I was unsure in the beginning, thinking the characters were
a bit like Twilight. Just little things like the cars; the build of the
characters; the heroine living alone with her dad; all of the new family in
town being super attractive. But that is as far as it really goes, and I can’t
slate her for there being a few similarities, as no book can possibly lack
similarities to anything else.
This is not Twilight. This book is too… There is something
different about it. It’s less easy going. I don’t know how Josephine does it,
but the story is told in a pace that shouldn’t work yet it does. It got my
heart pounding. One minute the characters were in love and together, the next
they couldn’t; one minute she was leading a semi-normal life, the next she has
discovered why all the crazy stuff was going on. It gave the story an edge that
you don’t get in many books. You don’t have to read through the dull boring bit
until you get to the good, because she manages to make it all exciting yet
still allow the audience to follow the story. Brilliant writing, especially for
a first novel.
I thought that the whole story was about the two characters having to hate each other (well, wanting to kill each other!), although they were truly in love. Surprisingly, that hating part was resolved quite soon and a bigger story was developed. I know that there is a lot more to come in this trilogy, and I honestly can’t wait for the other books in the series to be published.
I think that if you like the supernatural and all things
like that, then you should definitely give this book a try! It is scary at
times (kind of). Not make you drop the book and run type, but just ghosts
(spirits, phantom things) here and there. The storyline is brilliant and, like
I said before, you can see how it can be developed over another two books. Even
if you just want something to pass the time, I would say this book definitely
does that and at an affordable price too – bonus.
