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Daemons In The Mist (2013)

by Alicia Kat Vancil(Favorite Author)

3.9 of 5 Votes: 2

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Korat Publishing

series

The Marked Ones Trilogy

review 1: I revived this book through goodreads. I would like to thank the author for the copy of this wonderful book. REVIEWWow! This is an extremely unique and new story for me. I enjoyed this book very much. I felt evereything the characters felt, and I felt as if I was there with them the whole way. Let me say, this book proves that love conquers all no matter what or who you are, not matter the circumstances. This book is a mix of Paranoramal, action, love, and romance, and full of unexpected twists and turns that ultimately will keep you glued to the book. To the Author - Alicia Kat Vancil, you did a remarkable job on this book! I look forward to the next book.
review 2: TLDR: This book made me feel like a kid again through the skillful use of subtle quality writ... moreing that actually made me worry and guess about characters I had really grown to like. Read this book.The author of this book is a friend of mine, and she had me read it because definitely NOT the target audience. She figured I'd be much more brutal and blunt since this kind of book is definitely not the kind I've ever read before, except Twilight more out of morbid curiosity at best. So with that piece of garbage as my only reference I was a bit hesitant, but she's got some dirt on me so I stuck it up.My mental stages went like this:At first I was pleasantly surprised that the teenagers actually ACTED like teenagers. It's always hard to portray them because they aren't as experienced, and of course have not "come of age", but many authors considered great translate this into: "Acts like an idiot". But this is far from the case, real teenagers make plenty of rational decisions, and many of the naive or inexperienced mistakes they DO make are subtle and not as cliché as television and movies would like us to believe. I've always been a big fan of the authors who went out of their way to give real personality and realism to their characters. They make logical choices, or at least have an explained logic to their reasonings. "The Sword of Truth" series does this really well when it's not getting too preachy.After this initial courting stage I become guiltily engrossed. I don't know about everyone else but when characters are real enough you feel almost like a peeping tom spying on all their goings on. It doesn't help this book manages to be completely hot and heavy at times without ever resorting to any actual Mature content. This in and of itself is something of a miracle, I found myself thinking "This can't be kosher for something like this." but upon further reflection it manages to be sinfully dirty while remaining teasingly virtuous. That feeling of course is ridiculously tantalizing and frustrating. But so was being a teenager.As the narrative finally dug it's delicious claws into me I found that there was plenty of things I could easily predict, clichés in character, but it never hurt the story because they made sense. Moreso then not I also found myself being surprised. Me, the guy who gets popcorn thrown at him because I can predict every twist in any piece of media, surprised. I'm not sure how she did it exactly, but I suppose it rolls back into my earlier insinuations that this author has the perfect capability of being subtle. That might seem sort of weird but if you REALLY reflect on that you can see that this is an amazing quality. For someone like me (Or you), whose read and seen it all, to feel like a kid again. To feel that magic of being genuinely surprised. I almost forgot what it feels like.I won't spoil those surprises of course, and talking too much about the ending parts would give a lot away. If I had one constant nag to the author as a I read (Because I totally had that privilege), I pointed out lots of loose ends and hanging plot points. It ANNOYED ME TO NO END, until finally she said "You know there's going to be a sequel right?".I badger her every day about that sequel and she absolutely refuses to tell me the outline of it.Probably for the best really, no matter how much it drives me crazy. less

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