Celestials, witches and avarice for power combine in this
thoroughly entertaining paranormal romance.
Alandra Michaels is the older child of a highly respected
and powerful family of witches. Her sister, Jess, is a prodigy with abilities
to control fire. Alandra is however a disappointment to the family. Her powers
are so low that she is almost a null. Power is something inherent and Alandra
is not exactly responsible for her lack of it but her parents are ashamed of
Alandra’s lack of powers and miss no opportunity to cut her (however
well-garbed the slashes of verbal abuse are) with it. To add to her
not-too-happy existence, her human girlfriend has also chosen to leave Alandra
for a job in another city leaving the witch grief-stricken. Her ray of light in
all this is her loving and supportive sister. When Jess asks Alandra to perform
the ritual of blessing the house, ALandra is thrilled with the trust but
manages to do it wrong and ends up binding the Moon, Luna, a Celestial, and
summoning her to earth. No Celestial has visited the earth ever since a coven a
bad witches had murdered a Celestial eons ago. Luna’s powers are bound and she
cannot go back till a certain date. But being on earth is dangerous to her very
existence and she is hunted.
The book has a vibe of the serial Charmed in its environment, story and magic. Charmed was thoroughly entertaining and so is this book. Alandra is
a character who is combatting a lifetime of emotional and verbal abuse from her
parents. She is still coming into her own. Still flailing as a person, but totally
understandable. Some of her actions (like not telling Jess about her creepy
boyfriend) are not kosher and make it a little more difficult to like her. Luna
is magical from the word go. She is utterly captivating and keeps you hooked to
the story.
All in all, this is a nice bit of paranormal fluff of
entertainment.
⭐⭐⭐★
