| Heart Sense | 
 enlarge | Author: K. L. Richardsson
Publisher: Prizm Books
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Reading Level: Young Adult
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Pages: 196
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Dimensions (in): 8 x 5 x 0.5
ISBN: 1603703535
EAN: 9781603703536
ASIN: 1603703535
Publication Date: June 17, 2008
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The only son of a traveling merchant, Katjin spends his summer in the clan lands with his grandparents. He wishes his father, his apa, would take him along, but despite the promises that someday hell get to go, Katjin is left behind while his apa heads away on business that seems more and more suspicious the older Kat becomes. During one such summer, Katjin finds Mikael, a lost young man, who draws Kat to him by answering his song. In a world where the Empire brands all people as either paths, people with psychic talent, or as non-paths, Mikael is remarkable in that he has no brand. Fearing that the cavalry, who are arriving to recruit new members, will find Mikael in their clan and bring the Empires fury down upon them, the clan sends Kat and Mikael to hide away until it is safe - along with his cousin Soren to keep them both safe. Knowing the best way to keep Mikael from being taken is to make him a member of the clan, Soren and Katjin plan a blood bonding ceremony, but they have no idea what kind of trouble theyve started with their actions. Katjin learns soon enough that he wont be able to escape his bond with Mikael, and that danger lurks around every corner. Danger that he never knew existed. Can he keep Mikael safe long enough to figure out exactly what their future holds?
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Heart Sense by K.L Richardsson July 28, 2008
In a fantasy world Katjin is a fifteen years old guy who travels the country with his Apa, his father. But suddenly Apa needs to go in the Higlands, a place not safe for a boy like Katjin, no more a child but not yet a man. So Katjin remains with his grandparents, and it's not bad, until the day he finds a lost boy, Mikael. Mik is clearly a stranger and a runaway; somehow he manages to reach the territory where Kat's people have their camp and he sings the ailing song to Kat, a song who grants him protection. Mik is now Kat's responsibility, even more when, trying to claim a blood bond, they are literally stuck together.
I was uncertain when I decided to read this one. Fantasy is not up my alley, usually since, sorry to the genre's lovers, the stories are always very long and slow, and if you are not fond for the setting, you get lost in all the details. Heart Sense instead starts from the first with a very easy and smooth style; 200 pages of book flows without problem in few time and the world it builds, even if original, it's not boring.
Kat and Mik have obviously a relationship that, in the future, could be of sexual nature, but in this moment, Kat at fifteen and Mik at sixteen years old, can only recognize the symptoms of desire and be conscious that something is awaiting for them. Even if Kat is the younger, he is the first to acknowledge his desire for Mik, maybe since he has just started to admit that he is more interesting in guys than in girls. Mik instead needs to come to term with this relationship, above all since he is an Heart Sense and human contacts make him sick; and so he needs to learn to be at comfort with having a human body near him, and after that, with the fact that the human body is a male.
The story of Kat and Mik is an adventure, a coming of age journey, but not yet toward romance. In this book they learn that they need to be together, probably in the future (another book?) they will learn that being together means also something else.
Again my compliments to the author for having manage to write a book very easy to read and entertaining without being too complex.
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