Release Day: Cracked Open by Susan Kaye Quinn

Happy Release Day!

Cracked Open

Cracked Open by Susan Kaye Quinn
Series: Mindjack Series #5
ebook, 237 pages
Published July 15, 2017 by Susan Kaye Quinn

Zeph always knew he was a weapon. He didn’t count on being a spy.

But he made a dangerous bargain with the Director of the Jacker Technologies Division of DARPA—he’d let Wright test his mutant mindjack ability if she’d release his parents. Simple. Occasionally painful. And the screams of his victims fill his nightmares. But it will be worth it as long as she can’t crack open his head and find out his sister, with her super-surge jack-ability, is still alive. And if his parents are finally set free.

Once that happens, he’s gone. Even if it means giving up everything he’s just now getting back. A home. Friends. A girl who believes in peace and love even when the world is falling apart.

But as the shock of assassinations and bombings and hate killings continue to pull at the threads that hold society together, Wright hands him a mission he can’t possibly complete. If he does, it will tear everything apart. If he doesn’t, he’ll lose everyone he loves.

Sometimes being a powerful weapon is the most dangerous thing of all.

The bestselling Mindjack Series continues, diving deep into a world of mindreaders and mindjackers where being different means staying hidden… or struggling to stay alive.

MINDJACK SERIES—Check them out here on Goodreads!
Open Minds (Book One)
Closed Hearts (Book Two)
Free Souls (Book Three)
Locked Tight (Book Four)
Cracked Open (Book Five)
Mindjack Short Story Collection (Novella Box Set)
Book 6 coming soon

 

Congrats to Susan 

on the release of book #5 in the Mindjack Series, 

Cracked Open!

I love this series and can't wait to read this one!

About the author 

Susan Kaye Quinn is a rocket scientist turned speculative fiction author who now uses her PhD to invent cool stuff in books. Her works range from young adult science fiction to adult future-noir, with side trips into steampunk and middle grade fantasy. Her bestselling novels and short stories have been optioned for Virtual Reality, translated into German, and featured in several anthologies.

She writes full-time from Chicago, inventing mind powers and dreaming of the Singularity.

Chat with her about our coming robot overlords on Facebook.

Find all of Susan's books on Amazon

Click here for a FREE story!

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Release Day! Locked Tight by Susan Kaye Quinn

Happy Release Day!

Locked Tight

Locked Tight by Susan Kaye Quinn
Series: Mindjack Series #4
Print and ebook, 265b pages
Published April 17, 2017 by Susan Kaye Quinn

In a world filled with mindreaders, being a mindjacker is a good way to end up dead. 

And Zeph is no ordinary jacker.

He can break open the toughest minds—or lock the weakest ones—but that just makes him a weapon every jacker Clan wants to control. To keep his family of mindreaders safe, Zeph does what his Clan leader says and tries to shut out the screams—but when jackers are revealed to the world, he has no choice but to hug his kid sister goodbye and leave home.

Passing for a reader is something Zeph does well, but when readers start changing into jackers and his family disappears, Zeph must return to a city filled with jackers who hate him, trick a mindware CEO into helping him, avoid a girl who knows him too well, and spy on the most powerful jacker in the state.

All without dying or revealing his abilities—or being caught in the firestorm of hate between jackers and readers that’s threatening to pull the world apart.

The bestselling Mindjack Series continues with an all new character and a world of mindreaders and mindjackers as you’ve never seen it before. Locked Tight is the first of three Mindjack novels from Zeph’s perspective. (See The Locksmith for Zeph’s origin story.)

MINDJACK SERIES—Check them out here on Goodreads!
Open Minds (Book One)
Closed Hearts (Book Two)
Free Souls (Book Three)
Locked Tight (Book Four)
Mindjack Short Story Collection (Novella Box Set)
Books 5 and 6 coming soon

 

Congrats to Susan 

on the release of book #4 in the Mindjack Series, 

Locked Tight!

I love this series and can't wait to read this one!

About the author 

Susan Kaye Quinn is a rocket scientist turned speculative fiction author who now uses her PhD to invent cool stuff in books. Her works range from young adult science fiction to adult future-noir, with side trips into steampunk and middle grade fantasy. Her bestselling novels and short stories have been optioned for Virtual Reality, translated into German, and featured in several anthologies.

She writes full-time from Chicago, inventing mind powers and dreaming of the Singularity.

Chat with her about our coming robot overlords on Facebook.

Find all of Susan's books on Amazon

Click here for a FREE story!

Connect with Susan 

Website | Facebook | Twitter | Goodreads | Amazon

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The Locksmith (a Mindjack Story) by Susan Kaye Quinn

The Locksmith

A Mindjack Story

The Locksmith by Susan Kaye Quinn

Series: Mindjack 

Published February 9th 2015

When everyone reads minds, a secret is a dangerous thing to keep.

In a world filled with mindreaders, Zeph is a mindjacker who wants to stay hidden—even if it means the cute mindreader in his Latin class is forever out of his reach. He locks and unlocks minds for a ruthless mindjacker Clan in exchange for protection and the chance to have a normal life with his parents and little sister. But when a girl he doesn’t know reveals the existence of mindjackers to the world, Zeph is forced to make a choice: unlock—and ultimately destroy—the mind of a young jacker changeling… or turn his back on everyone he loves.

The Locksmith is a short novella (standalone) in the Mindjack universe. It can be read independently of the other Mindjack stories, in any order. It is 11,000 words (or 44 pages) long.

My thoughts about The Locksmith ~~

I just finished listening to the audiobook version of Open Minds, the beginning of Susan Kaye Quinn's Mindjack series of books, which was great by the way. And then I had the opportunity to read The Locksmith, another part of this series but one that can definitely be read as a standalone story.

The Locksmith gives you, the reader, a very enjoyable but intense taste of what the whole Mindjack series is all about and after reading it, you will want to devour the rest of the stories.

Susan is a master storyteller and uses her incredible imagination to weave wonderful, exciting, and sometimes scary worlds. And I have loved every single one of those worlds of hers. I am always excited when there is another one of her worlds to explore. Take a look for yourself and see if you don't agree.

Recommended Reading Order

Open Minds

Closed Hearts

The Mindjack Origins Collection

Free Souls

Keeper

• Mindjack Trilogy (novels): Open Minds, Closed Hearts, Free Souls
• Mindjack Origins Collection: Mindjack novellas (Mind Games, The Handler, The Scribe), exclusive deleted scenes from Free Souls, flash fiction, and more
• Other novellas: Keeper, The Locksmith

About the author

Susan Kaye Quinn grew up in California, where she wrote snippets of stories and passed them to her friends during class. Her teachers pretended not to notice and only confiscated her stories a couple times.

Susan left writing behind to pursue a bunch of engineering degrees, but she was drawn back to writing by an irresistible urge to share her stories with her niece, her kids, and all the wonderful friends she’s met along the way.

She doesn’t have to sneak her notes anymore, which is too bad.

Susan writes from the Chicago suburbs with her three boys, two cats, and one husband. Which, it turns out, is exactly as a much as she can handle.

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