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Mine Kindle Edition

by Brett Battles (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars 448 ratings
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"The best word I can use to describe his writing is addictive."--JAMES ROLLINS, New York Times best selling author

From NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Brett Battles comes a twisted and suspenseful dive into the unknown.

Something happened that night in the woods at Camp Red Hawk. But all Joel and Leah can recall is sneaking out for a late hike with five camp friends, and that only the two of them and their friend Mike returned.

They have no memory of what happened to the others. No memory of anything after leaving the camp.

In the years that follow, they realize something has changed inside of them. They are different from others, in ways they never should be. In ways that send their lives down disturbing and terrifying paths.

As they grapple with adulthood, their only hope for understanding why they've been altered lies with them finding each other again. But how is that possible when their memories of one another have been erased?

Here's what others are saying about Brett Battles's other work:

"Battles keeps layering on the suspense until you can hardly breathe." — Linwood Barclay, New York Times bestselling author

"Hyponically gripping." — New York Times bestselling author Gayle Lynds

"Highly recommended." — Library Journal (starred review)

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Brett Battles is an American author from Los Angeles, California.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01HUBSCJW
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Amazon Digital Services, Inc. (July 19, 2016)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 19, 2016
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 3134 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 362 pages
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Brett Battles is a NEW YORK TIMES bestselling and Barry Award-winning author of forty novels, including the Jonathan Quinn series and its Excoms spinoff, the Project Eden series, and the time bending Rewinder series. He’s also the coauthor, with Robert Gregory Browne, of the Alexandra Poe series. He is one of the founding members of Killer Year, and is a member of Mystery Writers of America and International Thriller Writers. He lives and writes in Ventura County, California. More info available at www.brettbattles.com.

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4.1 out of 5 stars
4.1 out of 5
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Ira Green
5.0 out of 5 stars awesome, amazing
Reviewed in the United States on July 20, 2016
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stayed up all night reading this.

I don't want to include any spoilers, so this is vague: this reminded me strongly of a series of books from a few years ago. that series had a very similar setup, but it didn't play it out very well, and I eventually gave up on it. I know that other series was really popular, but it was overly complicated and I felt like the themes got in the way of the story.

THIS book, by contrast, was really tight, and suspenseful, with clear strong themes that aligned with everything in the story.

there was even one scene that had exactly the same setup: a student performs better than expected, and is called out for cheating by school officials. in THIS book, the student did exactly what the character in the other book should have done.

this book was so very, very good.
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Tghu Verd
4.0 out of 5 stars Slow burn but once it gets going...
Reviewed in the United States on September 18, 2016
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This is a different style of book to Battles Jonathan Quinn series so if you are expecting something similar, prepare to be disappointed. Which I was, by the way, and esp. because if felt slow to start and I was concerned that I'd just bought a dud. Then, a couple of chapters in, I clicked into the groove of the story and it was an enjoyable journey from then on. But if this does not click, you are likely going to want to be writing a 1-star review, though hopefully you'll provide more useful details than just the "awful" comment of one of them.

The novel seems thriller at first, then supernatural, then sci fi. But whatever style you decide, Battles does a terrific job of both keeping the mechanism of the novel shrouded in mystery until very much near the end. That's actually quite a feat and he almost does the impossible of keeping the mystery all the way through. And I found the mystery itself an OK premise, which is unusual because most of these kind of "what actually happened out there" stories end up with a mundane - or totally outlandish - explanation. Battles also never lights up the "why" of what was happening, not in any detail at least, which I found satisfying but some others might not like. He also builds a strong sense of an implacable enemy in play, and that really came through in the ending, which is a very untraditional cliffhanger.

If you read this you will see that it is hard to write a critique that does not include spoilers, but I can say this is a personality driven novel and while there is action it is driven by the personalities, not the other way around. It moves along briskly enough but is not one of those breakneck potboilers rushing from one improbable action sequence to yet another improbable action sequence. And despite the protagonists being "different from others, in ways they never should be" this is not really a book about young people trying to fit into their peer groups. So reviews that it targets YA did not feel right to me.

Anyway, it's Battles being different and if you can work through the slow start and accept that Quinn aint gunna make an appearance, I think you stand a good chance of enjoying it as I did.
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Richard B. Schwartz
3.0 out of 5 stars Caveat Emptor
Reviewed in the United States on May 31, 2019
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I am a great Brett Battles fan, but I was disappointed in MINE. This could be entirely my fault. The book is science-fiction, not crime/suspense and I am not an avid sci-fi reader. I have read enough to find the underlying concept behind MINE to be somewhat commonplace. More important, the rhythms of the novel are not to my taste. The book begins very, very slowly and we are not sure of the genre in which we are immersing ourselves until nearly halfway through the story. The ending is protracted (which is fine; the new Thomas Harris novel reaches its climax and denouement in three pages), but the ‘discovery’ sequence becomes more and more predictable and, as a result, has less and less impact.

The concept: seven children at a summer camp in Colorado defy counsellors’ orders and go for a late-night hike in the woods. They find what appears to be an abandoned building marked as a government facility. In other words, STAY OUT: THIS MEANS YOU. Of course they go in and weird physical things happen. Three escape (Joel, Leah, and Mike) and four are not heard from again. Years later the three who escaped discover that they have acquired strange powers. They have personally been ‘changed’ and ‘altered’. They eventually come together and try to discover the source of these changes, i.e., it’s back to the woods, despite the threats abounding there.

Brett Battles is a wonderful writer. He creates interesting characters involved in piledriver-action stories in beautifully-realized settings. The Battles ‘feel’ pervades the novel, but this is not anything like a Jonathan Quinn, Excoms, Night Man (Nate) or Logan Harper thriller. It is sci-fi and it does not so much create a new world (as great sci-fi often does) as introduce some commonplace notions about governors of the cosmos, machines controlling people, and so on, but THE MATRIX it is not. Unfortunately.

It pains me to give Brett Battles three stars, but remember, sci-fi is not part of my usual intellectual diet and this book does not immediately announce itself as such. When it does and reveals its underlying concepts they are largely underwhelming. For those who doubt my loyalty to BB, see my recent rave review of NIGHT MAN.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Story
Reviewed in Australia on March 20, 2018
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A Really great read, it was a so well thought out and I could not wait to find out what was going to happen next, Im about to start the next book.Really looking forward to continue the story .
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john
5.0 out of 5 stars Brett battles + scifi = I'm in !!!
Reviewed in Canada on August 10, 2016
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Great read. Love Brett battles books. This was a little different for him. But I hope he write more in this sci-fi tone.
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Anthony Lincoln
5.0 out of 5 stars Incredible
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 29, 2016
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I thought hard and long to find the appropriate words for my review of "MINE". Given that I lean towards Brett Battles' "Quinn" series and books by Vince Flynn and David Baldacci to name just two, I would not normally read sci-fi. Having said that, although I found "MINE" eerie, unearthly, and a bit weird it was utterly compelling. I remain in awe of the thought process required in order to construct what is a very challenging and brilliant story. By the 3rd chapter I was totally captivated and I enjoyed "MINE" so much I completed reading it in less than 24 hours. To say that I didn't want it to end sounds odd, but the book is that good. In a nutshell, I loved it.
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Denis Marquis
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in Canada on September 22, 2017
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An other style of writing. Interesting.
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Come in spinner
4.0 out of 5 stars Credible page turner
Reviewed in Australia on April 10, 2018
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Taut, well-plotted story (though the extraterrestrial link is a little too convenient) with convincing characterisation. I read it in one sitting. Perhaps reading the novella wich indicates how the Reclaimer came to be might settle my quibbles over the resolution... perhaps.
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