The Connection – a Review

Bea Walker’s life is about to be turned upside down.

The Connection, the first book in The Blood-Light trilogy, is a teen science fiction book has fantasy, romance, deceit, and betrayal. Even though Bea Walker has lost her mother and can’t remember their last week together, she is sure that she’s a normal teenage girl. But normal she is not. Neither was her mom.

There are aliens attending Bea’s school. Now they claim that they have been sent to guard her. Apparently, there is a power source inside her that can save two worlds: theirs and Earth. And this power source was put inside her by her mom.

These aliens were sent to protect the girl and then retrieve the power source. Sounds uncomplicated and simple. But it turns out to be so much more complicated than expected and the process is anything but simple. Bea discovers that she isn’t who she thought she was and people that she has known for most of her life aren’t who she thought they were, most of all her mother and father.

Even though he won’t admit it, Cash, one of the aliens, is attracted to Bea just as much as she is to him. A love triangle is created when a boy at school who has been trying so hard to get Bea’s attention finds out that Cash is now her “boyfriend.”

Bea wasn’t taking seriously that she was in any kind of danger until she went on a run to get out of the house and away from everyone. Cash insisted on tagging along. After all, he was supposed to be keeping her safe. But then two men dressed in black, who had guns, tried to kidnap her. She hadn’t expected this, but neither had she expected Cash shake the streetlights, pull off two car doors, and melt a metal gun. He definitely wasn’t human.

And she realizes the fate of her world and theirs lies in the choices she makes.

The author did a phenomenal job with this book, and I look forward to reading the rest of this trilogy. I was sent my copy of The Connection in exchange for an honest review. If you would like your own copy of this outstanding book, I’ve provided an Amazon link below.

Amazon Link: The Connection

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Favorite Sentences:

By the end of last period, my stomach twisted in so many knots, I felt like a wrung-out washcloth.

Sure, my face resembled uncooked meat, but I felt nothing—no pain, throbbing, or any other indication that my nose was shattered.

He took the hit, reeling back against my grandmother’s piano. Notes and chords chimed to their deaths as his body crushed it to more splinters.

Bugs were so gross, but this one took vulgar to a whole nother level.

New Word Learned:

cerise – moderate to deep red

About the Author:

When author Dana Claire had several poems published as an elementary school student, she was hooked, and writing became her passion. A shared dream of hers and her mother’s, she promised her dying mother that she would become a published author and that dream has been realized with The Connection.

Dana believes that a good story is made through strong character development; when readers become attached to the characters’ emotional state and are invested in their objectives. She believes that the beauty of reading is that one can live a hundred lives within the stories of books. Her own stories come to her in her dreams, and she wakes up with book ideas.

Dana’s family is very supportive of her writing and the creativity and sentiment driving it. Enjoying bicoastal living between Los Angeles and New York, Dana says she “lives the best romance in the world being married to the most amazing man she could ever ask for.” The Connection is her debut YA novel, the first volume in a planned trilogy.