"Cassidy Jones and Vulcan’s Gift is the second installment in what I believe will be a long running series that will be read for generations to come. Just eight weeks have passed in the life of Cassidy since Cassidy Jones and The Secret Formula took me on a great adventure where I fell in love wit... more

"Cassidy Jones and Vulcan’s Gift is the second installment in what I believe will be a long running series that will be read for generations to come. Just eight weeks have passed in the life of Cassidy since Cassidy Jones and The Secret Formula took me on a great adventure where I fell in love with Cassidy, her family, and her friends and now Cassidy Jones and Vulcan’s Gift picks up and runs at an amazing pace through another phenomenal story that turns out to be even better than the first. While the first adventure left Cassidy with super human strength senses and agility due to a lab accident, in Vulcan’s Gift, she is honing in on those abilities, learning to manage herself and her ever changing emotions due to the accident, and most importantly, keeping it all a secret from everyone other than genius boy, Emery, and his scientist mother. As in her first book, Elise Stokes proves herself to be a master of suspense for tweens and teens with her ability to unfold a mystery with shocking twists and unexpected turns, all the while entertaining the reader with story lines of high school drama, relationships and pending romance. Stokes has created the perfect amateur crime solving duo with Cassidy and Emery and when circumstance throws Cassidy and Emery into another adventure of crime solving, they are not only tracking tigers and the person responsible for its escape, but they are hot on the trail to solving a murder. Not only is the suspense portion of the story well crafted, but the life experiences of Cassidy are interesting and the relationship between Cassidy and Emery is both tender and tense. Vulcan’s Gift has all the familiar regulars who are a part of Cassidy’s life, but new adventures brings new characters that include the strange guy next door, a big game hunter, and Sasquatch among many other mysterious and sometimes creepy personas. Elise Stokes is a gifted writer who delivers all of my favorite middle school and high school mystery novels and T.V. shows rolled into one and repackaged with a sleek, modern story line and unique thrilling characters." —Stephanie Laymon, Five Alarm Book Reviews