Review: The Addiction Continues. . .
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 23, 2013
SPOILER ALERT - IF YOU HAVE NOT YET READ BOOK ONE OF THIS SERIES DO NOT READ ANY FURTHER!!!When we last saw Addy and Tanner, they had just finished a ritual with Eva and Andrew, as well as Addy's brother Jax and his "sister" Juliette, to break the Overseer's Stone once and for all. The ritual kills Eva and Andrew as they knew it would, but what no one expected was that Addy, Tanner, Jax, and Juliette have been sent back to Greystone. And right as they are being sent back Addy sees Gage come back from being Scattered, since Scattering no longer exists due to the release of the powers from the Overseer's Stone. But before she can even say a word to him she is ripped away to Greystone. A place no one can follow them to...Greystone is where the Akori come from, and those who were in Tremain, a different layer of Earth than Greystone, became permanently separated from those who were in Greystone at the time of the creation of the Overseer's Stone, which caused the destruction of the portals used to travel between planes.Now Addy and Tanner, the equivalent of the new Eva and Andrew (minus the sibling relationship), have more power than any Akori in existence. They are also the last living Shepherd and Shepherdess, and now control the Palace of the Shepherds in Greystone, not too mention they can be the law in Greystone should they so choose.As Addy and Tanner learn to control their powers they discover new things about each other and themselves, not too mention about those they love, including Addy's brother Jax. Adventures abound in this book, and the emotional scenes are powerful and commanding of your attention. Ms. Firman has a real talent for making the reader feel as if they are living the book rather than just reading it. That takes immense skill, and tremendous imagination to be able to write for both male and female points of view that feel equally compelling.And she pulls a fast one on us at the end of this book, easily ensuring that everyone who has read it is counting down the days to the release of book three. Thankfully it is now less than a month away - though it feels like it Halloween just ended and now all you can think about is Christmas when you are six or seven years old... like it will never get here and time takes forever to move forward. (Though of course our rational minds realize that time flies faster and faster the older we become! And while I want to live in the moment always, it is a real challenge to do so knowing that the next book is just around the corner!)