Review: Not a cookie cutter paranormal romance
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 10, 2013
Sarah has the "sight" as her family says, she sees things.  Most "things" are like where you left your car keys or make sure you check your tires sort of thing, helpful, but not all that exciting.  A few times, she's helped find missing children.  You start out thinking the author is going to prove Sarah's abilities to you, but Ms. Perry fools you.  This isn't really about her gift and her abilities.  Those are a given and no one needs to prove them.  What she does is paint a story of a scared young lady named Sarah, who through her "gift," has experienced loss and loneliness, even while being well-loved and protected by her family.Jordan is a reporter, trying to see if she's a fake and trying to prove her story.  He wonders why he's even bothering, considering SHE's not telling anyone.  She doesn't want recognition.  She wants anonymity.  But he finds he can't help but be drawn to her, her family and her hometown.  After wandering for years and loneliness so deep, he doesn't even realize he's lonely, he finds Sarah and her wacky family of cousins, kissing cousins and shirt-tail cousins.  But after he finds Sarah, so does someone else, someone who doesn't want to expose her, but wants to punish her.The secrecy and misunderstandings that normally plague cookie cutter romance aren't there.  You understand why everyone did what they did.  And unlike some stories, that will allow misunderstandings to fester and rot for decades, these people really speak to one another and learn from their mistakes.I liked this story a lot, as evidenced by the five stars.  It was not what I expected in a story.  Not at one point, could I see where it was going, or who the villain was.  Most stories hit you over the head with the man in the black hat.  For Sarah, the threat wasn't real enough for her to see there was even a villain.  If these things had happened to me, I'm sure I would have reacted in a similar manner, so in the end, when the villain was revealed, I was a bit surprised too, because I wasn't sure there was a villain either.I got this book free from Amazon, but it would have been worth the price of $2.99.