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Sensitive | 
 enlarge | Author: Nina Wright
Publisher: Flux
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 714929
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st. Ed
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 240
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.6
ISBN: 0738711705
EAN: 9780738711706
ASIN: 0738711705
Publication Date: October 1, 2007
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Product Description
Sensitive, the sequel to Homefree, follows sixteen-year-old Easter Hutton through her first weeks at the mysterious Fairless Grove Academy. The academy is the headquarters of Homefree, an agency dedicated to helping teens with paranormal abilities learn how to use their gifts. Easter discovers that in addition to her unusual talents for time travel, astral projection, and invisiblity, she is a Sensitive?someone who can communicate with spirits. Using her paranormal skills, Easter is called upon to settle a two-hundred-year-old misunderstanding while also dealing with her best friend’s mental breakdown, her own forbidden passions, and the whereabouts of her missing mother.
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 Angieville: SENSITIVE November 5, 2008
I ordered a copy of Nina Wright's SENSITIVE and, in a shockingly uncharacteristic move, decided to forego the prequel, Homefree, and just jump right in. I liked the premise. Easter Hutton, her best friend Andrew, and her kinda-sorta boyfriend Cal are sensitives, meaning they have abilities a little left of normal. Andrew can read memories, Cal practices psychokinesis, and Easter is capable of astral projection. Translation: her spirit can travel through time and space without leaving her body. All three of them are part of Homefree--an underground organization that educates and trains paranormally minded teens. Fun premise, no? Throw in Easter's rather monumentally maternally challenged alcoholic mother and the mysterious Homefree headmaster Mr. Fairless and it sounds like a fun ride to me.
The thing was the story never let me in. The writing told me that Easter and Cal had the hots for each other and that Andrew was somehow more endangered by his abilities than the other two, but those things never really hit me. I never felt the passion or danger. I feel like lately I'm always asking for longer books. I'm not sure why this is the case. It takes a lot to create fully developed characters and have them burst forth on the page for your reader, living and breathing and calling out each other's names. Some authors are able to do this on a small page count. Their stories leave me satisfied instead of aching for more. Meg Rosoff, Garret Freymann-Weyr, and Laura Wiess leap to mind. Others simply require more pages. I felt like SENSITIVE could have benefited from a few (maybe 100) more, along with a little more willingness to let the reader in and feel with the characters. At the end of the book, I felt like I'd just gotten home from one of those freshman year college dates with the guy who begins every sentence with the words, "I'm the kind of guy who..."
Stop right there. If you have to tell me, it's all over.
 Sensational December 7, 2007
Sensitive's entrancing cover offers readers a hint of the mysyterious and magical journey they will embark upon with Easter and the Sensitives at Fairless Grove Academy. After reading this book, I cannot visit St. Augustine without rounding a corner expecting to see Easter, Cal, and Andrew or maybe stumbling upon the French restaurant, Astral.
Wright's characters shimmer on the pages in brilliantly written scenes like those between the "two cooks" and "Easter encountering Placida." With the signature witty and fine-edged dialogue Wright is known for, she creates a subculture readers will find enchanting. Putting the book down is not an option once readers enter Easter's world.
Both teens and adults will find Sensitive a fascinating read where the extraordinary subject of people teleporting and astral projecting shares the stage with everyday concerns of fitting-in, personal growth, and self-acceptance.
I for one, hope that Wright continues to pen books on Easter's journey to explore and master her "gifts." No doubt the book would easily make the transition to a screenplay for Hollywood, and would have quite a following.
Scarier than ghosts December 6, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The Sensitives have extra-sensory powers, distracting enough to create a nuisance. But behind the compelling front cover illustration is a mystery that can only be peeled back layer by layer. Sensitive Easter Hutton can rely on her mother to interfere long-distance with her school, job, friends Andrew and Cal. Easter condemns Nikki as a bad mom, alcoholic, drug abuser, runaway wife spiraling down into an oblivion she deserves, in the belief she'll never learn her lesson. In legendary "ghostville" St. Augustine, Florida, Easter finds a compassionate and similarly Sensitive grandmother who can reveal to her what her mom never could. A rite-of-passage tale of an unusual heroine and a return coup de grace by HOMEFREE author, Nina Wright.
Typical Teens? November 30, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Easter, Cal and Andrew are typical teens with a twist. In addition to normal teenage angst, they all have paranormal powers which they are not sure how to use. In a way they are feeling their way into the world as typical teenagers do, but they have an added dilemna in finding how to use the confusing gifts they have which, up until this point, they all thought made them crazy, and anything but typical. Now they have found that they are not alone in their differences. They are on a journey to maturity together with strange advisers to help them learn to use the abilities that "normal" teens do NOT have to deal with.
Ms Wright has woven a compelling story that will appeal not only to teenagers, but to anyone who has ever BEEN a teenager.
This sequel to "Homefree" once again takes us into a world that we know, but don't know. We all know the feelings of adolescence that make us know we are different, and insecure, but we don't know how it feels to be able to astralproject, read minds, move objects with our minds, and generally create mayhem on accident. In both novels we are brought into this world, and made to understand how the teens years would feel if you really WERE a "freak", not just thinking you were.
A great read for anyone from 12 to 92!
As spooky as the cover suggests! November 26, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is way more than a ghost story, but that's where it begins. Nina Wright connects the suspenseful and frightening with the humorous. Elements that seem completely unrelated convincingly and compellingly answer our questions in the end. I would love to see more books in this series, but if this is the last Homefree story, it does leave me satisfied.
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