"An excellent paranormal!"
This book has been recommended to me several times.
Finally, I had the opportunity to read it and wow! I'm
just sorry I haven't had a chance to read it before now. Rae (Sunshine) Seddon works in her stepfather
Charlie's coffeehouse as a baker. She makes killer
desserts but her homemade cinnamon rolls are 'to die for'.
Most people come in just to see what new and exotic
dessert she has come up with on any given day. When Rae was younger her mother and father
divorced and for a while she didn't have anything to do
with her father's family. Finally her mother let her visit
her grandmother who lived by the lake. Rae had fond
memories of her grandmother and the lake but that was
before the VooDoo Wars. After that she never saw her
grandmother again; but before her grandmother disappeared
she taught Rae some magic but Rae never used it. She
really didn't see any need. Then on a nostalgic whim Rae decides to visit the
lake and gets kidnapped by vampires for her trouble. They
dress her in a fancy red dress and drag her to a
mansion where she is chained to a wall. She soon realizes
that she is not alone. There's a vampire chained to the
wall as well. She is petrified and cannot understand what
this is all about. She soon learns that she is just a pawn
for one vampire to try to defeat another. She finds out
though that the vampire chained to the wall, Constantine
refuses to destroy her. For that when she figures out how
to escape, she takes Con with her. This starts a chain
reaction of bizarre instances in which Rae thinks she is
slowly losing her sanity. Why can't she go back to the way
things were before? I didn't think this was a romance as much as I
believe it is a coming of age story for Rae. She does a
lot of growing up and figuring out what needs to be done
to keep her family and her part of the world safe from
everything. She'll do anything to make sure that comes to
fruition. In my opinion this powerful novel is one of
those must read novels of the age. I highly recommend this
one.
Reviewed by Kathy Boswell
Posted November 28, 2005
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