Review: A riveting book
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 28, 2013
Let me start this review by saying that Eli Constant is an amazing author. I knew it the moment I started reading her novella DRAG.N, a riveting read. I've so been looking forward to reading Mastic even since I found out about its release; there were lots of reasons for it: the title itself made me curious, the covers of Mastic that I saw on facebook (all of them really cool), and the blurb which sounded like I was going to enjoy this book (which I did).I didn't expect to be pulled so strongly into the book from the first pages. I'm just not easy to impress. But the opening scene was really great, and I wanted more.Eli Constant is great at details that bring her characters to life. Renee, Mark, Kat, Vicky and Sara, they are like real people to me. Their relationships are true-to-life, never contrived or far-fetched. And you get to know these characters so well that you don't want to stop reading about them.The paranormal element works really well together with the legend the author used for this book. I enjoyed reading about the supernatural beings I'd never heard of before [no spoilers here, it's better to read about them in the book than in a review].Once I started reading Mastic, I couldn't stop thinking about it. Well done to the author! Now I really look forward to reading Dead Trees.