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Regen Paperback – April 5, 2018

by Cassie Greutman (Author)

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Life is finally shaping up for Trisha. For the first time, she’s with a foster family she doesn’t hate. Her new school is decent, and she even has a boyfriend. Until the night she finds herself waking up in the woods covered in blood, a bullet hole in her dress. Without her fae abilities, she’d be dead, but now the Faerie Council has given her an ultimatum. She has to help find an escaped fugitive, or be taken to Faerie, a place her missing mother told her horror stories about. Now, Trish has to keep her day job a secret from her foster parents, join forces with the ex-boyfriend who killed her, and hunt down a dangerous criminal before he comes into his powers. Should be a piece of cake.

Print length

326 pages
Language

English
Publication date

April 5, 2018
Dimensions

6 x 0.74 x 9 inches
ISBN-10

1732047103
ISBN-13

978-1732047105
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Greutman Media (April 5, 2018)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 326 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1732047103
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1732047105
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.23 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.74 x 9 inches

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Cassie Greutman is a small town Ohio girl who has always loved stories in any form. You can usually find her typing away at her computer or playing out in the barn with her ponies.

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The Squeaky Clean Reader

Perfect teenage urban fantasy with lots of character growth

Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2023

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Quick plot summary: Trisha, our main character, is 16 years old. As we start the book she wakes up on her 16th birthday in the middle of the forest, being held my trees, and covered in leaves. Trisha is a fae, and has the power to regenerate. This means her cells and body are constantly regenerating and healing herself. She doesn't get fatigued and her cuts/injuries are all healed at the cost of needing to eat lots and lots of food.

Trisha realizes that her body has just healed herself after being shot. After being shot it took her 2 days to heal. Once she is done healing she escapes the forest to reunite with her foster parents. They of course are going a bit crazy, understandably so, but after being abandoned by her mom at age 9 Trisha has her own baggage to work through. Trisha works through her emotional baggage throughout the rest of the book and I truly enjoy seeing her ability to have healthy relationships improve.

As for the rest of the story Trisha is recruited (read blackmailed) into joining a fae task force who are trying to recapture an escaped convict. Working with her team, Trisha learns not everything is as it seems when it comes to the Fae and Fairie (the fae planet with portals to earth). Who should she trust? What is right and wrong? Why does she have amazing powers? You and I will have to read the series to find out!

The Writing: Greutman wrote a perfect angsty teenager with a broken past looking for a family book. Unlike many other angsty books I felt like this one could be read and enjoyed by adults as well. I really enjoyed the suspense written into the book as I didn't necessarily guess all the plot points from the beginning which is a compliment to the writer. I love discovering things instead of guessing the plot from chapter 1. I also really like how Greutman developed the character relationships. You could really feel the love and devotion some of the characters had for each other, as well as the emotional turmoil during different situations.

Romance: Trisha had a boyfriend before the book started and is attracted to a male character or two, but there is no romance in this book. It's all about family here.

Overall Theme and Message: There was a great message of "family is not made by blood but by choice" in this book. I really liked the foster parents and their relationship with Trisha. I also really like that Trisha didn't automatically forgive and forget when someone seriously hurt her. She stood up for herself and her safety throughout the book and I think that's really powerful for people to learn, especially younger audiences.

Recommended Audience: I would recommend this book for those ages 14+. The reason being that there is quite a bit of fighting in the book between supernatural characters. The angst and emotional baggage Trisha deals with also lends me towards feeling this would be better for an older teenage age group.

Things To Keep In Mind: This book deals with parental abandonment, foster parents, the use of guns and swords, and a teenage not communicating well with the parental unit.

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Christy Nicholas

and the storyline doesn’t disappoint. A great addition to the YA fantasy genre

Reviewed in the United States on May 8, 2018

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What is normal when the world as you know it is turned upside down? Trisha discovers this when her boyfriend shoots her one night. Despite this murderous action, she has to work with him on a quest. Luckily, her regeneration ability helps her, despite her enormous appetite afterward. The quest she’s given little choice to participate in results in a moral question she must answer. The characters are intriguing, well-fleshed, and the storyline doesn’t disappoint. A great addition to the YA fantasy genre.

