Author: Rachel McClellan
Genre: YA, Romance, Paranormal
Overall: ♥♥ ♥ 3/5
I’m dying, I thought. This was unexpected and not at all how I envisioned my death. I was supposed to die gardening in a flowerbed as a hundred-year-old woman, not as a seventeen-year-old trapped in a lake beneath inches of ice.
Llona Reese is used to living on the run. After the Vykens killed her parents, she knew they would eventually come for her too. She can’t take any chances. But when she starts to make friends for the first time in her life, she gets careless and lets her guard down. Big mistake.
As an Aura, Llona can manipulate light and harness its energy. But if she wants to survive, Llona will have to defy the Auran Council and learn to use her power as a weapon against the Vyken whose sole desire is to take her light. Now she’s caught in something even bigger than she can understand, with a power she can’t wield, and no one she can trust, except, just maybe, a mysterious stranger.
In this breathtaking and romantic adventure, Rachel McClellan delivers a truly mesmerizing story that will keep you guessing to the very end.
My thoughts
Llona
Reese lives with her uncle Jake, due to her parents death. They had
never stayed anywhere too long, but now Llona feels like settling down
in a little town called Bountiful. She is a social outcast by choice, too afraid to befriend anyone, because Llona has got a secret. She is an aura, someone gifted with the power of light and hunted by dark creatures: the Vykens, who also killed her mother. As
she tries to deal with her mother´s murder and her father´s deadly
accident, she meets Christian, a lovely boy who is just a little bit too
overprotective. And then there is Llonas new math teacher, whom she
just can´t seem to resist. Soon Llona finds herself being hunted by
the same Vyken who killed her mother and she realises: In her current
state she may not be able to stay alive...
I always adored stories in which the protagonists seem to have little power and slowly learn to unfold all their potential. It´s interesting to follow Llonas development, both in matters of power and social life. With each new page we get to know more about her and the world she lives in, grow with her, and discover together what it means to be an aura.
The relationship between Llona and Christian is a strange one. It didn´t feel forced, but the constant "we can´t be together"-drama was...well, annoying. So much so, that it kind of killed the vibe for me.
Another point I have to criticize: I found it rather obvious who the Vyken was. Right from the start actually. I had the hope that there was some kind of wicked trick to it, but in the end my suspicions were right and there was nothing more to it, which was very disappointing.
I enjoyed that the book deals with typical teeny problems, without being too childish about it (well, most of the time anyways). Of course teenagers make mistakes, but that surely doesn´t mean that they have to make every stupid mistake along the "growing-up-road".
I always adored stories in which the protagonists seem to have little power and slowly learn to unfold all their potential. It´s interesting to follow Llonas development, both in matters of power and social life. With each new page we get to know more about her and the world she lives in, grow with her, and discover together what it means to be an aura.
The relationship between Llona and Christian is a strange one. It didn´t feel forced, but the constant "we can´t be together"-drama was...well, annoying. So much so, that it kind of killed the vibe for me.
Another point I have to criticize: I found it rather obvious who the Vyken was. Right from the start actually. I had the hope that there was some kind of wicked trick to it, but in the end my suspicions were right and there was nothing more to it, which was very disappointing.
I enjoyed that the book deals with typical teeny problems, without being too childish about it (well, most of the time anyways). Of course teenagers make mistakes, but that surely doesn´t mean that they have to make every stupid mistake along the "growing-up-road".
In Short
A good read for YA paranormal- Fans, who like to
watch strong characters evolve.
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