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Boundary Crossed
- Boundary Magic, Book 1
- Narrated by: Kate Rudd
- Series: Boundary Magic, Book 1
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Horror
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After her twin sister’s brutal murder, former US Army Sergeant Allison “Lex” Luther vowed to protect her niece, Charlie. So when two vampires try to kidnap the baby, it quickly turns into a fight to the death - Lex’s death, that is.
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- Brandon H.
- 06-20-16
A decent book with an annoying main character
This is a vampire novel, so I understand you have to suspend reality to read it. However, I found the mood and attitude of the main character to be completely unrealistic. I typically love the brash attitude in strong female roles (Mercy Thompson series) but I felt that this character acted more 13 than 30. Often throwing fits and judging situations with a child's demeanor. I am 30 and often found myself saying, a 30 year old would not act like this. The world is very interesting so I finished the book but the narrator ( unrealistic male voices) and main character made it hard.
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- Elizabeth Barlow
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Can't wait for the sequel.
I legitimately love urban fantasy novels, but for the past ten years the genre has been plagued with bad book after another.
Boundary Crossed is shockingly one of the few books that break up the pattern.
The characters in the novel are fantastic and what makes a standard urban fantasy plot of a hidden world of magic stand out. Each character has his or her voice, the character interactions well written, and by the end of the book, you got a general idea how the main cast will react to certain things.
Lex is fantastic main character. She has a healthy dose of flaws, and her personal demons, which for a main female character in this genre is a rarity. I wasn't expecting to like her as much as I did. She's someone I'd like to hang out with. Her relationship with one of the male lead is probably the best I've seen in a while as well.
The performance was well done. I hope she comes back to read the second book.
The story isn't ground breaking as I said, it's standard. But how its written is what it gets a 4/5 from me.
I definitely recommend it.
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- JTF
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Deceptively Well Written with Great Narration
Melissa F. Olson is a deceptively good story teller. Boundary Crossed comes across as a fun, light, “beach” read, and it is. More often than not, when we categorize a book this way we also mean there’s no real meat, little in the way of character and that it certainly doesn’t address is compelling issues. Nicely enough, Ms. Olson brings all of that to her “fun” read. So, it’s good story telling without being a difficult story to follow. There’s reflection without much angst (hey, every story needs a little angst), plot without a bunch of artificial plot mechanisms and embedded values without it being a “Message” book. In other words, it’s pretty near the epitome of what a light, summer read ought to be and when we settle for light reads that do less, we’re, well, settling. The book’s the story and setting seem so natural as to have been effortless creations. That’s a little like saying Fred Astaire’s dancing appears effortless and, perhaps not gravity-free, “gravity–lite.” It takes well-honed craft to leave that impression.
Let me step back a bit; the book’s protagonist is Allison “Lex” Luther (OK a little cheesy wink to Superman). She is working at a convenience store when a couple come in for diapers. However, the baby for whom they’re shopping turns out to be Lex’s niece Charlie (daughter of her dead sister Sam). Oh, and they’re vampires. As you can imagine, chaos and danger ensues. It appears that she is stabbed to death but survives and with that survival discovers the world’s not as she once thought. Along with vampires, there are werewolves and witches, of which she’s one.
So here’s a girl who has powers of which she was unaware, living in a world with creatures she recently considered merely mythic and thrust into a world of danger and intrigue. Sound familiar? Maybe, but the devil is in the details and the execution. Ms. Olson’s protagonist is in her early thirties, not a teen. While her reaction to this newly discovered world is initial shock, she doesn’t panic or step into super-mode. he deals with it as a former Army Sargent who has been deployed in Iraq, shocked but functional. In fact, one of the many qualities about this book I love is the plausible way events unfold and the characters interact with them. These characters and this world are believable from the initial introduction to the world to the way it works. Lex spends much of the book recovering from constantly feeling behind-the-eight-ball yet coping. Wouldn’t you? The interaction of the characters with Lex and each other seem to fit. There are few cookie-cutter characters or relationships. It’s all very down to earth, which, if you come to think about it, is a weird thing to say about paranormal world but one of the best compliments you could give.
While I went back and forth between the Kindle and the Audible versions of the story (using that delightful bit of magic, Whispersync for Voice), I mostly listened to it. I did this because Kate Rudd is the narrator. In fact, I was drawn to the book because Kate Rudd was the narrator rather than my usual find-the-book-and-hope-the-narrator-is-good mode. (For some other great books she narrates see, The Mad Scientist’s Daughter, The Fault in Our Stars, Timebound and Time’s Edge). I hadn’t read anything by Ms. Olson previously or knew much about her. I’ve read and like paranormal/urban fantasy, but it’s not a genre that naturally draws me in. So, while I’m a pretty big fan of Ms. Rudd’s narration, I think it was a particularly wonderful bit of serendipity that has her reading this book. Her voice is grounding. It lends itself towards projecting genuine characters and a rooted normalcy even in the least normal settings. So the genuine nature of Ms. Olson’s world and characters was only enhanced by Ms. Rudd’s performance of her book. If you like audiobooks, I highly recommend buying that version for this book.
