When the one thing you live for is taken from you, do you let it go or do you fall?
Life takes a turn for the better when she meets Avan, a darkly handsome new student who, somehow, seems to drown out the voice and make her feel at ease.
But Jade soon comes to realize that good things don’t last forever. When everything spirals out of control, she is shattered by something she never saw coming. Dazed and despairing, she must now overcome tragedy and embrace her true existence and a new but dangerous love. Will she be able to save herself and those she loves, before it’s too late? Or will she let the surrounding darkness consume her?
Jade, like any other student at Brushwood High, awaits the start of the school year with a certain measure of dread. Worse, she is being threatened by a voice that only she can hear—a voice that lurks at the edges of her awareness, haunting her and warning her of something unknown. She has always been able to count on her two best friends, Claire and Nate, but can she confide in them now? About this? Would they even believe her?
Paranormal Romance is always a fun genre to read, but what made my read of FEATHERMORE so special is entering it knowing it’s paranormal, but having no clue what kind. The blurb hints that Jade would discover something cool, something otherworldly, but I didn’t know if it would be her, or the mysterious boy she meets. For the first time in a long time, I was unsure if it would be a paranormal tale involving vampires, fae, wolves, shape shifters, or angels. Okay, I admit I had my suspicions based on the title, but red herrings are rampant in all things entertainment. So since I enjoyed going into this read completely blind, I’ll allow you to enter it the same way. Let’s just say that Ms. Swing developed a rich world that in an ocean of paranormal books still managed to surprise me with several unique twists, and an intriguing plot that was exciting to get lost in, and in the end, left me completely breathless.
FEATHERMORE centers on Jade, an everyday girl entering her senior year. She has two best friends, Nate and Claire, and is wonderfully, beautifully average. Then, the creepy enters. She starts hearing a freaktastic whisper in a strange, unintelligible language. She has dreams of a dark-haired gorgeous stranger, and visions of impending danger. And when she goes to her first day back at school, so meets new kid Avan, yummy and delicious.
Avan enters as a mystery and kinda remained that way to me. He did some things that made me uncomfortable and question his loyalty, and he did things that were unbelievably swoon-worthy. But all the characters were a bit of a mystery, and I think maybe that is what makes them rock. They aren’t one-dimensional easy reads. They surprised me. All of them—Avan and Jade, Nate and Claire, and Lilith, and most especially, Blake.
The pacing was fantastic…the beginning built things perfectly, kept me engaged, and then half way through when tragedy struck, everything seemed to go on fast forward. And the freaking ending???? CRAZY!!!!!
FEATHERMORE kept me guessing. Lucy Swing had me laughing, smiling, and at times, unbelievably sad. And the end will have you jumping in your chair, pounding on your e-reader for more.
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Lucy Swing lives in sunny Florida with her husband and two children.
She is a YA Paranormal/ Romance writer, whose works include: Feathermore #1 (Feathermore Trilogy), Bloody Valentine, the novella, and Bloody Valentine is also offered in “Death by Chocolate,” an anthology consisting of 6 fantastic YA short stories with a chocolaty twist.
She is an absolute book hoarder and must always have a book at arms distance. Music is her muse, and there is always a soundtrack that plays along her life.
For more information on Lucy Swing please visit her website: http://www.LucySwing.com
