Review: A book to read over and over again - until book 2 comes out!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 7, 2013
OMG how could you do this to me? Really? To ME?This absolutely amazing 5***** book has such fantastic imagery and detailed world-building and character building I should have KNOWN it was too good to be true! I should have known by the beautiful descriptions of a world within our own; a world attempting to balance itself between the Nature and Elements it is based on and the 21st century that goes on around it.This book reaches into you and pulls emotion from you like a magician pulling a scarf out of a sleeve. It opens you up to the possibilities of life and laughter and love and allows you to see the joy to be found in the most simple of acts.Imagine being an "Eternelles" as the series is. Feminine and eternal - that's what it means. Strong, resilient women who are capable of running their own lives, fighting their own battles, making their own choices and living with the consequences of those choices, whatever they may be. Such women would be alone - by choice and by fate - but together with each other at the same time. Mother and daughter living and working together, side by side, in both worlds. We know that eternity is a very long time and while they have each other now there is always a void to be filled - a place in her soul that calls to the one who belongs there, the one who has a place in his soul for her. Their paths to each other are never easy, never clear and never short but they always end together - in this life or the next; in this world or the other.My complaint at the beginning - CLIFFHANGER ENDING! Cruel, tortuous, painful cliffhanger that leaves the reader BEGGING for more!  Waiting (very im)patiently for Indomitable to come out.Whether together or separate, Natalie G. Owens and Zee Mondee are definitely going on my TBR list. In fact, I'm gonna try and shove them as close to the top as I can without it tumbling over and squishing the juice out of me!