This is a supernatural thriller and due to the language,
intimate scenes and violence is suitable for adults. Unless of course you
happen to be an extremely mature young adult.
Shay is a comic book artist and has had a rough time of it
recently. Her ex-fiancee Aiden keeps popping back into her life and then
disappearing again, and the person who keeps putting her back together is her
on-again/off-again lover Eli. She could just ditch Aiden and love Eli, but his
drinking habits are tearing them apart. On the night of her birthday Shay has a
dream involving a character in her comic - the Sanguine Specter. He targets
people Shay doesn't get on with and kills them in over the top ways while declaring
his love for her. Shay uses these nightmare images to make her comics come
alive. When her neighbours are killed the police come round to question Shay
and discover the comic graphics - identical to the murder that has just
happened. Shay now becomes the main suspect in the police investigation as
connections start being made with her images and previous murders. Enter McNab,
a paranormal investigator, who is determined to find the supernatural being
targeting Shay. Will Aiden and Eli be able to work together long enough to help
Shay stay out of the clutches of the being, let alone the police?
This is a really intriguing idea for a story and only half
way through did I realise that I missed a previous book, as a lot of questions
about characters arose. I liked the way that the story's chapters are told from
different character's viewpoints so that you understand different perspectives.
I felt the characters weren't quite developed enough, but with a number of
follow up books to this I'm sure that a lot more will be explained and that the
cliff-hanger will have the ending readers are hoping for. Some editing and
spelling mistakes were off putting but on the whole, a good job.
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