Star Crossed Series Bk. 1
Kayla Webber had been training to fight for the Light her entire
life. Demons she could handle, but she’d been ill-prepared to come face to face
with the man who haunted her dreams.
The time has come for Kaleb Warner to fulfill his shared destiny
with Kayla. There’s just one problem – she didn’t realize he even existed.
Will Kaleb be able to convince Kayla to combine their gifts to
fight against the Darkness, or will this star-crossed couple deny the truth in
their hearts?
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REVIEW:
RATING: 3.5
Stars
‘Solstice Surprise’ is a pleasant, enjoyable story, with characters
that are fun to get to know, facing serious danger with considerable
courage and equally considerable humor. In the prologue, we meet Kayla
Webber and Kaleb Warner as small children, teasing and chasing each
other. As they play, they talk about a way to keep their love alive
even if they are separated, with a lovely, short, children’s ceremony.
At the beginning of the story itself, Kayla is a young adult, a warrior
for the Light trained to fight demons, and she has come to believe that
Kaleb never really existed, that he had been her childhood’s ‘imaginary
friend’. On this night, however, she is about to learn otherwise.
Kaleb is another warrior for the Light, and he has been assigned to
conduct the next phase of Kayla’s training. For the rest of that night –
and the rest of the story – the pair begin to learn each other’s skills
and how to blend them together, while they start rebuilding their
childhood friendship on more adult terms, fighting demons along the way.
There aren’t very many surprises in ‘Solstice Surprise’, but watching
these two reconstruct a children’s friendship that was destined to
become much more serious in their adulthood, struggling with various
demons, some of which originated inside either Kayla or Kaleb, is
interesting and fun. The situations are serious, and the struggles
faced by this attractive couple are compelling but crossed with enough
humor to keep things fun to read. Reading of their further adventures
as an adult couple should be very enjoyable. I would have preferred a
higher level of tension, and perhaps a little more solid information
about the characters’ backgrounds, especially Kaleb’s, but, all told, it
was a nicely readable story.
I give ‘Solstice Surprise’ 3.5 stars; I like the characters and the
situation, but would have enjoyed a little more solid feel to the
threats they have to face. Hopefully, this will come in future stories,
I’m grateful for the free reviewer’s copy I was given.
Reviewed by: Roberta
