“This,” he said without the least drama or emphasis, “is about true and
false. Right and wrong. Good and evil. And justice, Mara. This is about justice. And balance.
And…” He nodded as if to himself
rather than to me. “… and redemption.”
Mara has awoken and all she knows is her name. She doesn’t remember what happened, where she
is, where she’s supposed to be, or even if she’s just dreaming. All she knows is her name, Mara and she
clings to it. Another thing she knows is
that this ethereally beautiful and menacing boy/guy in all black is someone you
don’t mess with, and for a while she calls him the Messenger of Fear. Slowly he shows her a young girl who is dead,
and they figure out it was a suicide; but why did she kill herself? Mara needs to know, she needs to who is
responsible and when she finds out she has no mercy. You see the Messenger of Fear comes to people
during a time in their life that they did something really really bad, and knew
it was bad before they did it. I am not
talk about petty things either. The
Messenger gives them two choices, play a game of chance or accept your
punishment (of course if you lose the game of chance you still receive your
punishment). The game is also extremely
intense and tends to be gruesome. The point
of the matter is that all of us do something that we know will have dire
consequences, and what separates us is how we react to those situations. Some of us will do the right thing, and
others will pretend like they didn’t know.
A good example is for instance if you ran over a dog. Most people would stop and call the police
and report it (because, it’s a crime to drive away from the scene of an
accident), but there might be a few who think that no one some them and they
drive away. The second group of people
is the one the Messenger of Fear visits.
This was a such a creepy story, and it had everything I
liked. It had a pale good looking guy,
who wears all black, and exudes predator.
Nightmares are a real thing in this book, and overall the theme/message
of being a good person, of right and wrong.
I really hope to follow more of Mara’s story, find out more about the
Messenger of Fear, and watch them find redemption. A great beginning of a series.
Thank You Edelweiss.
4 out of 5 stars
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