Review: Excellent YA paranormal story
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 26, 2013
This book is well written and well edited, only a few small typos that did not detract from the story. The material is well researched and if some artistic license was taken with the individual personalities, it doesn't lessen the impact of the cleverly disguised history lesson presented.The story is about a teenager, Tess, who lives with her Aunt, her Aunt's husband and her two cousins. Her father left when she was three and her mother died when she was eight. The uncle is abusive and the book opens with her sneaking into the garage to loosen the lug nuts on his tire so he'll have an accident in his vintage auto on the way to work and hopefully die. She can't do it, though, so she and her cousins are shocked when he actually has exactly that happen the next day. They are all relieved to be free of his tyranny, but can't stay where they are without his income. Aunt Amy moves them all back to Connecticut, to her mother's house. As they're travelling, Tess sees a vision of the last train car getting into an accident, so she hustles her family off that car, but goes back for her cat. She's caught in the wreck with a metal pin into her brain through her forehead. After she wakes up, she sees auras around people and has more visions and other weird things that she can't explain.The story follows her as she remembers that she was a witch and lived in this same town in the 1600's'. Some people help her learn her powers. There are also bad witches who are out to get her, however they can. It's hard enough to be a teenager but now you add on paranormal powers and lethal enemies? And some kind of apocalyptic battle....Wait just a minute now, all Tess really wanted was to fit in at her new school, and maybe a boyfriend. She ends up getting a lot more than she bargained for.Heat factor mild.