Prism

Name: Prism
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Faye Kellerman
ISBN: 9780061902420

Author: Faye Kellerman

Narrator: Jenna Lamia

Unabridged: 6 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 06/23/2009

Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Action & Adventure, Social Themes, Mystery & Detective

Synopsis

Kaida Hutchenson isn't exactly psyched for the class trip to Carlsbad Caverns. Fourteen hours in a van with preppy jock Zeke Anderson and high school loner Joy Tallon? No, thank you. But when a tragic and explosive accident turns the journey into a nightmare, Kaida would give anything to be back on the road. Stumbling at midnight through the unforgiving desert, Kaida, Zeke, and Joy take refuge in an abandoned cave . . . until the world goes from pitch black to blinding. The next thing Kaida knows, she's back home in California and everything is just as it was. Or is it? Now Kaida must band together with Zeke and Joy in hopes of making it back to the reality she remembers . . . and surviving the one she's fallen into. New York Times-bestselling author Faye Kellerman teams up for the first time with her teen daughter Aliza Kellerman to deliver this breathlessly suspenseful paranormal thriller.

About Faye Kellerman

Mystery author, Faye Kellerman, not only writes amazing, best-selling mysteries, but is married to famous author, Jonathan Kellerman. The pair of authors is the only married couple to have been on The New York Times best seller list at the same time. An awesome accomplishment for sure. And, to make it even better, their oldest child, Jesse Kellerman is a best-selling novelist and award winning playwright. Their youngest, a daughter, Aliza Kellerman, co-wrote Prism, a novel for young adults, with her mother. Keeping it in the family.

Faye Kellerman's early history is a very interesting one. She actually received a B.A. in mathematics, and then earned her Doctorate of Dental Surgery. Even though she fully intended to be a dentist, she never practiced even one day in the dental profession. She first became a housewife and mother, then developed her writing career.

Faye Kellerman has well over twenty million copies of her novels in circulation. The Decker/Lazarus thrillers are among her most successful works. They include such titles as: Sacred and Profane; Milk and Honey; Day of Atonement; Justice; Prayers for the Dead, and many others. She has also received awards for her collection of short stories. As if all that writing and creating were not enough, she also has hobbies of gardening, sewing, and jogging. She has four children, and lives in Los Angeles and Santa Fe.

Upon being asked how an educated Dentist becomes an accomplished, award winning author, she said it was... a desire for justice, a suspicious nature, an overactive imagination, and of course, a penchant for the bizarre.

Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by Ava on 2010-08-13 16:47:51

This book should not have Faye Kellermans name any where on it. I did not enjoy a word on the lst page and that's as far as I got.

Goodreads review by Cait on July 15, 2010

I have mixed feelings about PRISM. I definitely enjoyed the story, but it could have had so much more to it. It had some great action, and interesting characters, but I found it a little lacking. First, this plot has absolutely amazing potential, but just didn’t deliver for me. Things felt rushed and......more

Goodreads review by Ivy on February 02, 2012

I'd put this one at a thoroughly resounding "meh." It was entertaining for the most part, though I did find myself skimming at some times, and I wouldn't consider the time I spent reading it (only a couple hours, I'd wager, spread over a few train rides and dull waits in lines) a waste. I wasn't too......more

Goodreads review by James on August 25, 2009

I've never read anything by any of the Kellermans, but with a weakness for science-fiction-lite and alternate-reality scenarios, really, how could I pass this one up? I liked, in view of current events especially, the scenario of a world without health care. Immediacy, I guess. Never a huge fan of fi......more

Goodreads review by Booknut on June 13, 2012

Brilliant book about three teens who manage to stumble into a parallel universe where the theory of evolution and natural selection is taken a little too seriously. In others words, those who get sick will get better through natural means, medicine is banned, and if they don't survive than that mean......more

Goodreads review by Heather on September 09, 2012

Read more reviews here! 2.5 stars Kaida, Zeke and Joy are on a field trip- the only three in a van with their teacher- when it crashes in the desert. They take shelter from the rain in a cave, where they fall into a pit and wander into an alternate universe. It's just like their own, except that there......more