Toward A Secret Sky - Heather Mclean
- Jun 6, 2017
- 2 min read
Blurb
Shortly after 17-year-old Maren Hamilton is orphaned and sent to live with grandparents she's never met in Scotland, she receives an encrypted journal from her dead mother that makes her and everyone around her a target. It confirms that her parents were employed by a secret, international organization that's now intent on recruiting her. As Maren works to unravel the clues left behind by her mother, a murderous madness sweeps through the local population, terrorizing her small town. Maren must decide if she'll continue her parents' fight or stay behind to save her friends. With the help of Gavin, an otherworldly mercenary she's not supposed to fall in love with, and Graham, a charming aristocrat who is entranced with her, Maren races against the clock and around the country from palatial estates with twisted labyrinths to famous cathedrals with booby-trapped subterranean crypts to stay ahead of the enemy and find a cure. Along the way, she discovers the great truth of love: that laying down your life for another isn't as hard as watching them sacrifice everything for you.
Review
I do not like writing bad reviews. I'm not going to start now. Or maybe I am. I nearly DNF'd this book. Which that is not what I'm about. So I pushed through it, hoping it would get better. I did, slightly. But not enough that I would really recommend this to anyone as a must read. The writing is slow and things aren't as developed as they had seemed in the blurb. The instalove and a complete character change were a turn off that's for sure. I just didn't like how that went. It gave me a little whiplash in the process. It was a one page switch. You could tell that this is a debut novel for this author. Now, I did go and look through the list of other books she's listed on. So yes, I realize she's done other things. But YA, isn't easy to do. There is definitely a good story in this, its just hidden. I will probably give the second book in the series a read, to see if the writing has evolved. So, according to the author this was written more for a 7th and 8th audience. I can completely see that!
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