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The Plantation Kindle Edition

by Stella Fitzsimons (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars 328 ratings
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When the light of the human species vanished, there was a girl... and a spark.

A century has passed since they arrived. Human history has been erased. Children are enslaved on Alien plantations. Some have heard whispers of the existence of a rebel band of humans who roam free in the forests. Most slaves dare not speak of the rebels for fear the mutant guards will grab and make an example of them.

Seventeen-year-old Freya is pulled away in the night not by the mutants, but by her old friend Finn, to join the Saviors, the mythic band of rebel teens. Her bliss fades when she discovers she is the only Savior without a special ability. She is the odd one out, slowly pushing Finn away, defying Damian, the leader of the Saviors, and antagonizing the fierce and beautiful Daphne. In her despair, Freya reaches deep within to discover a dark destiny, a truth so heavy it threatens to destroy her.

Books in the PLANTATION series:

  • The Plantation
  • The Dark Legion
  • The Shadow Empire
  • Beyond the River of Time
  • Rise of the Saviors
  • Plantation Origins
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"The Plantation is unique, I haven't read anything like it. The writing was remarkable, the characters were entertaining, and the storyline was phenomenal."

-- Loves All Things Books, Book Blog

"I rate this book in my top five reads of the year."

-- Wendy Scott, Fantasy Author

"...a very refreshingly fast paced, suspenseful young adult novel."

-- MissyDevoursDelishReads, Book Blog

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The PLANTATION series is now complete and includes The Plantation, The Dark Legion, The Shadow Empire, Beyond the River of Time, Rise of the Saviors, the sequel PLANTATION ORIGINS and the novella Daphne.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00ARMMNS8
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Butterfly Electric Press (December 22, 2012)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 22, 2012
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 855 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 217 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
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Stella Fitzsimons is a bestselling author of urban fantasy and dystopian fiction.

She is the author of "The Plantation" series which includes six novels and one novella. She is currently working on the Urban Fantasy series "Mist Riders".

Stella is a traveler, a passionate reader and an ardent cook. She likes to blend ingredients to create edgy results in both her sci-fi and fantasy fairy tales, and her family cuisine.

She lives in Southern California with her husband, two children and an ever-growing collection of books.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Loved the ending...want more!
Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2012
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Solid narrative, but even better action at the end. Looks to be the first of a series so give us more action in book two! I was able to relate to Freya's frustrations early (Doubt yourself much, Freya?), but the book soars when she gets a little rougher with the aliens and also with the boys. I realize this is teen-driven science fiction, but her repressed romantic feelings left me begging for more until we got a sudden little jolt at the end.

All-in-all I had fun hanging out in the woods with the Saviors. Peter Pan's lost boys meet The Hunger Games with the possibility for a little Twilight-style love triangle. The quality of the writing and editing was unusually tight for a 99 cent book so I had to give this a big thumbs up for execution, the great twist in the end (actually two twists) and how much I want more action/romance in book two now that Freya has her groove on!
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Krysi Joseph aka boekverslaafde
4.0 out of 5 stars One small group of teenagers trying to survive after escaping 'plantations' where they're slaves to an alien race...
Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2015
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Earth is no longer a planet for humans. It is a planet for Aliens, who raise humans to do their work on plantations. They have breeding farms, where the children are raised by their zombie like mothers until the age of seven. Then they are 'harvested' to go work in the plantations. I'm not exactly clear on what work they do on the plantations, it was kinda brushed over briefly in the book and I've forgotten...but there are different plantations for different things, i believe, like technology, medicine, and whatnot.
Some kids are lucky enough to escape the plantations, either by themselves, or with the help of the other escapees, or Saviors as they call themselves. Most of the kids we meet in the book that are saviors all have some sort of special ability...they might have exceptional eyesight, hearing, psychic abilities, able to run fast, or super strength. Those skills were what helped most of the kids escape. The main character, Freya (aka Tick to her closest friend, Finn) is rescued by the saviors a couple years after Finn escapes himself, and meets up with the other saviors. Together they train to fight, and spy on the plantations, trying to find their weaknesses, so they can eventually try to save the children in the other plantations, and try to defeat the aliens. Ah the aliens. There are actually 2 type of aliens in the book, one type, the Slimans are what seem to be basically the body guards to the other type of aliens, referred to just as the Aliens. Slimans are brutally strong, fast, tall and skinny. The Aliens have human like features, are quite small and completely bald. They also seem to have issues with the sun (daylight) making them weaker...
Freya seems to feel like the odd-man-out in the group, her best friend is Finn, and it seems she's only really close to him and not really the others, though she gets along w/ most everyone. She feels like she's not as good as everyone else and is tired of always messing things up. She doesn't have a special ability like everyone else, and it shows. She hates training because she isn't as good as everyone else and they all push her too hard, all except Finn that is.
When communications come in and they have a chance to actually DO something with all the training they've been doing, she's excited and nervous at the same time. When she gets word that she's not allowed to participate in the actual fighting she gets really upset, and to top it off, her friendship with Finn seems to be on the rocks. He's keeping secrets and getting angry with her all the time (not to say she doesn't always deserve it)
But when things go from odd, to bad to extremely messed up, will she have the courage to stand up for what she believes? Will she chose the right path?
The path she chooses will end with devastating consequences....but then, if she chose the other path, they wouldn't have discovered she might just have a special ability no one expected.

