Review: Fabulous beginning!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 8, 2014
Review courtesy All Things Urban FantasySomething I love about the paranormal world lately is that authors seem to be shying away from copycat success and really taking paranormal elements and, to quote Rose Hathaway, making them their bitch. TWISTED MIRACLES is a good example. Larrieu takes some elements of mind magic, adds a few twists of her own and makes a wholly enjoyable universe.I think what I enjoyed most about TWISTED MIRACLES were the characters. Cass has power she doesn’t want and tries to run away from it. That works about as well as it ever does because there’s something different about her powers. Something destructive. Larrieu does a good job of making this difference a hurdle Cass has to jump rather than something that tickles the Mary Sue nerve. Cass struggles with what she is, with what she can do (and has done) and then has to work even harder to control it. She makes good and bad choices along the way, which makes for a great trip into her universe.The supporting characters are just as richly developed as Cass. Shane, Lionel and Bruce, Mina and Jackson all add to the TWISTED MIRACLES universe with their own spin on how they see the world in general and their converter community specifically. I had to warm up a little to Shane but I did eventually. He’s trying to understand Cass, and his initial doubt just gives him more depth – much more than the automatic “I believe you, baby” would have.And for anyone who’s read Larrieu’s novella, Anchored…yes, there’s a cameo.It might have taken me a little time for TWISTED MIRACLES to put its hooks into me, but once it did, I was a goner and I’ll be anxiously awaiting the next in the series.