Review: Great Set
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 6, 2013
I read these books individually, giving the first book a 4 star and the second a 5 star. I was on the edge about the 4 star, so as a unit, they deserve the whole 5 stars. Plus, what better way to get these books than as a set! If you are like me, you just have to know what happens to your favorite characters as soon as you finish that first book. I have put my reviews for each book underneath. You will spend many enjoyable hours with these books.Sacred Secrets: This is the third book I have read of Linda Prather's. I love the psychic mystery genre and she does a fantastic job of writing it. The characters were wonderful and Jacody Ives was a lot of fun as a main character. The only reason I did not give this 5 stars was because I was too confused through the first third of the book, not sure who was who. Soon after that though, things straightened out and the action picked up. The ending was not what I was expecting either. After all the mystery/thrillers I have read, it has been hard for me to find authors who can still surprise me at the end! As soon as I finished this one, I had to know what was going to happen next for Jacody and Gavin and the gang, so I picked up the next. That one is even better than this one. If you read this book, do yourself a favor and pick up the next one too.The Gifts: I picked this book up immediately after Sacred Secrets, the prequel to this one. It starts out with a horrific murder and Rob, Carl and Gavin hunting a serial killer they have been after for years. This time, he has hit close to home in more than one way. Gavin goes one way, searching for clues in a tiny town, while Rob and Carl go another way, searching in their own way. They all end up in danger, of course. The people Gavin meets in Glade Springs are all so interesting and all seem to have deep secrets. It makes for a great who-done-it as any one of them have things to hide and you never know who is going to come after Gavin and his new love, Sarah and her adorable little girl Nikki. This is another one of Prather's psychic thriller mysteries and I loved it. Some of it was a little sappy (and I know a lot of people don't like that kind of thing in their thrillers) but it fit in with the storyline really well. I would love to read more of Gavin and Sarah's story, if Ms. Prather has more plans for them (hint, hint!).