Review: `Open with your sister only.'
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 27, 2014
Lori Lebda and Tami Bergeson have partnered in creating such varied books as `What Cat Are You?: Discovering your Inner Feline', `What Dog are You?: Discovering your Inner Pooch', `What Mate Are You?: Discovering Your True Role in Relationships' and other such books, but here they offer a Young Adult paranormal fantasy that appears as though it will become a series - the subtitle of The Sinclair Saga suggests that.Lori and Tami embark on a co-written paranormal adventure that uses a brother and sister as protagonists. Though their names are Jack and Maya, they are better known to the reader as `bro' and `sis' - but their relationship is special in that their parents were murdered while traveling on a search for a key with supernatural powers. True or False? We later discover. At any rate bro and sis are off to Peru in search of the clues that will lead them to the facts of the murder that seems suspicious. Their goal once in Peru is to find the mysterious key their parents sought. A shaman introduces a map to an ancient civilization's hidden crypt, that is only step one in this series of non-stop adventures, all made more surreal by the time frame within which they must work. And all this is in search of the murderer of their parents...Young adult paranormal fiction succeeds on the basis of constantly unfolding paradigms and these two women have that requirement mastered. Whether or not adult readers will be able to overlook the discrepancies of reality that get a bit dodgy at times really makes no difference: this book is written for young adult readers and should satisfy those who crave paranormal fiction. Grady Harp, May 14