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Lost (The Caelian Cycle Book 1) Kindle Edition

by Donnielle Tyner (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.2 out of 5 stars 163 ratings
In the final days of WWI, a meteor crashed into Earth, releasing a mist that forever changed the DNA of all exposed.  One hundred years later, humanity is divided between Norms, and Caelians, whose mutated DNA awakened dormant Talents. Hated by many Norms who are jealous of their powerful Talents, Caelians strive to find safety in an often-hostile world.

This is Sadie's world. Orphaned at birth, Sadie is the only Caelian at St. Vincent's without a Talent.  Her already lonely life at the orphanage is shattered when her boyfriend is murdered- the victim of an anti-Caelian hate crime. Struggling to find her place in the world, Sadie meets Kian, a fellow Caelian whose very presence makes her feel strangely alive.

As Sadie begins to uncover the secrets of her past, her rare latent Talent is exposed and she finds herself on the run with Kian and her friends, hunted by a dangerous egomaniac determined to use her power to establish Caelian dominance. Sadie faces a choice: hide and stay lost, or accept her new reality and fight.


The debut series from Donnielle Tyner, The Caelian Cycle is a new addition to the young adult action science fiction genre, following in the tradition of Bella Forrest, Dima Zales, Amy A. Bartol, and Beth Revis.
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    The Caelian Cycle
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  5. Publication date
    19 Jun. 2015
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Donnielle Tyner has held down many jobs, but never found satisfaction until she became a freelance writer and stay at home mom. She’s from North Texas and enjoys her chickens, garden, and most of all her children. LOST is her debut novel. Watch for the second installment of The Caelian Cycle in the fall of 2015. Visit my website for updates: donnielletyner.com

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00YFPW3N8
  • Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ 19 Jun. 2015
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ 1st
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1.9 MB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 209 pages
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  • Book 1 of 3 ‏ : ‎ The Caelian Cycle
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Hello! I’m Donnielle Tyner, writer of Science Fiction for young and new adults, reader of just about anything that catches my interests – mainly books with science fiction, paranormal/ fantasy, and romantic themes, and lover of science, tabletop games, anime, comic books, and crude humor.

I grew up in north Texas on a cattle ranch and although I have travelled extensively, I cannot seem to find myself living more than an hour away from where I was raised. Growing up, I was always the weird girl in school and luckily, I never lost my ability to always be the weirdest one in the room. You will always find me making inappropriate jokes and gigglesnorting at every double entendre.

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  • Margaret Chadwick
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Read
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 September 2015
    Author: Donnielle Tyner
    Title: Lost: The Caelian Cycle
    Genre: Science Fiction

    Synopsis: During WW1 a meteorite crashed releasing a mist that changed the DNA of all who were exposed. One hundred years has passed and society is divided between the norms and the Caelians whose changed DNA awakened dormant gifts called talents. Sadie is over it. She's an orphan, her boyfriend was murdered and she's the only Caelian at St. Vincent's without a talent. Once she turns 18 there will be no place for her in the world. That is until a chance encounter with Kian, a Caelian boy who makes her feel uncomfortable and alive at the same time. Secrets of her past are uncovered and Sadie's latent, rare talent is exposed. With great power comes the hunters hired by an egomaniac who wants to use Sadie's power to establish Caelian dominance. On the run with Kian and her friends, Sadie will have to decide whether to hide or fight. Will Sadie accept her new reality or will she stay lost?

    Review: This is an excellent book and I just was gripped from the first line. I could not stop reading this book and I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys a good sci-fi story. This was a gripping story that I would happily read again and again and I would probably buy the physical copy of this book.

    Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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  • E.A.Turley- Goodreads Author
    4.0 out of 5 stars This is a nice little storyline that has interesting characters
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 April 2016
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    This is a nice little storyline that has interesting characters. It is a cliffhanger ending, but book two is already out if you want to buy it.
    Sadie is a Caelian that has no talent (special ability) All the rest of her friends at the orphanage have fire, siren and invisibility talents, to name but a few. But hers hasn't surfaced; it's there, she can feel it under the surface of her skin but it just won't come out. She doesn't know what it is.
    Her eighteenth birthday is approaching and she's only just getting over the grief of having to watch her boyfriend being shot and killed in front of her when her friends decide that she has to start getting out again. She sees an intense young man there who wants to know who she is, but she doesn't actually know. She was brought to the orphanage as a baby when her mother died in childbirth and she doesn't know who her father was. The man, Kian, starts stalking her, he always seems to be there and eventually he tells her who her parents were and what happened to them. She runs from him, upset, and her talent erupts in her causing chaos. It is an undiscovered talent that no one has ever heard of before.
    Now her grandfather gets to hear of her existence and comes after her, which is the last thing she needs, He wants to use her talent himself, to bring her into his family and use her as a weapon to kill others. But just how far will he go and who else will he kill to get to Sadie?
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  • Florentine
    5.0 out of 5 stars Peachy Review: Lost by Donnielle Tyner
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 August 2015
    Original review on my blog: http://readiculously-peachy.blogspot.nl/
    My Review:

    I received a copy from the author to read and review in return.

    YES! I can finally give away my 5-stars again! Finally a book which completely thrilled and excited me! This book was a proper addiction, and as I had mentioned in my previous Teaser Tuesday, if it weren't for my full time job, this book would have been finished within a day! I absolutely loved everything this book had to offer.It had such a nice flow to it, and everything that was described in the book was done in such an immaculate and pleasant way which never at any point left me bored and longing for more.

    The story starts up with full excitement from the very first page. The reader is engulfed with mystery where a dystopian world is introduced with a population split between Norms ('normal' people) and Caelians. Caelians are almost like humans but can have physical differences (like distinct and unusual skin, hair, eye color) and have an extra spark to them, in fact called a Talent. This Talent developed when a meteorite hit Rome during the WW1 and soldiers were infected by its mist. The Talent has been continually passed down to their children and so on. Each Talent is unique and personally bonded to human's essence; so if one we're to lose their Talent in any way, they would die.

    And in comes Sadie, our protagonist. She is absolutely fabulous, in my opinion. She is my ideal protagonist! She is a no nonsense, to the point, brave and believable character. What I love so much about her is that when an issue arises, she addresses it immediately; when something is a mystery in her head, she gets straight to the point and asks valid and valuable questions. Since the book is written in her perspective, it made the book such an easy and fast read.

    Despite Sadie's suffering (through the murder of her boyfriend and her lost feeling of not having found her Talent at the age of 17) she possesses amazing strong characteristics, such as bravery and perverseness. Also with the help of her awesome friends, Rebecca, Madison, John, Michael and Lacy and Kian, who all on their own hold magnificent Talents, Sadie crawls more and more out of her shell and let's the adventures begin. The group together are completely genuine an endearing. From the very beginning I had a deep connection with the group, as if they were my own friends, and I found myself laughing, being excited and crying along with them throughout the entire book.

    The dystopian world which Ms. Tyner creating is so refreshing. Yes their is a division and partial discrimination between the two groups, but the freedom which Sadie has, being a Caelian, is very original and actually quite pleasantly unexpected. Most of the dystopian related books I have read are societies where the population, or part of the population, is (strictly) restricted to certain things. Other than the Caelian's having to stay alert due to some Norms not agreeing with their being or ways, they have quite the 'normal' life. Until... things start to alter and shift in Sadie's world and she finally discovers her fascinating but powerful and dangerous Talent...

    This book just left me consistently on the edge of my seat and I fell head over heels with all of the characters. Madison is such a spunky and cool character, Rebecca ever so smart and lovable, John super comical, Michael and Lacy so familiar and genuine, and Kian... Sadie's mysterious crush... he is just absolutely AWESOME!