This is a pretty good book with a great story line, and the characters are for the most part pretty well rounded. You get to know them better throughout the book...Except Damian...you learn a little bit about him, but there's something at the end of the book that just doesn't fit in with his character or the story for that matter.

There is some definite need for a good editor in this book. COMMAS ARE OUR FRIENDS, PEOPLE. And there are some sentences where it changes from past/present tense mid-sentence, or has the wrong tense all together. Also some sentences are worded weird where you have to read it a couple times to get it to make sense. or have extra words that aren't needed...and a couple sentences that are redundant...like when Freya is talking to Finn:

(Finn says) "Is it okay that I am glad you will be out of harm's way?" "I can't believe you just said that." I honestly cannot believe he just said that

Well, we got that you couldn't believe he just said that, because you just TOLD Him you couldn't believe it. WE BELIEVE YOU.

All in all though, pretty good book, and I've already started the second in the series "The Dark Legion"
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Jcat
3.0 out of 5 stars 3+ Star for adults, probably a 4-Star for Tweens and Teens.
Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2016
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This was a Sci-Fi book with some violence and death, but no strong language or sex scenes. I found the premise to be interesting. Although there are quite a few characters, they do have interesting parts to play in the plot. I did wish for more background and World Building early on, but things in that regard did improve a little throughout the story.

I feel that the book should have been longer in order to accomplish more World Building and character development. This is important for a first book in a series. The Heroine did whine too much, but that's almost expected for this type of book. The action didn't really take place until the end, with the main parts of the book concentrating on the "Savior" members and their current and previous lifestyles. This book ended reasonably well for a 'non-ending' first installment of a series.

Not a bad read, but I'm unsure whether I'll continue with the series.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Planting a different Spin on Alien Invasion
Reviewed in the United States on April 27, 2013
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A different spin on body snatching . Taking children as slaves making them super human but for what they don't know as of yet. As all people should be free to live with loving families they want to be free so some children escape from the plantations. They form a group calling themselves Saviors training for war and believing one day to defeat the Aliens that capture the humans and alter them to their liking.

I enjoyed reading about the young teens coming together coping with problems voting on things as they live and try to defeat the Aliens and stay free. Sometimes decisions are hard and split and people learn from them and grow . I wait for the next book to find out how Finn and Freya continue to grow as Damien leads them with the new powers they now know Freya seems to have.
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Beauty and brains
4.0 out of 5 stars The Alien Apocylpse is here and the fate of humans rests on the slim shoulders of teenagers
Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2013
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Aliens have taken over Earth and they have enslaved humans and bred their own super strong alien/human hybred to be their jailers. Freya/Tick doesnt know where she fits in with the "Saviors". Ever since she was rescued from the Plantation by her childhood friend Finn who escaped several years bofore, she has never known what she brings to the group. The rag tag band of 12 children led by Damion all have some sort of genetically engineered super power. All except Freya. She's fast and strong but she's also tempermental and headstrong. Not good qualities to have when every action could end your life or the life of someone you love. All that changes the day their camp is overrun with Slimies and Aliens alike. Freya and everyone else realize that this one girl possesses some very unique qualities that will either liberate of bind humans forever. Very well written, I've already read the second book in the series and eagerly await the third. I would highly recommend this series to tween readers and up. Easy to follow, characters you root for (even some of the bad guys) and leaves you thinking...it could really happen.
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Andrea Wahl
3.0 out of 5 stars Schnelle und überraschend gute Geschichte
Reviewed in Germany on October 8, 2015
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Mir hat das Buch gefallen obwohl ich keine Erfahrungen mit dem Genre habe. Ich lese normalerweise reine Fantasy aber für diese Serie mache ich eine Ausnahme und werde bestimmt bald den zweiten Teil der Fantasy/scifi-Reihe lesen.
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Nickolas Kolokythas
5.0 out of 5 stars Cool book for all ages!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 29, 2012
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This book had me at Rabbit and Biscuit, two funny, original characters with special abilities that you will love. The book starts by introducing the world as is post-alien-invasion and quickly moves on to define Freya's bond with her childhood friend Finn now that they have both escaped the alien plantation and are members of the Saviors, a band of rebel teens that includes Rabbit and Biscuit. The story builds very nicely to reach a high crescendo that will leave you breathless. And possibly heartbroken. A definite page turner with a brain and a heart. Luckily, there's more books to follow.
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martha black
1.0 out of 5 stars Little boring for me
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 17, 2015
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Took me a while to get into this book and I even skipped some pages .I hated the main character. I Won't be reading anymore from this series
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