Review: Love this series!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 4, 2014
Dying Thoughts ~ First Touch takes you by the hand and reels you right in. The author writes in a very conversational way. Just like if you were friends with this teenager. This fifteen year-old is as real as they come and it's easy to build an instant connection. This story grabs hold and in an instant you are in the center of it all. I love characters that seem life-like and this one does.Tara Leverton is not only a likable character but totally relatable too. My younger self would have gravitated to her and this series. There is nothing fancy in the writing which I prefer. This is the kind of book that you won't want to put down until you know how it ends with its clever lines and sarcastic wit. It's like talking on the phone with a close friend where you talk for hours. You don't want to walk away and I didn’t.I devoured this book in a day. What a pleasurable escape. You would think a storyline about a lonely young girl whose mother died and was seeing visions that were more like nightmares would be depressing but this gifted author has a way of making everything she touches heart warming, entertaining and oddly enough, funny. Some of the comical lines had me laughing out loud. So clever and yet so down to earth. Loved every bit of this adventurous mystery."This is why I liked my life before Kaolin - apart from the fact that I was happy in the knowledge that my mum had died from cancer and the occasional 'vision' to disturb my peace and quiet. Apart from all that, I didn't have to worry about other people. The only goal in my life was to get through school with minimum psychological damage. Then Kaolin came into my life and suddenly everything was turned upside down."