Seventh in our Heroes series, by our own Robert Rhodes. Art is courtesy of Barbara Brashier.
“You’re late, milady,” Aramis says even as she parts the silver curtain. He snaps shut his pocket watch and tucks it into his checkered vest, his white-tipped ginger tail swishing.
She shrugs and sits on the closest bench in the Armory. “My geology midterm’s tomorrow,” she says, unlacing her sneakers. (Did I forget to take them off? she wonders.) “It’s going to be hard. And besides,”
April 5th, 2010. Rob Rhodes | 20 Heroes | 1 comment |
The beginning of Possessed drops the reader right into the stifling life of Rayne, a young London teenager. Her relationships with her mother and boyfriend are dysfunctional, and she’s unable to find a moment’s peace amid the noise and crime of the city. Kate Cann does an excellent job of showing us Rayne’s frayed nerves and her desire to get out of her neighborhood by any means necessary. Desperate, she takes a live-in job at the country estate of Morton’s Keep.
As Rayne settles into her new life,
April 5th, 2010. Kelly Lasiter´s rating: 3 | Kate Cann | Young Adult | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Agree! And a perfect ending, too.
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