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- Liokee
- 03-02-16
Interesting story
What did you like best about Boundary Crossed? What did you like least?
The story was interesting, though it felt like it sort of meandered in some places. I liked it well enough that I'm going to read the second book.
How did the narrator detract from the book?
The performance by Kate Rudd was adequate, but I found that I had a hard time getting past her inflection. The actual narration was pretty dry, but she perked up when using character's voices. Her crisp pronunciation, while nice in other settings, distracted me quite a bit as a narrator.
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- Mike
- 05-09-15
Starts well and keeps getting better
"Boundary Crossed" starts well and keeps getting better. It opens with:
"The third time I died was early on a Monday morning, a week after Labor Day"
The person speaking is Ex-Army Sergeant Alexandre "Lex" Luther. Working the late shift at a convenience store in Boulder Colorado, she finds a couple arguing about nappies in the baby aisle and realizes that the baby the nappies are for does not belong to them. The ensuing fight and its dramatic conclusion pack a punch that sets the pace for the rest of the novel.
"Boundary Crossed" is set in the Old World universe as the Scarlett Bernard trilogy "Dead Spots", "Trail of Dead" and "Hunter's Trail", occupied by vampires, werewolves, witches and nulls. There are cross-over events and characters between the Bernard trilogy and "Boundary Crossed" but, as Lex starts with no knowledge of the Old World, you don't have to read the Scarlett Bernard books first.
With "Boundary Crossed", Melissa Olsen has hit the turbo button on her Old World series. Lex is a much more action-oriented main character than Scarlett is. She starts by attacking two vampires with nothing more than her bare hands and a heavy jar of baby-food and moves on to using automatic weapons and kick-ass magic.
I read the whole book in a day during two (very long) car rides across Germany and the time just flew by. Part of the impact of the book comes from being read by Kate Rudd, one of my favorite narrators. She packs energy into her performance, getting the accents right, keeping the pace up and bringing Lex alive. The rest comes from the character of Lex herself. Melissa Olsen has created a plausible action-oriented main character who also has enough vulnerabilities and enough connections to real life to make her sympathetic and convincing.
The cast of characters around Lex gives a different take on the Old World than the previous books. Boulder is a Vampire town. It has witches but werewolves have been "purged" from the State. Both the lead Witch and the lead Vampire are strong, scary people but neither is monstrous. Lex has an affinity for the Vampire world and quickly becomes entangled in it. Where Scarlett held herself at the edge of the Old World, Lex pushes steadily into its heart.
I won't go into the plot because part of the fun is finding out who Lex is and what she's capable of but by the end of the book, Lex is set up to good deeper into the Old World and to cross paths with the characters from the Scarlett Bernard trilogy. I'm already looking forward to reading about what happens to her.
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- Mario
- 05-03-15
Not as Good but Not a Carbon-Copy
This is Melissa F Olson's new series set in the same universe as her Scarlett Bernard series and it takes places after the last Scarlett Bernard book.
With this being a new series in the same universe as her previous series the first question one has to ask is "is it as good", and sadly for me the answer is no.
Now first I want make one thing clear. This IS a good book and good start to a new series. BUT it is just not as good as the the last series.
One of the things that are different is the narrative,
In the Scarlett Bernard books we get two different points of view in two different writing styles. The first was a first person narrative from titular female character and the second was an subjective third person narrative from the male lead character.
Here it is a first person narrative from the female lead although out. Now if that is a good or bad thing is up to YOU! For me it left out a major part of what I liked about the previous series.
Now as far as the characters go Ms. Olson again gives us genuine well rounded characters.
Lex is just as developed as Scarlett but is still a completely different person. That being said Lex is not as enjoyable as Scarlett.This is impart because is that unlike Scarlett Lex does not have the supportive friends to show her more light-hearted side which makes from a more somber story.
As for the narrator, I will say Kate Rudd does a good job just not as good as Amy McFadden did in the Scarlett series.
If you are a fan of the Scarlett Bernard series than this is book is worth checking out but keep in mind this is a different story.
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- K.
- 10-24-17
OMG.
I've been searching for such a thing FOR YEARS. If you like anything that resembles urban fantasy you've gotten listen to this! (Hello to LKH' Anita Blake, Charlaine Harris, Nalini Singh, Dannika Dark fans...). It's well written, flows easily and NO UNNECESSARILY COMPLICATED writers' trick. Weirdly enough the world building seems both effortless and rich. Highly recommend.
