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TESSA
by Kfir Luzzatto
Series: Tessa Extra-Sensory Agent #1
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Published by Pine Ten on May 18, 2020
Genres: YA Dark Fantasy
Pages: 116
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“I was only fourteen when the government took me away from my family. My gift is rare and precious, I know. I can read your mind, and I can do other things to you too. Do you want to try?
“They said that they would help me to improve, and they did. Now, I no longer need them. I got out of hand, so they fear me. And they should.”
Tessa is a regular girl, except that she sees things that are far away. She agrees to go on a critical mission that puts to the test not only her special abilities, but also her loyalty to the service, and her love for a young woman whose secrets she is yet to unravel.
Tessa by Kfir Luzzatto is a fascinating book on a significant fantasy trope of reading someone else’s mind.
What is Tessa’s mission that puts almost everything at risk?
Tessa
Tessa is no ordinary seventeen-year-old girl that was raised with her family. Nope, Tessa has been in a secret government agency, and let’s just say that agency sucked. Tessa went from one agency to another where she is at right now. Let’s just say that it must be hard to grow up with these types of powers and to have to grow up with government agents watching you. Being written in the first person, we see a lot of things through Tessa’s mind, and that lends a confident feeling while reading that you are there with the characters even more so than usual. Tessa has a way of bringing forth detail that would take you there immediately in her perspective, but Mr. Luzzatto himself has a great way of making the details stand out himself.
What I like about Tessa is that she is different than any other character that I have read. Tessa acts like a mature seventeen-year-old and is also acting like a mini adult as well.
The Story
The story has us following Tessa through a series of events that lead her to where she is at right now in her life. Well, as a seventeen-year-old girl that works for the government finding bad guys. Tessa has an exciting way of telling the story, and I won’t go into too much detail as it is significant spoilers, but the story is fantastic. It kept me on my toes the entire time.
Four Stars
Tessa by Kfir Luzzatto is an excellent start to a new series by Mr. Luzzatto. Mr. Luzzatto did something different within this book that I never thought would be possible. I love the fact that he did do some research on the subject matter. I also liked that he did this book in a new way for him as his main character isn’t a boy. Tessa, the main character, is a great one, and I think that Mr. Luzzatto has an excellent series on his hands. I am giving it four stars and recommending it to anyone that likes fantasy and young adult.
Thank you for dropping by! I hope you enjoyed this review of Tessa by Kfir Luzzatto.
Until the next time,
Happy Reading!
About Kfir Luzzatto
I was born and raised in Italy, and moved to Israel as a teenager. I acquired the love for the English language from my father, a former U.S. soldier and WWII veteran, a voracious reader and a prolific writer. With a PhD in chemical engineering and a long family history that I need to live up to, I work as a patent attorney and head the patent law firm that was established by my great-grandfather in Milan, Italy, in 1869. I live in Omer, Israel, with my full-time partner, Esther, our four children, Michal, Lilach, Tamar and Yonatan, and the dog Elvis. Writing has always been my passion and for almost four years I wrote a weekly “Patents” column in Globes (Israel’s financial newspaper), which also yielded my non-fiction book, THE WORLD OF PATENTS, (a not-so-boring tale of what patents are about, in Hebrew), which was published in 2002 by Globes Press. Since then, although I vowed not to spend time on non-fiction books, I released a new, more international and more comprehensive book, FUN WITH PATENTS, published in February of 2016. I love writing short stories but I have too many novels waiting to be written (and possibly not enough years ahead of me to write them all), so now I mostly write full-length fiction. My other passion is working with other authors on stories I love and that’s how I wound up serving on the editorial board of The Harrow Press as Anthology Editor until the end of 2014, when The Harrow Press folded its tent. You can read about my books through my Amazon link, Goodreads link, or at my website. I love them all, but I never had greater fun than when working on “HAVE BOOK WILL TRAVEL”, a YA fantasy that I wrote together with my son, Yonatan.
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