Review: I want Sunday on my side!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 12, 2014
Taking Back Sunday4 out of 5 starsThis is a debut novel by Cristy Moran. I was given this book to read and to write a review of my honest opinion as part of a book tour.The story line was very well written, bringing in a new magical being different than most of the Paranormal books I have been reading lately.Taking Back Sunday is about an Incarnate named Sunday. What is and Incarnate, I can answer that I was lost on that one myself until I looked it up. Now had I read some other reviews I would have had a better understanding of the word. Not know what exactly it was had me confused and unable to understand the beginning of the story (wish I would have looked it up sooner myself) I kept thinking it was a witch that could pick up on everyone else’s pain (saw this on an episode of Charmed) But what an Incarnate actually is, is a conduit of mystical energy, meaning an Incarnate can pick up all the energies of people and elements that are surrounding her… which can make her very dangerous.  Because of her power she is wanted by many that practice evil magic.The story starts out in the present time, but then it has to take you back over a decade to understand more of where Sunday comes from and what she is about.  At the age of 14 Sunday is taken by two men while living in Louisiana, she goes willingly knowing that it is her destiny. She is taken to Washington State where she is handed over to a witch by the name of Bernadette. She is knocked out, striped, blind folded, shackled and chained to a concrete bed. Here Bernadette and others chant Wiccan prayers over her and her memory of all she was about is taken from her. She is brainwashed into believing that Bernadette is her grandmother and is used by her for her incarnate ways. But this all ends up back firing on Bernadette and Sunday is able to escape and run.Sunday has been running for the past five years but not knowing what she is running from, only that it is not safe for her to stay in one place very long and try to live a normal life. Present day Columbia S. Carolina Sunday has been living here now for over a year and has even made some friends that mean the world to her. She is also having dreams of the time she spent with Bernadette and some of her memories are coming back, but she still does not really know who she is, where she is from or even if she has family somewhere. Her two friends Sammy and Kayla are in a coven and have been trying to get Sunday to join them. Finally she caves and agrees to attend a gathering with them.Cyrus the wolf that originally captured Sunday and took her to Bernadette is again on the hunt for her only now to deliver her to the Pastophori of Iset. He has been one step behind her for the past four years and is now in the same town as her.  Cyrus has carried an angry desire to kill her all these years, but when he comes face to face with her he gets a completely different feeling about her. The wolf in him sees that she is his mate. This throws a wrench in the capture and deliver plan!  They run into one another in a bar and he touches her, that is when he knows she is destine to be his mate and she feels something for him but does not know what it is exactly. And she does not even recognize him, but the instant they touch her incarnate senses pick up on something and it knocks her for a loop! She has held her incarnate powers behind a wall she has built up.Things with her friend’s coven are not what everyone thinks… there is a witch among them that is into black magic and Sunday senses it. This puts Sunday on a mission to find out who it is and what she wants. Cyrus and some of his pack end up helping Sunday. There are a lot of twists and turns in the remainder of the story, but true to my review system I am going to leave you here and hope that you will want to know everything there is to know about Taking Back Sunday. This is a great story and I myself look forward to book two so I can find out what else happensHappy Reading!