Series: The Fray Theory #1
Author: Nelou Keramati
Genre: Fantasy/Paranormal
Age group: Young Adult
Pages: 332 (PDF)
Publication date: August 31st 2016
The author kindly provided me with a free copy in exchange for an honest review.
Synopsis from Resonance's Goodreads page
Neve Knightly lives in an ordinary world. Where déjà vu is nothing more than a mind-trick. Where premonitions are dismissed as mere coincidence. Where no one thinks twice about the glitches in their reality.Neve Knightly is living a lie. But when her nightmare of a tragedy comes true the very next day, she can no longer seek solace in self-deception. The glossy enamel has been shattered, and she has caught a glimpse of what slithers just beneath the surface.
She now has the opportunity to decipher the enigma that’s been haunting her since childhood. But her quest soon becomes deeply entangled with the last two people she could have ever imagined: the love of her life, Dylan, who mysteriously vanished three years ago, and his estranged best friend, Romer, who seems to be guarding a secret of his own.
Romance, rancor, and redemption plummet as priorities, as their lives become riddled with peculiar happenings lying just outside the realm of science. And in search for salvation, they emerge at the brink of unveiling the best-kept secret in human history.
I want to start off by saying that the author, Nelou Keramati, so kindly reached out to me out of the blue and offered me an ARC PDF copy, which I was and still am so thankful for. I had never heard of this book until she reached out to me, and I am SO glad that she did.
The cover for this book as well, is just...it's just beautiful. And the author did the artwork herself!! (Can I be like half as talented as you? You're amazing and I love your work so insanely much!)
This novel stars off with one kick-ass main character, Neve. I loved her. I thought that she was just the right amount of intense, bad-ass, but also still very sweet and her humour? I loved it. She actually made me laugh out loud.
The two other main-type characters are Dylan and Romer, of whom I love both. (I'm not sure who I would pick though if I'm forced to). They both have strong back-stories that connect to each other as well as to Neve, and I thought that the connections were very strong and held a lot of power in the novel. Some novels make relationships between characters feel forced, but I didn't feel like this at all while reading this novel.
As well as a kick-ass, strong protagonist and two well developed (and very cute) possible love interests, the plot of this story was well developed. The writing was well done, and although it did feel like some parts dragged a little (it's the first in a paranormal series - it dragged a bit because of setting everything up, which is totally normal and it was well done in this case) I enjoyed this book, and I feel that the rest of the books in this series should be just as good if not even better!
(Please send me the next book?!)
Overall - ★★★★☆
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