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Caller Unknown (Karen Wilson Chronicles Book 1) Kindle Edition

by Jennifer Brozek (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
3.8 3.8 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
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“Please, Karen. Lamiel will die tonight if you don’t help her.”

Kendrick is a city alive in more ways than one. Its borders contain a hidden world composed of secret societies, the supernatural, the lost, and the unexplained. It is the world that Karen, a 911 operator, is thrust into. It begins with a phone call. A stranger begs Karen to save a young woman’s life, opening Karen’s eyes to the world beneath the surface of the city she thought she knew. People are dying. Artifacts are being stolen. The streets are filled with rumors of a city-destroying ritual. Karen is determined to figure out what is really going on and protect her city, whatever the cost… Caller Unknown: Book One of the Karen Wilson Chronicles, is the first of four collections following the trials of Karen Wilson as she delves into the secret side of Kendrick. With enemies on all sides, unknown allies, and a baby gargoyle, what she finds will change her life forever.
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    Karen Wilson Chronicles
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    November 7, 2012
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B009OXODTS
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Apocalypse Ink Productions (November 7, 2012)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 7, 2012
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 639 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
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  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 208 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.8 3.8 out of 5 stars 12 ratings

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Jennifer Brozek

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Jennifer Brozek is a multi-talented, award-winning author, editor, and media tie-in writer. She is the author of Never Let Me Sleep and The Last Days of Salton Academy, both of which were nominated for the Bram Stoker Award. Her BattleTech tie-in novel, The Nellus Academy Incident, won a Scribe Award. Her editing work has earned her nominations for the British Fantasy Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and the Hugo Award. She won the Australian Shadows Award for the Grants Pass anthology, co-edited with Amanda Pillar. Jennifer’s short form work has appeared in Apex Publications, Uncanny Magazine, and in anthologies set in the worlds of Valdemar, Shadowrun, V-Wars, Masters of Orion, and Predator.

Jennifer has been a freelance author and editor for over fifteen years after leaving a high paying tech job, and she has never been happier. She keeps a tight schedule on her writing and editing projects and somehow manages to find time to volunteer for several professional writing organizations such as SFWA, HWA, and IAMTW. She shares her husband, Jeff, with several cats and often uses him as a sounding board for her story ideas. Visit Jennifer's worlds at jenniferbrozek.com.

"I see story ideas. All the time. They're everywhere. Just walking around like normal ideas. They don't know they're stories."

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Greg Hallock
5.0 out of 5 stars A good, quick paranormal "helper" series.
Reviewed in the United States on December 25, 2016
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A fast paced book of intertwining short stories about a very mundane lady, and her not-so mundane city. Karen Wilson devoted herself to helping people, and one day, one of the most powerful entities of her hometown of Kendrick, Washington rang her up. . .

At its core, Caller Unknown is about a mundane everywoman. She's dating, but not steady. She works a night shift job, but loves it enough to accept the weird hours and stress it puts on her. Then a fateful call and she's pushed into the middle of an arcane society she'd never dreamed of. Each side wants to use her for their own purposes, or eliminate her "threat" to them.

I like Brozek's writing. It is quick, and avoids some writing conventions that I think are over used. Characters DO die. Some of them die absolutely pointlessly. Just like in real life. Some irredeemable characters survive. Just like in real life. The police do noble and selfless things. . . and stupid and ignorant things.

This first novel gives a good representation of the remainder of the series.
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S. Marsh
5.0 out of 5 stars Surprisingly well done
Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2013
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I was surprised at how well this was written. It was complete in and of itself while fitting into a series (or so it is advertised -- I plan to find out by reading the series).

You can read more than enough about the plot or the setting. I just wanted to confirm it is carried off well without gratuitous sex or other miscellaneous material.

Two thumbs up.
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Steven Saus
4.0 out of 5 stars A little bit of the unknown can lead to a lot of excitement
Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2012
I live in Ohio. Over the last few months, I've been trained to not even pick up the phone if there's not a caller ID number that I recognize, unless I wanted to hear a political party rant about the other candidate.

Now, though, we're back to normal. And there's something slightly exciting about an unknown caller. It's a departure from the normal, the expected, from the everyday mundane existence of our overinformed lives. And unlike answering an unexpected knock at your door, answering a call without knowing who's on the other end isn't really risky.

Unless you listen.

In Caller Unknown, the new collection of stories from author and editor Jennifer Brozek, a 911 operator named Karen does listen. That unknown call is not merely an interruption in her mundane day, but a gateway to a whole side of her city that she never realized existed.

This urban fantasy (with a little bit of a dark edge) collection is a series of connected and related short stories, but each one is complete in itself. There are gaps of time between them. Characters allude to events that have taken place in those gaps, without actively spelling any of them out. This is actually a strength of the work - we get to skip to the "good bits" without having to sacrifice the sense that there's a larger world out there where things actually take time to happen. While there's a lot of worldbuilding and some really interesting twists on classic genre themes, it feels like there's even more going on. It feels like there's a world beyond the page.

The way the stories were originally written does expose the book's single (sort of) weakness. Ms. Brozek wrote the stories over a period of time, and the stories get better as you get further into the book. I say this is a "sort of" weakness", though. The even the weakest story in the book is still pretty darn good, and they only get better from there.

Overall, I enjoyed reading this collection of stories and seeing the way the storyline (and author) developed through the book. This is a solid first collection of these stories, and judging by the strength by which it finishes, I'm really looking forward to the rest of the series.

[Full Disclosure: I got a review ARC of this book. I've worked with the author on other projects both as an author and a publisher. That said, I review all books as impartially as I can and I've even panned my friend's books before.]
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sanshliangirl
3.0 out of 5 stars A world hidden from ours
Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2016
*review originally posted on A Bibliophile's Reverie*

I found this story to be a bit simple, not much description and mainly dialogue. I wasn’t able to concentrate on what was going on, getting lost in who was talking and where exactly they were. I felt like it could have been fleshed out more so that the story felt more complete.

Although I wasn’t able to connect too much with the story, I found the character to be interesting as she was a 911 operator and got dragged into this mess. I liked her reason as to why she became one, but other than that I wasn’t too interested.

If you enjoy urban fantasy and it tying to jobs like 911 operators ands the real world, this story could be for you. I give it a 3/5, as I was having trouble connecting with the story but it was still a very interesting concept. It’s a short read and would recommend it for people wanting to read something a little different.
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