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Sixteen-year-old Leah Grant has given up on being normal. She’d settle for stopping the voices in her head, intrusive visions of the future, and better odds of making it to her seventeenth birthday.
That’s the thing about pretending to be human in a world where magic used to exist – at any moment, her cover could be blown and she’ll be burned to death like the rest of the witches.
Everything changes when she loses control of her powers and flees the orphanage she grew up in. She desperately wants to be invisible but finds her face plastered on every news channel as humans panic over the possible resurgence of her kind. And now the hunters won’t give up until they find her.
Making friends for the first time in her life and falling in love with one of them drives her to discover why she is unlike any being she’s ever met – human or otherwise. The dangerous powers inside of her that would repel Nathan, her new, handsome reason for living, are priceless to some. The locked up forever kind of priceless. And to others, they are too dangerous to allow her to live.
Let’s hope she can stay hidden.
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Toot's Review by Stacy Sabala
Leah is an orphan whose parents died in the war against
magic beings. Most of the children here
are her age as many humans died during that time. But is she really human? She is developing powers that she doesn’t
understand. She believes, with the help
of the nuns, she must be evil and continually prays to be good. She becomes a loner trying to hide her
abilities, which causes all the girls to think she is a freak. As a result, they bully her. She quietly ignores them as best as she can
and controls the murderous rage she feels.
Then one day she has had enough and snaps. She wants to burn them and the rage takes
over. Before she has a chance to harm
anyone, a witch appears who convinces her to stop and come with her. She disappears instantly from school with
everyone watching and ends up in New
Orleans with Sophia, the witch. Leah learns that she is not supposed to be
Leah but Christine and enters the realm of magic. She now has two shifters, a witch, and a
wizard as roommates.
Wanting to be a new person instead of the evil Leah, she
becomes Christine and starts coming out of her self imposed exile. She enjoys the social interaction between her
new friends. She is awkward but she
continues to try. She even falls in
love. Her life turns into something
wonderful. Of course nothing is as it
seems. What she believed to be the truth
of her parents’ deaths and her life is wrong.
The truths all come crashing around her and the lines between friends
and enemies blur. Christine is left with
just herself to trust.
I loved this book.
This is the first in the Hidden series.
It kept me guessing and puzzling what was going to happen next. Leah/Christine was a tortured character and
the reader instantly feels for her. I
was glad when she got away from school and didn’t look back. The love she feels
makes the reader say “finally”. Her
self-loathing was enough to want to shake her.
Her story is tragic, just not in the way you may think. The twist was not what I expected and the
ending was a little bittersweet. I would
recommend this to everyone.
5 out of 5 books.
5 out of 5 books.
Author Info
M. Lathan lives in San Antonio with her husband and mini-schnauzer. She enjoys writing and has a B.S. in Psych and a Masters in Counseling. Her passion is a blend of her two interests – creating new worlds and stocking them with crazy people. She enjoys reading anything with interesting characters and writing in front of a window while asking rhetorical questions … like her idol Carrie Bradshaw.
Author Links
Website: http://mlathan.blogspot.ca/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/hiddenseries
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Thanks so much for joining the tour! This is a great review. I love the details. I totally agree with you about that "finally" feeling. She gets hammered in the first part of the book and when it's over you just want to celebrate for her. Thanks again :)
ReplyDeleteGreat review, chickie! I like the MC already she sounds like a character who really grabs you. I'm glad you enjoyed it! :)
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