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Timothy R. Baldwin

A great read with a strong female protagonist who has special abilities

Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2019

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Author Cassie Greutman has masterfully crafted a story with an empathetic protagonist named Trisha. Trisha is in the foster system and, after going through several families, is now with Dan and Nina Inza. Though she doesn’t want to admit it, she loves being with them. And this terrifies her because she’s hiding a secret: She’s fae, her mother who abandoned her is fae, and so is her father who she’s never met. But, one thing is for certain, Trisha possesses powerful abilities and that’s why the Faerie Council is seeking her out. They want to take her back to Faerie, train her, and use her for their own ends. Only, she strikes a deal with them that becomes increasingly more difficult to keep: help them track down a fae fugitive and, in return, get to stay with the Inzas.

Gruetman’s world in Regen is built on the premise that two worlds, a faerie world and our world, exist side by side with each other with minimal interaction. It works much like the world created in Rick Riordan’s Heroes of Olympus. If something magical does occur, glamour clouds the eyes of ordinary humans, making them believe they are seeing something else. Much like Riordan’s heroes, Trisha also learns to use her newfound abilities to overcome outside sinister forces. In the process, she makes mistakes that puts her and her family and friends at risk.

However, this is not just another tale of a teenager discovering she has unique abilities that she imperfectly uses in a heroic way. The narrative is uniquely crafted with a protagonist, Trisha, who wrestles with moral and ethical dilemmas related to her newfound friends and family.

If you, or your teen, is looking for a great read with a strong female protagonist, I highly recommend Regent. While the story feels like a stand-alone, I will follow Cassie Greutman in the hopes of seeing her develop this as a series.

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Nice and smooth read

Reviewed in Germany on December 6, 2021

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Good starting book for getting into the series. Laughter and tears, nice twists, interesting personalities. You want to read the next.

joanne paulson

The humanity of fae

Reviewed in Canada on December 26, 2018

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The humanity of fae
When we humans create other worlds and the unusual creatures populating them, we have to understand them on our terms if we are to sympathize with their conflicts. This is something Cassie Greutman gets, like few authors writing in the fantasy YA genre. From the first few pages, we are astonished and moved by Trisha’s plight: she could be, should be, dead. But she’s not. She is fae, and has a remarkable power most of us might, well, kill for. But Trisha is also very human; she craves home, and family, and love. And she will go to remarkable lengths to achieve those things, while also protecting others. No ordinary fae, Trisha. Standing up to remarkable powers, she finds allies and enemies as she follows her own unique path. In addition, Greutman can write one heck of an action scene. The middle of Regen has a pace and grip that will keep you glued to the pages. A very, very good story that is so human, so humane, and so fantastical all at the same time.

AlwaysReading

Very good

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 1, 2019

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I really enjoyed this fantasy tale about a girl living within the foster care system and the secrets she holds.

The writing style and tone were great - fast-paced, snappy and compelling. There were a couple of oddities regarding grammar and some words used (drug instead of dragged and off of instead of just 'off' or 'from' for example) but maybe that is an American thing? Some of the scene descriptions were excellent - the opening scene, for instance...a fabulous hook.

The story was intriguing, the plot sound and the characters believable, despite the fantasy element.

Not all questions were answered, but I wonder if there will be a book two...good if there were.

A recommended read.

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Recommended, YA read.

Reviewed in Australia on May 19, 2018

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Wow. I enjoyed every page – Regen, by Cassie Greutman. I cannot wait to clutch my hands on the next book.
Reading about Tisha and how she has had to keep her family and abilities secret; the poor kid being shuffled from one foster family to another, until Dan and Nina invited her into their home and lives.
Just when she had thought, her life had started to become normal for a teenager, only for Trisha to wake up in the woods covered in blood from being shot. Trisha’s life is never going to be the same, especially when she remembered; it had been her boyfriend pulling the trigger.
We are taken into a world of paranormal, the only question for Trisha is, whom she can really trust, when she is secretly forced to work, side by side with her ex-boyfriend. The one person she had opened up to and trusted.
Trisha meets Cray and Jaden along her journey into the fae world of paranormal. Will their lives ever be the same or will they all end up in the clutches of the Council.
I recommend this book, written by a talented author.

fuzzylogic

Two complicated worlds collide

Reviewed in Canada on June 26, 2018

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The world of the fae is so tricky that most of us would have to be taught in order to work with it--yet our own, which is complicated enough to us, is utterly baffling to them. Enter a special person who is one of them but got raised in our world, and has a unique ability, and you have an adventure.

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