Cassidy Jones and the Secret Formula by Elise Stokes

Normal until she accidentally breathed in the gas from a secret experiment conducted by a world-famous scientist (Dr. Highly recommended!Ĭassidy Jones was a normal, shy teenager. It’s devoid of magic, vampires, werewolves or other dark imaginings it’s just a good, clean story, sort of like a modern day Nancy Drew or Hardy Boy’s mystery. I liked the characterization, the plot and the Seattle setting, but most of all I liked that the story didn’t deal with “dark” material. Join this unbeatable duo as they team up and risk their lives to discover who kidnapped the professor, what the secret formula 10X is, who stole it and the cause of Cassidy’s enhanced powers.īrimful of danger, secrets, a bit of romance and fun, this debut author’s entertaining plot and well-drawn characters not only is all it promises to be, but will leave readers looking for more.

Where she learns the professor is missing and foul play’s afoot. Share the fun and hijinks as Cassidy learns how to master her newly fine-tuned senses, from enhanced hearing, sight and smell to incredible athletic prowess and speed that make her feel “like a racehorse at the starting gate.”Ĭassidy, uncertain about what’s happening, keeps her altered state a secret until she meets Emery, the professor’s very cute, but mysterious, fifteen-year-old son. Thus begins Elise Stoke’s new fun-filled, action-packed, adventure series, perfect for teens and tweens summer reading, where a young girl’s senses are transformed overnight. Cassidy frantically clutched the counter, overturning beakers of “hot liquid” that then pooled and “instantaneously vaporized, forming a white cloud.”Īt that moment Cassidy gasped for air and took a crucial breath then…blackness overtook her.

Shortly after her father began the stool gave way without warning.

She joins her news anchor father on what she thought would be a “boring” interview with Professor Serena Phillips, a brilliant geneticist who invents unusual secret formulas.ĭuring the interview Cassidy sat off to the side on a rickety stool with nearby laboratory beakers merrily bubbling atop small burners, sending up wisps of smoke. Like many fourteen-year-olds, Cassidy Jones is shy and a bit insecure, her “entire goal…” to stay in the background, so as “not to attract attention.” And she did just that until… (NOTE: Gail Welborn's review had been published in The Seattle Examiner, The Washington Examiner, The Cypress Times, and Christian News Northwest.

Cassidy Jones and the Secret Formula by Elise Stokes