Review: I'll be reading this one over again...
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 24, 2012
Chasing Power( Hidden Talents) by Genevieve PearsonI really loved this book. It's even better now that some of the stylistic formatting errors have been corrected. Most of that is Kindle issues and trying to get the format of the original to come out right on the Kindle.Chasing Power  grabbed my interest and kept it most the way through to the end. It took a while before I started seeing elements of something new or surprising beyond common plot elements. Some of the sequence of events were predictable such as Harry being thrown off from his protective guard duty by an attractive females uncanny attention to someone like Harry. Eventually though the author , Genevieve Pearson, shows her stuff as she begins to throw in a few twists to the plot.I really enjoyed the main character, Samantha, and her distrust of the others. Of course it's only fair that she doesn't trust Lane, Al, and Harry while she views them as her kidnappers. It is often difficult to come down from that kidnapper trope and twist it around without having to address Stockholm Syndrome and run afoul of those who think a kidnapper is a kidnapper is a kidnapper. All black and white no greys. Samantha has trust issues. I think that this was all handled well and the subsequent miscommunication because of mistrust is quite believable adding much to the story. The realization of the reality of everything and the general way that the kidnappers treat Sam are helpful in turning that event one hundred and eighty. It's handled as well as the rest of the story.As mentioned there were issues in my original copy which had formatting problems along with style issues in dialogue that sometimes made conversations difficult to decode and as I have mentioned those have been fixed. I have no objection to omitting he said and she said when things format out to where things are easy to follow but sometimes the format of kindle files removes and adds spacing which can cause some things to be munged.That said it really did not take away from the story (only messed with the pace). There's a lot of action and well paced plot development in the book to force the reader to think in terms of reading this all in one sitting. So, I think it all works out in the end.I recommend this book to anyone who reads Science Fiction or Fantasy or who loves those super hero graphic books. This has elements for all those people put together with some original plot twists and it's begging for a sequel.Or maybe that's just me begging for the sequel.J.L. Dobias