Between Mountain and Sea
Paradisi Chronicles

BETWEEN MOUNTAIN AND SEA is a pretty serene YA book. Written in 3rd person, past tense, dual POV, the story takes place in the Paradisi Chronicles, an open-source science fiction world created by multiple authors. BETWEEN alternates between Mei Lin’s time in Mynyddamor mountains, and Mabel Yu’s jour......more

I thoroughly enjoyed this story. It took a while to get going, but that seems reasonable as so many new situations, places, concepts and relationships needed to be introduced and understood. The reader’s increasing understanding paralleling that of the main character, Mei Lin Yu. Spending the time g......more

I have to admit that my expectations for this book were fairly low going into it. I've read a LOT of sci-fi, and after awhile it all starts to blend together. But I was happily surprised by "Between Mountain and Sea" -- it's a well-written and compelling story, with a likable heroine and a well-real......more

I love the layers of story being built in this first installment-- the air of mystery about what happened to the 11th shuttle, who Jaxon is (and what became of him) and of course, why Mei has similar gifts to the native (to the alien planet she lives on) Ddaerans… all blended with Mei’s ancestor, Ma......more

Not for me. Chapter 1 overloaded with info dumps about useless information regarding the MC's childhood. Also lots of the MC asking herself how she knows something without being told. (Gender of an animal, for example). Breaking point was when the first two characters, who we've been told were telepat......more