Omens
Kelley
Armstrong
Random
House August 2013
Part
of the Cainsville Series
Genre:
Mystery, Thriller, Fiction, Adventure
Olivia Taylor Jones is a beautiful young socialite. She has everything a girl could ever want. She volunteers and is engaged to a young man with political ambitions. After a dinner out with her fiancĂ© James Morgan she heads home to her mother who asked her to come home right away. When she arrives she finds the family lawyer there with her mother. Olivia learns that she was adopted. This should be enough to shake the girl to the core, but worse than that, he explains that her real parents are the infamous serial killers Todd and Pamela Larsen. She is really Eden Larsen, and this information has been leaked to the media. