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Going Through the Change Paperback – April 23, 2015

by Samantha Bryant (Author)

3.4 706 ratings

Book 1 of 4: Menopausal Superheroes

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Going through "the change" isn't easy on any woman. Mood swings, hot flashes, hormonal imbalances, and itchy skin are par for the course. But for these four seemingly unrelated women, menopause brought changes none of them had ever anticipated-super-heroic changes. Helen discovers a spark within that reignites her fire. Jessica finds that her mood is lighter, and so is her body. Patricia always had a tough hide, but now even bullets bounce off her. Linda doesn't have trouble opening the pickle jar anymore...now that she's a man. When events throw the women together, they find out that they have more in common than they knew-one person has touched all their lives. The hunt for answers is on.

Book 1 of 4

Menopausal Superheroes
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250 pages
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English
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Curiosity Quills Press
Publication date

April 23, 2015
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5.98 x 0.57 x 9.02 inches
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1620078414
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978-1620078419
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Curiosity Quills Press (April 23, 2015)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 250 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1620078414
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1620078419
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.1 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.98 x 0.57 x 9.02 inches

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Samantha J. Bryant

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Samantha Bryant believes in love, magic, and unexplainable connections between people. Her favorite things are lonely beaches, untamed cliff tops, sunlight through the leaves of trees, summer rains, and children's laughter. She lives in North Carolina, grew up in Kentucky, and left her heart in Alaska. She is fierce at heart, though she doesn't look it.

She reads poetry and comic books, sometimes on the same day because she contains multitudes.

She writes blogs, poems, essays, and novels. Mostly she writes about things that scare or worry her because writing is a great work to work things out. Someday, she hopes to make her living solely as a writer. In the meantime, she also teaches middle school Spanish, which, admittedly, is an odd choice for money-earning, especially in North Carolina.

When she's not writing or teaching, Samantha enjoys time with her family, watching old movies, baking, reading, and going places. Her favorite gift is tickets (to just about anything).

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Jody J Sperling

Unintended Audience - Still Great Fun

Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2023

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I initially left a star rating and went about my business without reviewing, but I was updating my Goodreads and saw that I'd checked out the remaining books in this series, which plunged me down the reading-reviews-rabbit-hole. Though I'm far from the intended audience, a man under the age when women are experiencing menopause, I found this book fun, comedic, and quick.

One reviewer claimed the story started slow. Whoa to that reader if they ever pick up a literary novel. Character development here was a big part of what made the story resonate, and Bryant did a great job with it.

Other readers claimed there was no humor to be found, and I guess I'm ultrasensitive to that accusation because I'm writing a detective series and a handful of my readers have absolutely missed the intended humor, taking certain behaviors at face value. I won't claim to be funny, no do I imagine Bryant would, but I would say dismissing something as "unfunny" is more about the reader coming to the book with predetermined notions.

I found GOING THROUGH THE CHANGE TO BE FUNNY and silly, yet profound and hopeful. So I hope readers coming to the series new, will see this review and balance one reader's opinion with the others. I'll be reading the rest of the series soon.

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Quinn

Ending is fine; depth is surprising.

Reviewed in the United States on September 1, 2015

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Right off the bat, I want to address the other reviews that call the ending a cliffhanger. It isn't a cliffhanger like a serial novel's. It is more like the end of Star Wars: A New Hope. The immediate concerns are addressed, but you know the bad guy is coming back. It is not as bad as some have made out, but it definitely makes you want the next book.
The most important thing about this novel is how deft it is. The ways the women change are very clever, but the reasons are not obvious at first. As a woman moving into this phase of life, I found the author's characterizations complex and nuanced. I will admit that I cried several times while reading because the characters' inner struggles spoke to me. There is a whole lot more going on here than some women with powers running around. One might even use the term "symbols." I really related to Linda, and I am still processing what I read.
I would not recommend this book to someone looking for a comic book in novel form. I would wholeheartedly recommend it to women who find themselves in a place where they don't know what their bodies will do from day to day and also to the people who love women in that state. The powers might be exaggerated, but the emotions are all right on the money.

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Samuel Alexander

Interesting read

Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2015

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I really Wanted to love this book. Thought I was going to hate it, then ended up wanting to read the next one. It was a serious flip flop of opinion but it did happen. I was admittedly thinking this book would be a no star but now I can at least give it a three.

The premise is good. Four women going through menopause who change into supernatural beings because of a certain woman's products. There's a lot of fun to be had here. It's not your typical superhero fare. One woman becomes a villain and the other three become the heroes and the race is on to catch the evil product making villain who made them this way. Granted this isn't the most amazing plot ever, but it works for the story. The action scenes were fun to read and the settings where easy to picture in my mind, even the characters were clearly defined. This book was just awesome…. in the second half. That was the problem I hit 55% or so on my reader before it got this amazing, and was completely bored to tears with the dragging plot development slow-paced blah.

The writer writes well, the introduction to all characters clearly mapped who they were out very well individualy and in context with the people in their seperate story lines. And this was done in good time. But after that the check list is like, background stories--check, villains and heroes clearly identified-check, character personalty types identified-check, story moving forward-no. Pages and pages of figuring out stuff none of the characters where designed to be stupid enough not to figure out.

