Review: Paranormal Mystery
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 22, 2013
I was given this book in return for an honest review. Samantha and her best friend Elliot were kidnapped as children. Elliot begged the kidnappers to let her go and he would do whatever they said. They let her go and she has lived with the guilt ever since. Followed by the story wherever she goes, she tries to avoid getting too close to anyone. After starting a new school, she meets Becky and Frasier, they know her story and become her friends. While with Becky, they meet a guy named Lee, who Sam is instantly attracted to. The more she gets to know Lee though, the stranger things become. At a party, Frasier is injured, he swears that Lee healed him, there is also a black car that seems to be showing up a lot, and Lee acts so strange sometimes. She writes it off as her imagination. Sam still visits Elliot's parents, against her mother's wishes, feeling so guilty that he sacrificed himself for her. They are still looking for him and will never give up. Added to her everyday stresses, her mother is now dating a nice guy named Greg. Although Sam likes him, she feels like it's a betrayal of sorts, because of her father. As the story goes along, Sam delves more and more into Lee's life, trying to pry information out of him. When the end comes, Sam will wish she hadn't. Between Lee, Elliot, Greg, and her friends, things are about to get much worse than she ever imagined. Once you know something, you can't un-know it. What she finds out about Lee, Elliot and everything else will change her life forever and possible change the lives of those around her. If she survives it. "You don't know what it's like to be so weak, so lonely, so dead inside that every day you pray for the end to come swiftly."  This book was cool, more a mystery than paranormal, it does have paranormal in it, but not a focal point until the end. I loved discovering the secrets and reading as Sam figured it all out. It was a very interesting book and had a brand new supernatural creature in it, at least new to me. Major cliff-hanger ending. Will be waiting impatiently for the next book.