Review: Mindblowing, spell weaving tell that will leave you enchanted!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 28, 2012
What first attracted me about this book was the story's premise. A woman who can hear statues talk. Totally out there and never been done before. I'll admit. It sucked me in right away. Another thing I found interesting was that she introduced the villain on page 9. I rather liked that. Even though I lost some of the suspense that would have been there had she revealed the villain later, I think that it worked better to have the villain revealed so early. The villain is incredibly intriguing and seeing a glimpse into their head so early into the book was actually a compelling thing to read. I wanted to read on to see more of the villain, even though I hadn't yet gotten to fully appreciate the heroine or hero as characters.I really enjoyed the way the author portrayed the heroine. She gave her a past as a mousy little girl, with weird issues who hid from the world. I think a lot of female readers can really relate to that sort of heroine. I know I did. I immediately liked her all the more for such a background and it made me really interested to find out how the hero would fall in love with such a girl.I knew I would like the hero straight away, with a name like Grant Wolverton. It had all the earmarkings of an excellent hero name. But I loved even more how the Grant and the heroine Delia had a backstory and how the Grant she was encountering now after her house burned down, is a different man, more cold, jaded. Of course, the plot line where he buys the house from her and plans to renovate it back to its old glory, with Delia's overseeing, makes for excellent tension between the two characters.The most enchanting part of the story is perhaps how Grant and Delia interact with the house itself. The house seems to be its own character, as do the statues in the graveyard that Delia talks to. The entire book seems to cast a spell around the reader as the read on and watch the house's history unfold in small bits and pieces and see how Grant and Delia fall for each other through their mutual love of the house.