Lost In America (Book One, Episodes 1-3) Paperback – June 4, 2015

Laura Fitzgerald is a good storyteller. Lost in America is set in a near-future America I can easily relate to, with characters I can easily connect with. 18-year-old Laura, the narrator, survives a car crash that kills her boyfriend, to discover upon waking from a coma that she's been saying things that attract the attention not only of the hospital staff but of the police as well. As a reward for her mysterious comatose information, she even receives the latest model of the butler, a personal assistance device on the order of a smart watch. Butlers, though, know everything about their owners, and help out with everything from wardrobe choices to information about other people. There's a darker side to a butler, too, in its mysterious connection somehow to an as-yet unnamed bad guy and his imminent plans for a move-over-Pol Pot-I'll-show-you-a-real-genocide genocide. Laura stands in his way, and must flee. Which she does at the end of Episode 3, intending to get lost in America. Hence the title, of course.So far, so good Laura Fitzgerald. Let's see what the next episodes bring. You've set the bar kind of high for yourself.

I just finished the first three episodes of Lost In America and I am anxiously awaiting the next installment. Like any good adventure, the story line and characters are totally believable and the reader becomes emotionally involved in their welfare. This is a book that I can share with my daughter and it will create, I hope, a opportunity for discussions about relationships, politics and the concept of what should be private. The author does such a great job creating the scenes that I imagine the book as though a movie were playing in my head. Keep up the good work with this story Ms. Fitzgerald. I will definitely be recommending this to my friends.

I'm not one to really write reviews but I really enjoyed this book. It grabbed my attention immediately and kept me wanting more until the end. It's easy to relate to the character and really brings into perspective how much technology and privacy intersect and the dangers it can pose. If you are looking for a fast moving book that will keep you wanting to know what happens next then this is for you. I'm anxious to see what happens to Kendra on her journey to fulfilling her destiny.

I think it was written for young adults

Dollycas’s ThoughtsMost of the books I read are series books were there is an underlying story-line or theme that plays throughout the series and has a mystery or two played out within each book. This book contains the first three episodes (like a television series) of a series set in the non-distant future. A future that is getting closer every day. Life hinges on how the world uses new technology that replaces common things like out cell phones and televisions. Picture Apple’s new smart watch or a smarter television that knows your entire life, from the food you like to your blood type, what you said to your kids this morning to who visited your house. Technology that leaves what the NSA has on us to shame. What happens when all the information falls into the wrong hands. Hands that want to control the world’s destiny.All I could say when I finished Episode 3 was “wow, Wow, WOW!” Get me Episode 4! It is out and is calling to me! These stories are quite addicting. I found once I started reading I couldn’t stop. At first I was cursing Laura Fitzgerald and then I was thinking this is pretty genius. This type of story is going to interest everyone from teenagers to senior citizens. With the content it gives us some things some of us may see if our lifetimes and for the older folks it was something they have been predicting for years. With this format some may wait until all the episodes are released and binge read like they binge watch television series on Netflix and others will grab each exciting episode as it comes out and wait with wondrous anticipation for the next installment.Some may think this book is too Sci-Fi, which I rarely read, and I am here to tell you it is not. This is close enough to current time that is reads like a suspense thriller. Written is the episodic format the suspense continues to build and build and build. I truly am looking forward to each and every new release because I quickly became engaged and Kendra is an leading character that should grab everyone’s attention.I was given the first 3 episodes bundled together for review and they can be purchased that way. If you are not sure if this story is for you but you want to check it out the episodes can all be purchased separately and the first episode is just 99 cents.This is totally different than anything else I have written by this author. She has me completely hooked. She releases the episodes almost as soon as they are finished. She is going to have readers begging her to write faster.

Fans of author Laura Fitzgerald will find themselves 'lost' in this book, and unable to put it down. While a different type of genre than Fitzgerald's other novels, LOST IN AMERICA is an engrossing, heart-pounding, episodic story of suspense that tackles an issue which could very well be facing all of us in the not-too-distant future: voluntary surrender of our rights to privacy which results in the use of 'killer' technology used against us. LOST IN AMERICA is an on-going series being written in real-time, Fitzgerald has definitely captured my interest. On to buy and read Book Four...

A si fi story which is a bit far fetched to my thinking. It ends with you having to buy the next book instead of finishing an episode. Not going to read anymore in the series.