Review: Beware - Addictive Storyline!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 23, 2013
I was lucky enough to receive a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. Dissever is a book with a great hook. The characters are believable, to the point where you could easily see some of them as your friends, or lust objects :-)When we first meet Addy, Gage, Matt, Kim, Renee, Fate, and eventually Tanner, we are quickly drawn into their lives. Addy is the last in the human Sanders family line, the family which holds all the power by controlling the Overseer's Stone. This artifact was created by the two most powerful Akori ever known, Eva and Andrew. And the stone is a point of contention between factions of the Akori since it not only controls where Tremain goes, but it also controls the amount of power that any Akori can wield without Scattering.The Akori are a long-lived people, and those that live in the realm of Tremain and humans can't be killed, they can only be Scattered. And the two ways that an Akori can Scatter are by being hit with special Akori weapons, or using too much of their power at once.Addy has been lived in Tremain her entire life, being raised by her grandfather, Fate, and the others that live at Tremain. She is not alone in questioning her ability to control the Overseer's Stone when Fate eventually dies since the Overseer's Stone has always been controlled by a male Sanders. But she tries not to dwell on it, instead she happily spends her time on the beach, the first warm place that Tremain has ever appeared. With the powers of the Overseer's Stone and other Akori, Fate and his helpers are able to mask the arrival of the Tremain estate so that no one ever suspects it hasn't always been in whichever location they move to each time.Addy and Kim are human, while Gage, Matt, and Renee, are Akori. But this doesn't stop Kim from falling hard for Mattie. And if Addy is honest with herself, she has strong feelings for Gage - or at least she did until he stopped paying any attention to her around his 16th birthday, which would have been when Addy was about 11. Now she tells herself she no longer cares about Gage as anything more than a friend. At least until he starts paying attention to her again. Then she slips right back into her childhood hero-worship of Gage, but with a more mature slant.When they first arrive at the beach Addy and Kim notice a guy hanging around that just doesn't look like he belongs on the beach. He is wearing long dark pants, a dark concert T-shirt, and sporting long hair pulled back in a messy manner.Addy keeps seems him around and they eventually talk. And once Addy meets Tanner, everything spirals out of control, for the humans and the Akori on both sides.Ms. Firman has used our world and added some truly interesting features to make it her world. Her characters are well written, developing at a pace that matches the arc of the story, and pulling the reader into their story oh so easily. This book is one of those pick it up and hope you've eaten because it isn't coming out of your hand until you've finished reading it - sleep becomes just a concept. And exciting ride that will leave you hanging until you grab the next book - which thankfully there is no wait for at this point!