Review: Engaging and mysterious - this is a story that will keep you reading.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 27, 2014
If you have read any of Mila A. Ballentine’s works before, you know that she has a tendency to entertain themes and genres that won’t sit still nor subject themselves to labeling.  “Spent Lives” proves no exception to that rule.  Part mystery, part drama with dashes of romance – it is a tale that will leave you both satisfied, and a bit unnerved.While shorter than some of her other offerings, this book lacks little in terms of completion or build up.  Orbiting the lives of a handful of people on Reignier Island it weaves the tale of how fates combine, intertwine and ultimately fall out.  Intriguing and fast paced, each word is important as many serve as hints to the culmination of what turns out to be a fifty year journey.Considering that I have read, and fallen in love, with many of Ballentine’s novels, it says something that this book has jumped to the top of that list to become my favorite from this prolific author.  A must for anyone who love mysteries, modern fiction and second chance romance.