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The Awakening
by Jodi Dee
Series: Energy Wars #1
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Published by Jodi Dee Publishing on March 1, 2025
Genres: Middle Grade Fantasy
Pages: 200
Format: Hardcover
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Myles is a typical thirteen-year-old boy until one day things change drastically. A girl Myles admires, Sally Munson, shows up to school with purple pants that everyone is making fun of. Myles starts to see this teasing as fireballs of energy being thrown around him. He finds himself in the middle of a war zone, invisible to everyone but him!
Follow Myles as he navigates and tries to understand his newfound superpower and how his friends come together to help him save the world!
The Awakening by Jodi Dee has Myles waking up one day to see fireballs of energy thrown around, and he doesn’t know why.
Will Myles find out why he is seeing fireballs of energy?
Myles
Myles is a thirteen-year-old boy who discovers one day that he can see fireballs of energy. These balls of energy explode from one person and slam into another. He doesn’t know why he can see these things, and no one else can. Myles gave himself an information overload on scientific stuff about the human body, realizing his term “energy wars” is apt.
I had a hard time connecting with Myles and the path that Ms. Dee has set out for him to take. His family life is hard for me to imagine. I understand that there are many different family units out there, but for me, I felt sorry for Myles and his father due to the way his grandmother chooses to share her life.
Three Stars
My rating for The Awakening by Jodi Dee is three stars. I thought it had a good concept, but it still needed further development. This book focuses on the middle grade reader, but the words that the author uses are way above the average middle grade vocabulary. Additionally, she blends elements of different religions to help the perception of her characters and why they do the things that they do. For me, it would be better to focus on how the character is handling his path in life and not the why.
Ms. Dee also needed to look it over before publishing it, as some of the sentences were broken into different paragraphs. Also, the ending is beyond a cliffhanger; it is more like the story just stopped mid-issue, and we are expected to wait until the next installment. Readers, at least those like me, do not like this.
Thank you for dropping by! I hope you enjoyed this review of The Awakening by Jodi Dee.
Until the next time,
Happy Reading!
About Jodi Dee
Author Jodi Dee is an award-winning author and the author of the best-sellers, “The Dirt Girl” and “The Seeking Tree”. She is a mother of three with over twenty years of experience in early learning, education, and entrepreneurship.
Jodi has a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology & History and a Master’s in Education from Clark University. She is a passionate advocate and teacher of self-love, emotional maturity, early childhood education, and empowering children to learn through creativity, independence, self-exploration, and discovery.
Jodi’s books have won multiple awards in multiple categories, including the Purple Dragonfly Book Awards, Moonbeam Book Awards, National Indie Books Awards, American Fiction Awards, Next Generation Indie Books Awards, and more.
Author Jodi Dee is available for speaking engagements, readings, classroom visits, and Skype or virtual visits.
Reading this book contributed to these challenges:
- 2025 Goodreads RC
- 2025 Middle Grade Reading Challenge
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