Review: Preparing for the final battle
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 12, 2013
I enjoyed the first book inspite of some language and grammar discrepancies. I really got into this one. The girls and their mates for life are all best friends. They learn about their powers and begin to sharpen them with structured training and as is typical with young friends, when they find out that one of their group is well beyond their own station in life, problems occur not with the royal but the perception of her friends. The genuine love they have for one another keeps them together and humbled after a major episode by the one who is least secure. The future queen struggles with the strictures placed on her by her noble  position. She manages with the help of the prince who first becomes her fiancee whom she later learns is the real child of her earthly parents.She is not the earthling she always thought herself to be . She had been  sent to earth as a babe, hidden from those who threaten the planet she now calls home so that when she came of age she and her friends all of whom have special and unique gifts( which properly strengthened and utilized) could save this place  and have returned to fulfill  her destiny. It's an entirely different world but they know they belong there. They have a mission that can only be accomplished with their special skills and those of their diverse countrymen and women who come in all sizes, shapes, colors and species.  Such beautiful mythical creatures that until now they had not thought of as real and some not heard of before their awakening and arrival are now a part of their everyday lives. Vibrant intelligent and strong, they add to the whole experience.The sister of the their mentor and also a rival by a feud, long before the girls were born, who of course is evil, very powerful and who has dominated the planet until now is intent on killing them.The princess and legitimate future queen and her prince and future king are under strong spell cast upon them by the evil one during an attacktheir engagement celebration. We enter the story to find each in a coma or deep sleep reliving in their minds the events that lead to their present conditions of which they are not aware as we begin. Sometime later they awaken, drained and weakened but determined to find and destroy her.Their training continues as soon as they regain some of their strength.  They grow in skill and power  beyond what they believe of themselves. A resentment grows unknown within the new characters involved. Plans are made for the final battle and this part of the story ends with the most astounding and unexpected of all events. Is their cause lost or will more twists and turns await our heroines?I look forward to the conclusion of this trilogy and judging from the first 2 books in the trilogy, it looks as if we are in for a final powerful adventure. Waiting is difficult.  I have book three and hope that it is of the same value and worth the wait. Thank You, Ms. MacDonald . I look forward to more of your work.