Book Review: “The One Discovered: Chronicles of the Diasodz, #1” by Yvette Calleiro

About The Author

Yvette M. Calleiro is a heavily addicted reader of both young adult and adult novels. She spends most of her time psuedo-living in paranormal worlds with her fictional friends (and boyfriends). She's also been known to run on the elliptical machine at her gym for hours while reading anything from paranormal to fantasy to suspenseful thrillers.

When she's living amongst real people, Yvette M. Calleiro is a high school Reading teacher. She's been sharing her love of literature with her students for over fifteen years. Besides writing about the various characters that whisper (and sometimes scream) in her head, she enjoys traveling, watching movies, spending quality time with family and friends, and enjoying the beauty of the ocean.

Yvette lives in Miami, Florida, with her beautiful son who allows her to enjoy children's literature all over again. She also shares her space with an assortment of crazy saltwater animals in her 300-gallon tank.

About The Book

How do you choose when both options have dire consequences?

Sofia is a 17 year old who is quite content with her life. She has a caring boyfriend who also just happens to be her best friend since birth. She has a loving mother. She is successfully completing her last year of high school and enjoys her part-time job. She can’t imagine wanting more from her life…until Ar’ch (pronounced Ar-rick) enters her dreams, sparking a burning flame inside of her that she can’t seem to extinguish nor does she want to.

Ar’ch is a Diasodz (Die-ah-sodz), a species created by the Goddess back when God created humans. Diasodz were made to heal and protect humans, but when the Diasodz turned their backs on helping humans and left Earth to live in their own world, the Goddess abandoned them. Since then, their powers and their very lives have been fading. A prophecy foretold that a young girl born on Earth would be the Diasodz’s savior. Ar’ch and his brother, Angel, travel to Earth to retrieve her and bring her back to their world before her death day in order to save their kind. Ar’ch knows the drill: find the target, capture her, and safely bring her home. But what happens when the target captures his dormant heart?

My Review

Amazing Young Adult Fantasy

This book has everything: mystery & suspense, romance, magic, a magical world, and of course fantasy. The One Discovered is an easy to read, fast-paced, and well-written Young Adult Fantasy that caused me to go over my allowed reading time more than once. I absolutely did not want to put it down.

I loved this books so much that I can hardly wait to read the next book in the series, The One Enlightened. It's hard to believe this is Ms. Calleiro's first novel. She is an author to watch and I predict she will go a long way in publishing.