    I really do recommend this book to everyone who loves a great YA dysopian and paranormal book! This book has it all, and I literally can't WAIT for Ms. Tyner to come out with her sequel! I miss the characters and their world already so please, Ms. Tyner, haste yourself!! :D
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  • Danii
    4.0 out of 5 stars This book was creative and a good start to a series of books
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 December 2015
    This book was creative and a good start to a series of books. Lost is about an unordinary orphan girl called Sadie. She doesn’t know much about her family but she has managed to find her own alternative one, made up of other orphans.
    The book is set 100 years after the world is exposed to radiation from a meteorite changing DNA of the people affected. The world is divided into two sets of humans, those affected and those who escaped exposure. The affected have gifts sort of like super powers.
    Sadie hasn’t discovered her talent yet and is wondering if she will ever gain her skill. The key to unlocking her mystery lies with her past but maybe there is more to her orphanage origin than she thought.
    I would recommend this book to fans of the girl in the box series. This book is a Solid 4 stars.
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  • Manie Kilian
    5.0 out of 5 stars Raising fury
    Reviewed in the United States on 22 April 2017
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    There is little better than a good fight to release stress. Sadie finds herself in a number of very stressful situations. First her boyfriend died. Then she is about to graduate from the Caelian orphanage without having evinced any sign of having a talent, like any other Caelian. A hot young private eye, Kian, also affects her emotions and threatens to have her hormones rage wild. When she does demonstrate a talent, it's a doozy and very unique. Suddenly everybody that is anybody wants her and events escalate violently around her.
    Ms Tyner spins a dramatic tale of a world on edge and more so between those with talent and those without. The characters are well defined and the teen angst and uncertainty well portrayed in a very unstable society. The story line is taut and suspenseful.
    I simply loved it all. Well done!
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  • Adriana Hunter
    4.0 out of 5 stars Very good
    Reviewed in the United States on 2 May 2017
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    This is a very good YA story, but depressing. The characters were appealing and I was looking forward to the continuation of the story in the second book.

    I don't know what happened. This book was well edited, but the second book has so many fundamental errors that I gave up reading it. I urge the author to edit the second book asap. This series has a lot of potential.
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  • Mekaralyn
    5.0 out of 5 stars Can't wait to get started on the rest!
    Reviewed in the United States on 27 September 2017
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    I rarely leave reviews and even more rarely buy the sequels to the first book; but I loved this one so much that bought the box set!
    There are some editing errors which are easily overlooked. Aside from that, this is a fantastic read! Tyner has created an immersive world with beautiful imagery. The main character development was expertly done and makes you fall in love with her. I can't wait to dive into the other books! I recommend this book to everyone who loves YA fantasy. Nice job!
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  • BellaT
    5.0 out of 5 stars Loved it!
    Reviewed in the United States on 12 September 2017
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    The Caelian Cycle reminds me of The Chronicles of Kerrigan by WJ May (which is also a great series!). The magic, the drama, and the action keep you on the edge of your seat waiting for the next piece of the story. The loss of loved ones and friends, makes it more real. Having a nemesis gives our heroine a goal to work towards. All the different aspects of the story in Lost, come together to create a story worth reading!
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  • K. Kumar
    3.0 out of 5 stars Lost
    Reviewed in the United States on 17 July 2015
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    Lost, by Donnielle Tyner, is story about Sadie and her experiences as a Caelian orphan and her struggle with discovering her "talent". The book begins as Sadie is not only struggling with finding her talent, but is also dealing with the loss of her boyfriend, Liam. She eventually discovers her talent and becomes a target for it. Another interesting layer to the story was her relationship with Kian and the "norms", which are people who do not have talent.

    Overall, I felt the premise of the story was compelling and it drew me in from the start. I particularly liked the parts describing the mist after WWI that changed people's DNA and caused some people to have "talents", while those who did not have talents were just normal people, or "norms". It was fascinating to read about the tensions between the norms and the talents and the different families that were aligned with each side. I think this was the best part of the story, and I wished there was more back story about this.

    I struggled a bit with the author's writing style. At first, I was drawn into the story, but later it felt like a lot of the story was being detailed through exposition and it was hard to stay engaged at times. Also, some of the descriptions in the story were challenging for me. This is an example: "Guilt poured over me like boiling oil. I cringed as the joy and hope melted away, replaced by the sour taste of guilt, and a heavy pit of remorse opened in my chest, stealing my breath." A lot the descriptions were written in this style and I had a hard time trying to decipher some of the symbolism.

    This is not a typical genre (teen/sci fi/fantasy) I would read, and that might be part of the reason I struggled with the story. I think the author has a good imagination and I hope she continues the series.
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