitely couldn't wait to see what happened next. The danger hangs like a threatening fog and although tends not to really become vivid, keeps the tension high. There were moments, which I wondered how they were going to escape alive. There's also a tiny touch of romance, but this is tucked away nicely on the sidelines, keeping the plot on center stage.

As to the scenes, the descriptions pull in and immerse the reader into this strange world. The forest is so clear, I could taste the vegetation and moist air around Wolf. And the darkness in the underground tunnels pushed in, bringing the claustrophobic feeling to life.

Summed up, I can recommend this to YA Dystopian fans. It's a short read at 198 pages and shouldn't be attacked without hitting book one first. It's a little light on the visual action, offering more of a hanging tension (at least in book 2), but that didn't make it any less tense. I enjoyed it to the very last page.