Review: This definitely kept me guessing!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 2, 2013
I was given this book in exchange of a honest review.This story is about a 19-year-old woman who was on the run along with her family from the kidnappers when they were supposed to be on a vacation. Her dad was elected as a Congressman and her friend was telling her that she couldn't believe how perfect Paz's family was. Then Paz was almost kidnapped during the vacation.  She started to learn more things about her mom, meeting people in Paloma's (Paz's mom) past and struggling to understand the changes.I will like to say that I really enjoyed the book because I seriously enjoyed in the beginning but later on, after all that talking about politics (Nothing very specific, though) and religion, I started to be a little wary about how the book was going on. And I was still wondering why the book was titled that way until near the ending - I still think that the title could be something else even though I could see why the author chose it.  However, I almost didn't choose to read the book for a review because of the title alone - the cover design was what caught my eyes. I was an eager reader at the beginning and at the end, I was not any longer. It was definitely not how it was written (the format, style, etc.) but rather on the content itself.It wasn't a bad book overall, but I think it surprised me that there were political and religious themes in there that seemed to be a little stronger than I expected and how they approached these somewhat turned me off even though I think other readers would enjoy it more than I would. It saddened me because I love books that have a little or big paranormal element in it, especially this type.One thing I will tell you... When I was reading the book, I was definitely frustrated as Paz was.  I was thinking.. Ok, I can really understand where the character was coming from as she wasn't being told everything that she felt that she needed to know.  It's frustrating to read a book that only let readers on a need-to-know basis.  It doesn't happen often that I read a book like that and it did not rub me off the wrong way for the most part.  That was definitely one of the reasons why I was an eager reader from the beginning.  It was interesting and as I said when other elements appeared, it started to turn me off even though I was still wanting to know what was the heck going on in the book.  So if the next book appears, will I continue to read the next?  Maybe - I'm still curious about one thing that I didn't want to reveal in this story - but what Paz had in a paranormal sense was ancient and I wanted to know how that happened.