Review: Witches, Light vs. Dark Magic; intense, romantic and suspenseful
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 3, 2012
It is a story about witches, covens and mysteries and their beliefs, continuation of the first book Crescent Bound.  It starts with Alyssa and Marc bonded as a married couple and their love is so deep they can feel each other's pain or confusion when separated.  The author starts the story off with the couple and friends and their hobbies which was cars such as Mustangs and top of the line motorcycles, and their daily interaction with their friends who are all witches.It was entertaining to read about their outings and other interests, such as the songs, clothing and other daily topics young people are interested in. Then the story becomes more chilling as Alyssa is in trouble and goes missing.  She was kidnapped and her husband Marc who is an ice element is very lost and furious that he did not protect her.  Marc, her father, who is the Head Witch and others covens come together and planned a search and rescue Alyssa mission.Meanwhile Alyssa, an unique and powerful witch not aware of all of her powers just yet was held captive by a cruel Dr. Jekyll and Hyde powerful dark witch, Nate, and he is cruel to her, punishing her, torturing her and keeps her disoriented, stealing her goodness, her light and turned her towards the darkness he craves. He is abusive and used black magic and poisoned herbs to erase her memory of all good in her life, her Marc, family and friends. This intention was to manipulate her into using her gifts of healing and other talents for Nate and his henchmen to be healed when they are injured by their human hostages, who struggled against their captivity.Alyssa in her disoriented drugged state realizes Nate was a madman and he wants authority of all witches covens by destroying one coven at a time and targets for another and Alyssa was the key to unlock his future reign of dominance of the witch's realm, declaring her as his alleged life-mate and brainwashed her to obey only his commandments.Her husband who is hot and sensual sensed her dilemma and felt all her emotional and physical pain she was enduring and desperately wants her back and safe in his embrace. They followed leads and when they challenged the dark witch and his henchmen in a battle of the elements they are defeated and retreated but come back for another match and this is when the intensity of the story becomes interesting and compelled this reader to stay up late to see justice given to the bad guys and Alyssa path back to recovery.The dark magic toxins were coursing through her veins and it might be too late for the high twelve witches of the world to reverse the spell. Marc and all who loved Alyssa waited in anticipation to welcome the old Alyssa or a stranger back to their lives. The passion  and the love they have for each other was sensual enough to make this reader to desired to have a glass of ice cold water next to her when reading the  intimate  connection between the two life mates. It was refreshing details of hints of their commitment to each other and all they cared about, which is more alluring then right out description. The conclusion was breath-taking and the glimpse into the witches' rituals was exhilarating to feel the goodness and light pour out of the pages.Author's words: "Some secrets are not meant to be kept...and so it is with the dark Brotherhood of the Raven, in their reach for control they find a secret that leads them in pursuit of the daughter and heir to the most prominent coven in existence." Once they possess her the real challenge is converting her to one of them."To find out more about this author and her books go to this link:http://www.amazon.com/Raven-Bound-Crescent-ebook/dp/B008EX46NW/ref=la_B007DJNOMW_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid;=1346707224&sr; and her author pagehttp://www.amazon.com/Karli-Rush/e/B007DJNOMW/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0