The Dawning of Scarlett
by Jennifer
Osborn
GENRE: YA
Paranormal
BLURB:
Expecting her Dawning to be impossible, she accepts the fact that she will become a rogue, forever hunted by revenant renegades and outcast by her own people. Scarlett thinks she’s prepared for this—until the curly-haired Nicholas Lightener walks into her life and asks her out on a date.
Torn between her feelings for Nick and the danger of the revenant world, Scarlett’s strange life is turned inside-out when she’s kidnapped and forced to do the one thing she swore she’d never do. Plus, she has no idea whose memories keep appearing in her dreams, or if they can even help her. Determined to free herself from a death sentence, Scarlett must fight to become who she was born to be.
EXCERPT:
His lips freeze in surprise for a moment, warm and tasting like salt, but they quickly yield to mine. Before I know it, his surprise melts into participation, and he kisses me back. It's all pleasantly confusing, and I feel dizzy. My blood pounds wildly in my veins and I'm worried my eyes are going to change out of excitement. But before I can pull back, he does first, and his breath is hot on my cheek.
I keep my eyes down, for fear of what they might show. I glance up at the artery in his neck, veiled by the paper-thin skin of a human. The blood moves in thick shots and I hear his heart pounding. I feel the urge to let my canines drop and lean over to bite him. I've learned to control myself so much around humans that I'm able to push the desire down. But he gives off the most intoxicating smell. I find myself wondering what his blood would taste like. It's odd to even think about, because I don't even need blood right now, but he's somehow attracting me in a way I don't understand. It's a strange desire to bite-not to hurt, not even to drink, but to bite. I can't make sense of it.
MY REVIEW:
Scarlett is a young who wants nothing more out of life but
to live a “normal life” which to her means having friends and a boyfriend. But
Scarlett has been denied these things for most of her life. Scarlett has been
trained by her uncle Chasem in martial arts and to always be prepared no matter
what. You see in less than a year Scarlett will be seventeen years old and will
be of dawning age. But her biological father Apollo will never let her live to
see this day if he can stop it. He will never let her dawn.
Chasem has always known this that is why he has given his
whole to training Scarlett to always be on guard and to always look over her
shoulder. Instead of teaching her about the day she dawns and what that consist
of he has taught her how to defend herself and to win. He has taught her never
to give up no matter what.
But everything changes and starts a whole new path for
Scarlett when she meets the cute Nick whom she is attacked to right way. Nick
falls head over hills for Scarlett right off the bat. Nick cares so much for
Scarlett that he will do whatever it takes to make her his for life. Chasem warns
Scarlett that they are too young for such a commitment but Scarlett can’t seem
to get this in her head. Scarlett is a person that when she cares about someone
her feelings go deep and they are for life. She has a great big heart and cares
about everyone and doing the right thing for everyone involved.
Scarlett is determined to live and her biological father
Apollo is determined that she will not. Who will win out in the end? Will it be
Scarlett? Will it be ApolIo? Is she strong enough to go up against all the revenant
renegades and her father?
I do like reading a good vampire story but I think The
Dawning of Scarlett tops that list by a land slide. The Dawning of Scarlett is
unlike any vampire novel I have read in the past. The Dawning of Scarlett is
fill with a lot of great characters both good and bad that will take you to a
world that you have probably never been before. It will reach out and grab a
hold of you and will not let go until you have the last page. You will be so
immersed in Scarlett’s world that you will think that you are like a shadow following
her around. You will feel what she is feeling. Jennifer Osborn knows how to
create a story that jumps right off the page at you and swallows you up and
spits you out right into Scarlett’s world.
AUTHOR BIO:
After
working in the legal and technical fields for many years, Jennifer Osborn took
the plunge into full time writing in 2015. She is the award-winning author of
The Shilund Saga and The Sentinel’s Insurgency.
When not writing, she listens to a different muse and creates paintings
and collages of all sorts.
She
lives in the Cincinnati area with her husband, three dogs and two cats.
You
can find out more about her at
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