I received a copy of this trilogy in exchange for my honest review. This was such a great science fiction series, one that I thoroughly enjoyed. It was almost nonstop action and lots of suspense as they uncover the true reason behind creating “the perfect human”. Jade Kerrion made her characters extremely realistic. So the novels were easy to get involved in and very difficult to put down. I loved the fact that although it was similar X-Men, the “powers” were a realistic possible human development. This is definitely a 4 star series and worthy read. ( )

Good writing

An interesting world with solid characters. Most of the time.

A flaw in the the world: it would have been better to have the military group be part of a civilian agency. Having the military run around on US soil is directly against the constitution.

I also had trouble with Zara. CEO of a ‘mercenary’ company but still in her 20s? Her character felt forced.

I am going to check out book 2. See how things develop.

Clean grammar and spelling. ( )

Good writing

An interesting world with solid characters. Most of the time.

A flaw in the the world: it would have been better to have the military group be part of a civilian agency. Having the military run around on US soil is directly against the constitution.

I also had trouble with Zara. CEO of a ‘mercenary’ company but still in her 20s? Her character felt forced.

I am going to check out book 2. See how things develop.

Clean grammar and spelling. ( )

This is the first in the series of Double Helix Books and short stories. The main characters in this book are well defined and this can be a standalone book. Galahad is a perfect reproduction of a human but has lived his entire life within the confines of the lab that created him. Danyael is his Twin in looks alone or so it seems. Danyael is also an alpha empath whose life always seems to be dangling in the balance. Miriya is a telepath who can help Danyael if he will allow it and at times he seems too easily acceptable to her. XIN is a federal employee who loves to hack computers, the internet or whatever she can. She is the perfect clone to Fu Hao 1200B.C. multitasking queen and military general. Zara, is an assassin and she good at what she does, death does not bother her nor does blood. Lucien is a rich friend of Danyaels and his best friend. As Zara takes Galahad from his lab/home and escorts him to Luciens’ mansion Galahad is injured and Danyael being a doctor is called in. It was bad enough they stole Galahad but now the stakes are higher and things are going to get really bad for everyone involved or not. This is a truly good read and like I said can be a standalone novel. There are many turns, twists and just plain out right WHAT, included here. ( )

Perfection Unleashed- A Double Helix Novel by Jade Kerrion.
Might be considered YA and Science Fiction- It's also pretty good story telling.

I recently started twittering- the doctor said that if I ignore it it will go away. It was to trace some specific activities and I hadn't thought to get too involved. What I did do was I started getting some interesting leads into reading material. Mostly in the form of- gentle- spam.

What that yielded was a pretty good read.

The story starts with Zara and this line:

[quote] On another Friday night, she might have been out at a Georgetown bar, accepting drinks from attractive men and allowing them to delude themselves into imagining that they might be the lucky one to take her home.[/quote]
Kerrion, Jade (2012-06-23). Perfection Unleashed (Book 1 of the Double Helix series) (p. 1). . Kindle Edition.

I know, gag me. I somehow think this line is meant to mislead- don't let it put you off. This does not even begin to describe Zara.

Zara is a mercenary and we find her working with two colleagues, a clone named Xin and a fellow mercenary named Carlos breaking into a lab where some seedy scientist, Rolland and Michael, are keeping an experiment they call Galahad--The perfect human. Zara's goal is to obtain some genetic matter from the experiment.

Things don't go quite as planned and Zara ends up taking the largest sample available--Galahad himself. This snowballs into a number of events that introduce us to a whole slew of other character that for me were just a bit hard to keep up with at first.

There's plenty of good world building inserted in the narrative to help sort things out. The world is one where there are clones and mutants- both considered sub human. Galahad seems to fall somewhere in between all this. There are even Pro humanist extremest.

Zara is not fond of mutants because of tele-paths and em-paths and its no help for her that her friend Lucian Winter brings in his own em-path, Danyael, to help them when everything goes wrong. There are other surprisinge complications to this, but you'll have to read it to find out.

The list of important characters in this story keeps building, but it all works out quite well, though at the beginning there were some moments when I lost track of whose POV I was in. The POV thing may have just been me and I got used to it quick enough that it became a non-issue.

I found a lot of familiar elements in this story. Lucian reminded me of the rich and discerning quietly helpful protagonist that always showed up in Robert Heinlein's work.

The relationship between the Pro human movement and the scientist had shades of twelve monkey's written all all over it.

The mutant and clone situation was reminiscent of X-men and other comic fiction, which may help account for the cast of thousands and many protagonists throughout.

I found many of the plot elements to be predictable while at the same time there were moments of wow when Jade takes us in another direction than expected.

The overall story is well paced and well told and even though it requires more reading in the series to resolve some of the plot issues it sticks together well into itself to satisfy.

Perfection Unleashed:
Is a great read to anyone who likes a good thriller and interesting diverse characters, lots of Science Fiction and plenty of thought provoking ethical issues.

A great beginning to a promising series of books.

J.L. Dobias ( )