Review: A bit confusing
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 29, 2014
>I received this book from the author and from Paranormal Romance and Authors That Rock.>This book is a stand alone book best classified as an epic paranormal tale.>We are introduced to a young Katherine and her drunkard of a father as they travel in Missouri looking for work.  Katherine is part Native American and she has all the magical mystery that race is known for.  She is always remembering her grandmother and her teachings on nature, things to fear and second sight.>Katherine meets the Judge and she feels mystically pulled to him, via actual items she finds of his that she keeps in a box, like talisman.  Their affair ends when the box is lost.>Katherine is brutally raped after her breakup, which causes her to run to the woods to live.  Her tryst with the Judge resulted in a pregnancy, though.  She ends up in a cabin in the woods, away from everyone excepts for the Judge, his wife and caretakers.  When her twins are born the book starts to imply magic, but so subtly, it is confusing.  There are gypsies to read the future, premonitions via dreams, visitations, strange transferences using animal hosts and death.  Who died and what exactly did Katherine do, is a mystery until the very end and even then it is confusing.>The characters of the Judge and Elizabeth were characters I did not care about.  Both were selfish and really never did right by Katherine.  Katherine never wavers throughout the whole book and is perpetually the same.  This is disconcerting as the story takes place over such a long period of time and things just naturally change over time.  At times the early part of the book and the later part seem as if they were 2 separate stories.> This book is for an adult audience due to instances of rape and incest.