Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from June, 2012

A Discovery of Self

Many could ride this off as an adult version of Twilight but that couldn’t be further from the truth. This book, story isn’t just about a girl falling for a vampire. This is a book about a witch who has been blinded by her parents, her aunts and everyone else in the magical community about who she is and what she can do – all saying for her own protection.   Even though that does turn out to be true, for anyone that would come as a shock that you were sheltered from who you are – sheltered from the truth. This first book in the series is about Diana and the search for her self.   Yes, she is attached to a vampire by the hip but the vampire doesn’t make her who she is – she is the only one that can do that.   I had an immediate reaction to Bella in Twilight and to Katniss in Hunger Games.   With Diana, there was no initial reaction of I liked her or didn’t like her. I was indifferent toward her and the same with Matthew.   With each new supernatural book I read, another element k