Review: Sometimes you need to be stripped of who you are to truly find who you were born to be...
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 5, 2012
Syd finally is free of her powers. She has everything she wanted. She is finally normal. But instead of finding happiness she feels more alone than ever and feels more cut off from her own life. Even her own family aren't fighting her need for normalcy anymore. Worse, they not only seem to accept her normalcy but leave her out of family business. Isn't this what she always wanted? So then why does she suddenly feel so empty and without purpose?In this fourth chapter of The Hayle Coven series Sydlynn Hayle has finally got everything she wanted and fought for. She is finally independent of her own conflicts, her family and her destiny. She is free to create her own destiny and go her own way. But then why, when she finally has everything she thought she always wanted, is everything falling apart? Is normality really all its cracked up to be?This fourth chapter in Syd's story has her fighting to get back what she wanted to lose in the first place. But first she has to fight to be heard. She has to now convince everyone in her life that she was wrong. But nobody seems to listen. Not only that but she keeps on having these dreams that she knows she should understand but cannot. As she feels cut off from everyone in her own family, she is forced to question everything she knows as truth to find the key to fixing everything.There are even greater mysteries at work as she realises her family is battling an even greater conflict that makes her own conflicts seem paltry in comparison. But is Syd truly powerless? Or has the sacrifice of her own identity birthed a newer power? Syd is faced with even more questions that she has to ask herself. As Syd realises she is seemingly powerless, she finally comes to accept who she truly is. She finally knows who she wants and what she wants but it may be too late. She is in a race against time to save not only her lost self, but the boy she now knows is meant for her, and as much as she may be powerless this will not stop her in trying to saving her family from the very dangerous ancient threat of destruction.Patti Larsen has once again crafted a plot that is a maze of twists and turns. Just when you think you have this story figured out, she throws you another curveball. I love reading a book that has me guessing until the last page and wondering, heart in throat, whether there is enough time to save everyone. Patti weaves even more layers of mystery into Syd's story. Will Syd finally get the answers she has been searching for? Or has her fight for independence been the ultimate sacrifice not only of herself but of everything she knows and loves? Read this fourth chapter of The Hayle Coven series to find out.