Warehouse Dreams

by Theresa Halvorsen

Overview

Can an exhausted teacher protect her students with special powers from a society who wants them dead?

Life is hard for Kendle. If she’s not teaching teenagers with uncontrolled supernatural abilities, she’s fighting to not get fired from the Warehouse. Plus, a hot new teacher - rich and entitled, is everything Kendle hates. But when he saves her and her students from a violent mob, Kendle wonders if she was wrong.

Enter a world of Wilds with untamed, terrifying abilities and Breds, genetically engineered to rule society. Can Kendle save her school, keep her job, and protect the most gifted, but most dangerous teenagers from institutionalization?

Readers love Warehouse Dreams

I want to thank the author for this superb book. I loved it and within the first pages fell in love with the story, the characters, their lives, and challenges. I got so engrossed in the reading that I forgot to eat; all I wanted was to know how it developed. --Goodreads reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Theresa Halvorsen tells a classic tale of love overcoming prejudice with the twist of magical abilities thrown in to spice things up. I loved Kendle's spirit and determination to help others no matter the cost. She is a flawed, all too human (although gifted) woman who any reader will easily identify with.--Readers Favorite ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

This is really an allegory of society's treatment of minorities and the differently-abled. This book poses questions about how we live, the level of scientific intrusion we are willing to endure for a better life, and the way in which we treat people different from ourselves. This is a well-crafted novel with complex moral issues at its core, and an interesting sci-fi plot to keep you engaged, no easy feat all told. --Booklytical ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Warehouse Dreams grabs your heart from the first line and doesn't let go. It's a story of discovering strength inside ourselves and in community. With honesty and humor, Halvorsen delves into how we treat "other" and the joys and pains of giving our all for the ones we love. I couldn't put this book down, plain and simple, and I cannot wait to see what comes next.--Goodreads reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Product Details

BN ID:	2940164883638
Publisher:	Theresa Halvorsen
Publication date:	04/17/2021
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Theresa Halvorsen has never met a profanity she hasn’t enjoyed. She’s generally overly caffeinated and at times, wine soaked. She’s the author of both nonfiction and speculative fiction works and wonders what sleep is. When she’s not writing or podcasting at Semi-Sages of the Pages she’s commuting through San Diego traffic to her healthcare position. In whatever free time is left, Theresa enjoys board games, geeky conventions, and reading. She loves meeting and assisting other writers, and being a Beta reader is a particular joy. Her life goal is to give "Oh-My-Gosh-This-Book-Is-So-Good" happiness to her readers. She lives in Temecula with her amazing and supportive husband, on occasion, her college age twins and the pets they’d promised to care for. Find her at www.theresaHauthor.com and on Twitter and Facebook.

Editorial Reviews

Like many good science-fiction novels Warehouse Dreams raises, and attempts to address, an interesting ethical dilemma. Should we, as a society, sacrifice the few in order to improve the lives of the many? Should we allow scientists to mess with our genes to create the 'perfect' human? And if so should we allow the rich to take advantage of that?

Theresa Halvorsen spares no time in getting this hypothetical situation going. She doesn't bother with a slow build-up, or with a gentle introduction to the characters and setting, instead she throws us straight into the action and just gets on with telling her tale, and for the most part this works very well.

Warehouse Dreams tells the story of Kendle, assistant to the administrator of the Warehouse, the only school for children with Wild psychic abilities. Unlike the scientifically perfect 'Bred' children (those scientifically created), the Wilds are unpredictable and ostracizes by society, leaving them with nowhere to go, nowhere but the Warehouse anyway. Soon a handsome new teacher called Stephen begins working at the school to teach telepathic control to the children. It doesn't take long for a relationship to bloom between him and Kendle.

This is a sci-fi adventure novel with an underlying pseudo-romance that is both intriguing and unique... While this may sound like a simple formulaic YA novel on the face of it, it is actually far more than that. This is really an allegory of societies treatment of minorities and the differently abled. This book poses questions about how we live, the level of scientific intrusion we are willing to endure for a better life, and the way in which we treat people different from ourselves.This is a well crafted novel with complex moral issues at its core, and an interesting sci-fi plot to keep you engaged, no easy feat all told.

There are still many questions and aspects of this universe to explore so I sincerely hope there are more installments coming.

Jamie Hall in Booklytical.com

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