Review: Touch

Oct •  28 •  2011

Title: Touch
Series: A Denazen Novel # 1
Genre: Young Adult- Fantasy/Paranormal
Author: Jus Accardo
Publisher: Entangled Publishing
Release Date: October 9, 2011
Book: E-ARC sent by publisher

“When a strange boy tumbles down a river embankment and lands at her feet, seventeen-year-old adrenaline junkie Deznee Cross snatches the opportunity to piss off her father by bringing the mysterious hottie with ice blue eyes home.

Except there’s something off with Kale. He wears her shoes in the shower, is overly fascinated with things like DVDs and vases, and acts like she’ll turn to dust if he touches her. It’s not until Dez’s father shows up, wielding a gun and knowing more about Kale than he should, that Dez realizes there’s more to this boy—and her father’s “law firm”—than she realized.

Kale has been a prisoner of Denazen Corporation—an organization devoted to collecting “special” kids known as Sixes and using them as weapons—his entire life. And, oh yeah, his touch? It kills. The two team up with a group of rogue Sixes hellbent on taking down Denazen before they’re caught and her father discovers the biggest secret of all. A secret Dez has spent her life keeping safe.

A secret Kale will kill to protect.

Except, there’s something off with Kale. He wears her shoes in the shower, is overly fascinated with things like DVDs and vases, and acts like she’ll turn to dust if he touches her. It’s not until Dez’s father shows up, wielding a gun and knowing more about Kale than he should, that Dez realizes there’s more to this boy—and her father’s “law firm”—than she realized.
Kale has been a prisoner of Denazen Corporation—an organization devoted to collecting the “Afflicted” and using them as weapons—his entire life. And, oh yeah, his touch? It kills. The two team up with a group of rogue Afflicted hell bent on taking down Denazen before they’re caught and her father discovers the biggest secret of all. A secret Dez has spent her life keeping safe.

A secret Kale will kill to protect.”

I can tell you that right from the start this book had me extremely engaged and would not put it down. I just fell in love with it the moment I started to read it! So much innocence yet danger around every corner, Touch is a book so enticing that you have no choice but to finish!

I loved the plot line of this book. It always intrigues me when a character can not touch anything, and hidden from the world. The aweness of Kale and everything he was learning had me laughing. I loved that the plot delve deeper than what I expected. It open doors to betrayals, secrets were exposed, but also new ones were made.

The characters of this book really held on to me. I like that Ms. Accardo made it easy for the reader to step right into the story. Everything as I read, felt fresh, alive, and unique. I can say that once I started this book, I was no longer in my world, but running to fight for my life in the one she created! I loved that for the short moment in time, Ms. Accardo gripped me with her writing and took me somewhere wonderful.

Now the love interest was definitely unique and beautiful. Unique well cause just the situation their in made it so much more fun to see develop. Beautiful cause with all of their struggles, the manage a peaceful love, a love that is strongly bonded and can not be broken.

Touch is a great novel of action and adventure. Learning of what the government does, the hiding, the killing, had me reading the book faster. Over all, Touch is  a beautiful touching book with a dark history spewing out of the pages. *There is cursing/sex scene*

I give it 5 BITES!

Happy Reading!

8 Comments

  1. Anna
    Oct 28, 2011

    I just can’t wait to read this book and now you have me all the more eager…
    Pity I couldn’t get it through NetGalley… 🙁

  2. A. Knight
    Oct 28, 2011

    I very much want to read this! Hope this as wonderful as you made it sound.

    – Asher (from Paranormal Indulgence)

  3. Giselle
    Oct 28, 2011

    Yay! So happy to see you liked this. I really did as well. I agree the characters are fun and the action was very addicting. Awesome review.

    Giselle
    Xpresso Reads

  4. DforDarla
    Oct 28, 2011

    I loved Touch. So happy you did too!

  5. Anna
    Oct 28, 2011

    Touch was just simply awesome I loved it waiting for Toxic

  6. Oh another great review of this one. I so need to get it! It sounds just like a book I would enjoy!

  7. Loved this book! I loved Kale’s naive-ness 😀

    Krazyyme @ Young Readers

  8. Shellie
    Oct 29, 2011

    Thanks for the review, it sounds like a really great read. It’s on my nook from like 2-3 weeks ago but I’ll get to it soon lol =)