Review: Four Mystical stars!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 29, 2014
Eliza Morgan has just lost her parents in a horrible accident. Plagued by mysterious dreams and a rare condition/gift she comes to find out that her parents were hiding a big secret from her and it completely flings her into a world of mystery, spells, rituals, spirits and a history she knows nothing about. On a search for her biological parents she finds that danger and murder have been following her since she was an infant. Armed with new friends and family Eliza has to learn the culture she was born to and discover who has been hurting those she loves for so many years. During her time in her new surroundings she meets the devastatingly gorgeous Samuel, I mean this guy is all that and a bag of chips. Protective, strong, handsome, loving and loyal. He would do anything to keep Eliza safe.There are some very neat aspects of this book. I don’t know a lot about Voodoo culture or history so this book pretty much sucked me in immediately. I liked the descriptions of the rituals and the spirits and how everything worked. Also Bernsen threw in some history with Marie Laveau, who was a renowned and infamous Voodoo Priestess. I am always enthralled by books that include history of the supernatural or mystical cultures, things outside of the norm or understanding of modern society and this book was filled with those elements. The plot was very fast-paced and kept you on your toes throughout the story, I found there was never a dull moment in the storyline and it kept me very engaged in the reading.There were some things that I believe could have been improved. I felt that some of the relationships in the story were slightly underdeveloped. While I enjoyed the sense of this underlying connection and passion between Samuel and Eliza and I also felt it was not explored enough. Some scenes started out very passionate and then sort of dwindled to a simmer between them. I also think some background information with regards to the characters would have been great as well. We don’t learn too much about the past prior to Eliza’s parents’ death. I would have liked to learn how Eliza coped with her gift growing up or maybe even read about some of Samuel’s memories of Eliza.Overall I totally enjoyed this book, I am not positive if this will be a series but I think it would do well as one. I would love to read more about Eliza and Samuel’s future. Good fun read!