For example how do you live your life the same everyday, change one thing in this case a tea, start flying and never quite literaly until the third act question why you are floating. People don't just wake up flying in the real world, something must have changed in your routien. I don't think she ever took a step back to analise the situation and even after the person who made the special tea took interest in her situation and offered to help the lightbulb still did not go off. I just couldn't believe she'd be that unaware of herself. Also, how do you go from a short petit woman to an over six foot man, know exactly how it happened and not once try to rectify it. Just 'okay I'm a man now', after over forty years of life. If I woke up a woman yes I would go straight to my doctor to find out what the hell happened and we need to take some test lock me in a lab and lets get me back to normal imediately. I couldn't go along for that ride either. Two points in the book that dragged on for me and especially if you know you used to be a woman and you know why you're not anymore and this new friend flies and is clearly distraught about it, sharing would be the best to let her know she is not alone, and furthermore the tea busniess she is woefully unaware of wouldv'e been solved a good 20 or more pages faster.

The same for the best friend who becomes bullet proof. Turning into a monster and you become your friends lab rat, your friend is a genius and yet you are still turning into a monster and it never occurs to you she is not trying to fix you. The only person with the good sense to know what was going on was the woman with fire, she went straight to the source and willingly went forward. The irony of that is that she ended up being the villain and just as completly psycho as our main villain.

Basically once I knew who and what the characters where about the story just went on forever as if no one was concerened at all with the fact they were changing. Getting sick is one thing, but sex changes, species changes and super power gettings, that's stuff you try to sort out imediately in hopes you can either fix it or know for sure you can't and how to get on with it. These characters seemed to just float on endlessly through stuff that if i skipped from after all the intorductions to the catalyst in the middle, which i shall call the 'tea' incident, i would've probably gave this book an eleven out of ten.

Lastly the premise that only these women changed because of menopause is shakey, why didn't it affect all other menopausal women taking the products? I guess I was expecting something deeper. And the crew failed to come together with a cleary defiend leader. Bands of superheroes tend to have their roles clearly defined in a group. Thats what the first book is for. I know what their powers are, their motivations, their personalities, but their roles in the group and how that makes them work together, the book never quite got there, not even at the end. They were still kind of looking at one person for a plan, but i never got the impression they expected one from all the arguments they kept having. It was just she was used to making plans so by defualt they stared at her. If anything, the intern should be the woman in charge, she had her act together and a sans superpower leader might be what they need to get it together.

So hate aside, this book somehow managed to go from zero to fun and awesome. Boredom to high action, whoa this writer can write. It was fun light reading and easy to follow and way interesting once the whole 'tea' incident happened. I honestly couldn't stop reading. The rythm pacing, hell everything about the whole second half of this book was almost too good to be true, like i wasn't reading the same book. Usually after a few chapters if i don't like it, i stop reading, but I read on and I'm actually glad I did this time. Pleasantly surprised, and if this second half is an indication of what this author can do I am on board for the next installment of this series, i didn't think it would be a series but I'm not complaining.

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Carol A. Strickland

This book has no ending!

Reviewed in the United States on June 13, 2015

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Ordinarily I might give this a 3.5 star rating for the book's earnestness, but I really want to give it a zero, since I just "finished" reading it.

The book has no ending. NOTHING gets resolved. In fact, we are left in the midst of a crisis.

That's cheating the reader. I don't like to be cheated. Perhaps the author thought this was a "comic book cliffhanger," but no. It's a cheat.

The book has a good enough "logic" going for it with its mad scientist and four women affected by her machinations. But viewpoint keeps skipping from one to another, which makes for much confusion and lack of focus. (Especially if you put the book down for a few days as I did. When I returned I tried to recall which character was which.)

None of the women seriously consider going to a real doctor concerning their problems, which slides them dangerously close to TSTL territory. Linda's husband is the only likable male in the story, and he comes across as the world's most perfect husband… At least he is until near the end.

So ordinarily I'd say that this book was worth a potential try-out, but the non-ending negates that. Nope, I can't recommend this book. I don't see how an actual publisher would okay anything like this. I'm so angry at the author for doing this!

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PurpleKJ87

A Real Treat

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 5, 2023

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It was great to get the insight in to how it all began for the ladies. I read a later book first and was intrigued. This book had me laughing and feeling empathy. Thoroughly enjoyed and itching to read more.

Y. P. Cruz

A super fun read

Reviewed in Spain on June 29, 2019

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I usually read literature, not fun. But this book was so much fun, and so original, and so well crafted, that I could not put it down.

Margrete

I love the premise of "what if" the author Samantha Bryant ...

Reviewed in Canada on November 16, 2016

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I actually thought this might give some insights into how to deal with menopause and it did -- laughter! I love the premise of "what if" the author Samantha Bryant writes about - what if our symptoms were enhanced to the point of a "super power". It's a fun read, keeping you glued to the page to find out what happens to each of the women. Definitely would recommend it!

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Raji

Good

Reviewed in India on February 8, 2016

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Samantha had started with interesting concepts about the characters. I liked the way each character with its special powers were portrayed. Little bit disappointed with the ending. I was expecting answers for those change overs. Anyway a good book to read.