Review: Fight for life
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 3, 2014
It's such a pleasure to read for this author and I have fallen in love with her writing style.  I really enjoy working with new authors, watching from the sidelines as they develop their work into the books that we all love to read.  Ms Todd has a unique touch that brings her characters off the page and into your life.In this new series we meet Calloway, his cousin Breccan and their friend Easton.  Calloway is a gifted young man in his senior year of high school, that has lost his parents and is living with his cousin and his parents which are his legal guardians.  Due to his aunt's illness the family is under a financial strain.  Calloway is struggling to deal with the loss of his parents and the financial stress of his home life plus trying to understanding the fight against the Hara-Kirs.Cal was very young when his father was killed by a mugger. His father left him two objects that are very confusing along with a letter so mystifying he becomes depressed coming to terms with what they could mean.  As the story develops Cal, Breccan and Easton develop a very close bond with each other while they figure out how to fight the Hara-Kirs.  As this happens the story line takes a lot of twists and turns and more characters are added.I was very impressed with Calloway as he firmly believed that people are not what they wear or the amount in their wallet but good people making the right or wrong decisions.  No matter who they were they deserve to be treated right and given a second chance.  His feelings of respect for his aunt and uncle was very uplifting in addition was very fortunate to be able to have the support of one of his teachers and experience a special bond with him.I can't wait for book two to be released and the continuation of the story plus the development of Easton, Breccan and the added characters of Weston, Easton' s older sister and Marquan, Cal' s co worker.  I was hooked and could not stop reading.  You can count on more laughter and lots of emotional highs like all Ms Todd's books!