Review: Fresh & Original YA Paranormal Romance
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 18, 2012
Fate Fixed (The Erris Coven Series)Fascinating and delightful, this story moves so fast I was through almost before realizing it. By the end of the first page I had been caught up in the story and in Lexie's life, and it seemed I was watching her life from inside her mind rather than simply turning pages and reading about the happenings. I empathized immediately with Lexie, who is trying her very best to make lemonade from the several bad hands life has dealt: death of her father, intense sibling rivalry with her sister Ella, her own grief, her mother's grief; and now her mother's new marriage, bringing a stepdad and three new (and sometimes surly stepbrothers), plus a sudden move from the small Connecticut city where she has spent her whole life, to a large, isolated, Victorian home in Erris, Maine. What?! By this point about all she has of stability is her recurrent dreams of a handsome young man she finds in the forest-right before death stalks her. Not a very prepossessing beginning to her senior year of high school-alone without friends at a new school, new state.  Of course, change doesn't always mean changing for the better, and very quickly Lexie discovers that moving to Maine brings her both the desires of her heart-and extreme danger.I'm really impressed with this book. I know it's become difficult to write anything original in Paranormal, but I believe Bonnie Wheeler has managed it very well. Her spin on the creatures of the night is different and captivating. The story contains quite a few surprises, so no reader can say "I've read it all before." "Fate Fixed" is fresh, original, and captivating. Don't miss it.First in the "Erris Coven" series