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- Karissa Eckert
- 09-17-17
Fun and well done UF
This is the first book in the Boundary Magic trilogy by Olson. I have had this urban fantasy on my TBR pile for a while and I am happy I finally picked it up to read. This was a very enjoyable read about a ex-military woman who is trying to eke out a living working at a convenience store. Everything changes for her the night she intercepts a kidnapping and finds out that she's not as human as she thought she was.
I listened to this on audiobook and thought it was well done. It’s one I would recommend listening to if you are a fan of audiobooks.
I really enjoyed the heroine in this book. She is struggling with some PTSD and trying to make it in the "normal" world. I loved that she had so many fears and doubts but constantly strove to work through them and do what was right. She also has a good sense of humor and is very dedicated to her family throughout.
Some of this book is very typical investigative urban fantasy: there are werewolves, witches, and vampires and our heroine runs herself ragged. However these more typical elements were nicely offset by a heroine with a unique background and a supportive extended family.
Overall I really enjoyed this. While it wasn't the best urban fantasy series I've ever read, it is well written and engaging and has some unique elements to it. I plan on continuing with the series.
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- BikeVON
- 09-30-15
Entertaining
Nothing original. A female protagonist,,Lex with fighting skills who powers increase in depth, breathe and strength as the story progress. A love affair that is suggested with a possible future. A cause to die for, which is the life of her niece. A loving tight knit family whose fault is wanting to help Lex when all she really needs is space.
An urban fantasy with the usual group of characters, suspects, heroes, vampires, werewolves, witches and in fighting between and within groups.Except for the voice of the narrator, which was annoying the book did not offer any thing new. Some of the events are predictable but if you are truly a fan of the gene, it is difficult to provide originality.
Beware, this book does end with a cliff hanger. Use your credit when there is a special on the credits.
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- Brian
- 07-04-16
VERY DISAPPOINTING!
I had to force myself to finish this book. It was very disappointing. The main character is very unlikeable. I was hoping she would go through some interesting character development but instead she remained the same. Her actions are reckless and implausible. She is supposed to be intelligent but her impulsive actions suggest otherwise. It's ridiculous. In addition, she acts like an immature 16 year old girl when she is in her early thirties. On a more positive note, the plot is quite interesting.
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- Mcd
- 01-25-16
gripping and outstanding
loved it just what i've come to expect from this author can't wait for the next book
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- Tazmin
- 01-24-16
A good read, a little predictable though.
I found I really enjoyed the characters in the book and felt there was a good variety but felt that it was very predictable and there could have been a little more excitement added to the mix. on that more I still really enjoyed the book.
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- J
- 05-30-15
very good
M F Olson writes fantastic stories and this is another one. Lex is a very interesting character and look forward to further development in the next book, which I hope we do not have to wait to long for. highly recommended
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- Fred Jones
- 08-12-20
Excellent story great narration
An excellent story with great characters well written creating an intelligent and believable world, wonderfully narrated. A greAt start to a new series I have already bought the next one
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- JuttaS
- 03-11-19
Excellent story, brill characters, fab narrator
I have never listened to Kate Rudd before but something about her voice allowed me to settle straight into the book. She pulled me straight into the story and I was easily able to tell who was who by just hearing them. Brilliant.
I loved this story and especially the characters. Watching Lex figure out what is going on around her and reacting to it had me sucked in and listening avidly. I was a little sad when it ended but then I realised that it's the first of a series....can't wait to listen to the next one!
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- Ms. Tanya Cooper
- 04-02-18
Great book
I loved this book and found it very easy to listen to and the narrator Kate Rudd is very good I have Listened to this book several times. Would recommend this audiobook to everyone
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- Teddy
- 02-16-17
Engaging and exciting
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
I'd happily recommend this to a friend - it's a nicely written, beautifully read and engaging story.
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- LeftieNix
- 07-20-16
excellent story
I loved every minute of this story. I found the narration to be good too. I'll be downloading the next in the series just as soon as I get to somewhere with wi-fi
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- Pamala Barnett
- 07-06-18
Absolutely hard to put down
Loved it! Well written and excellently narrated. Can't wait to read book 2. Well done!
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- Naedrax17
- 02-22-20
Great story
Kate Rudd did a fantastic job as narrator.
It took about an hour for me to get into it, but was so glad I stuck with it. Can't wait to see where this series goes.
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- Ashley Macdonald
- 01-20-20
Will always love this series
Second time through and I still love it. Will always recommend it. Keen to see what Mellissa does more with the series. Also Kate Rudd does the characters so much justice. 10/10
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- Amazon Customer
- 11-07-18
Un put downable
Brilliant story. Fast paced. Talented narrator. I need the next one! Well worth listening to.