He’s dark and powerful, a magical anomaly. She’s inexperienced and untrained. Can they set aside their differences in time to save themselves?
Mysterious disappearances at a popular national park force authorities to organize a university-led expedition, and they’ve invited undergrads to compete to be included. As a talented Arete, Austin is a natural shoe-in. And he’s not the only experienced … student competing. Nicole struggles a great deal with her powers, but she knows she has what it takes, and she’s determined to prove that she can produce Wind magic.
With the help of her friends and advice from professors, Nicole pushes the limits of her magical abilities. As the competition heats up, however, she finds out that the trip she’s fighting for may be a one-way ticket…
And when she draws the attention of a secret organization with questionable motives, she must make a choice: let magic die or force all of humanity to suffer.
Mosaic Chronicles Books 1-5 tells a captivating story of adventure, fantasy, and romance. If you like break-the-mold paranormal fiction, romance, and fast-paced adventure, then you’ll love the first five books in Andrea Pearson’s groundbreaking and award-winning series!
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A great read with original characters and situations.
I have read the first book in the series, and round it fascinating good writer
it was hard to put down
This was the first set of books I read by Andrea and they were not the last! You get to meet all the characters that come up in several series. Nicole struggles with her magical abilities but really comes into her own. All while fighting monsters and falling in love. What more could you ask for?! You always want to keep reading to find out what will happen next.
I have recently read the Katon University series by Andrea Pearson. I absolutely enjoyed the series. If you enjoy suspense, clean romance(kissing), magic plus teens and adults working together to save the world and creating friendships, then this is absolutely the series for you. It is five books long and they are all out now so no waiting!!! They are clean and swear-word free which I loved- probably the most. This series seems to mostly take place on an alternate earth- one with magic.
I originally received Book 1 (Discern) as part of a book set and it enticed me enough to purchase the 5 book Omnibus set since it was only $0.99 which was a great price for a new series I wasn’t sure I would enjoy or not. If you have the opportunity to purchase this as the reduced cost, I highly recommend it. After reading all books, I still maintain this is a Young Adult maturity level series. There is a little teenage romance to it, but nothing risque. There is violence, yet nothing that I would keep my 12 year old from reading.
Book 1 (Discern) starts out promising with an intriguing plot with characters that are adequately developed by the end of Book 1. Unfortunately there are character flaws within each of these characters that are difficult to ignore. There are things that happen to the main characters and their reactions are far from normal. I can understand the argument that they are not normal humans but it still doesn’t condone their reactions or lack thereof. The series does have an interesting new concept revolving around this new magical world Pearson has created, but I do feel she took things too far out of the realm of creating plausible fantasy; even by the end of Book 1. I agree with other reviewers who have said the first part of Discern begins as paranormal/urban fantasy, and the second part becomes more horror/science fiction. After Book 1, the series solidifies as horror/science fiction.
Book 2 (Praxis) is frustrating since it’s not even a book – it’s a novella comprised of three short stories. I use the term story loosely since they are barely longer than chapters. I was also expecting a sequel to Book 1, and discovering three spin-off stories instead was very disappointing. Book 1 ended with lots of loose ends and a sizeable cliffhanger. Each story is completely different, and has nothing to do with the others except they help the series along as a whole.
Book 3 (Perceive) finally returns to the main storyline, but still can’t capture the intrigue and spark the first book had. It’s more like an Amish horror story mixed in with otherworldly science fiction. It’s disappointing that the main characters you grew attached to in Book 1 are missing because of the scenery change, and Pearson introduces us to new yet strange characters. Book 3 builds in suspense despite lulls that get monotonous yet ends with another massive cliffhanger. By now I was just hoping to get some of these loose ends resolved.
Book 4 (Observe) thankfully picks up right where Book 3 left off, although it continues with becoming more and more unbelievable with each new book. This book was the most difficult for me to buy in to. The same character flaws come to a head in this book. If I hadn’t already purchased the set, I would have stopped reading by now, but plodded on to see how it ends.
Book 5 (Reclaim) is a lot of the same criticisms mentioned above. Again, Pearson builds the suspense up to the final epic battle between the Aretes and Tarians through many twists and turns, yet not all of them are good. She continues her trend of setting her characters up against impossible odds yet somehow her characters still prevail completely unscathed. At least Book 5 concludes with the epic battle we’ve all been waiting for, and my curiosity is satisfied. Although I know there are more books in this series, I can’t bring myself to pursue them past this point. If you’re a big fan of Science Fiction/Horror, this series is for you. Unfortunately it’s just not my cup of tea.
Not very good. Kind of flat and boring characters
Interesting plot. Enjoyed the story easy read.
I actually read these (with advancing degrees of addiction) as separate books and loved each of them in turn. They truly are a great combination of romance, adventure and magic, with well developed characters that I genuinely liked and who interact wonderfully with each other, plus a believable world and great supporting cast. It’s great to have these all in one easy collection and that collection is easy for me to recommend. Readers will definitely enjoy. But for the fact that I’m literally dictating this review to my husband from my hospital bed I could go on and on with praises – the book definitely deserves it. Since I can’t do that I will simply note that the book is most definitely one to read, it is easy to highly recommend.
Haven’t finished it yet, but I’m enjoying it.
A wonderful book of magic and the tale of a couple working with each other and there teacher this is a great read she really brings out the characters the main character Nicole faces a lot of challenges but tackles them well I highly recommend
Shauna
I have loved reading these books and I am up to the last lot. I even enjoy them that much I take my iPad with me everywhere
This was a fun read!
It was a good book but once you hit the later books it gets a little slow
There were days I read for 5 hours straight! Didn’t take me long to read. LOVED the story line and the characters! Well written too.
It’s very difficult to find good clean books to read these days. One of the important characteristics I enjoyed about this book is the fact I didn’t have to cringe at a swear word or uncomfortable sex scene as I turned each page. It was an added bonus that this was a book about magic and adventure. And just so I could get a few more of this author’s books, I signed up for her newsletters. I’m hoping my need to read more of her books will be sated, at least a little, until I’m finished with those.
Mosaic Chronicles is an edge of your seat unique story that has magical humans and other types of beings. Characters are well made, story is full of twist and turns, unique , flows nicely from each book and has romance too. I read this in a few days and cannot wait to finish this series. I highly recommend this series and now added another favorite author to my list
Well written with interesting characters. Liked that the romance wasn’t geared to teen hormones.
Had a good time reading this book.
Wanted more!
About half way through I found that I did not care at all about the characters. So I stopped reading it.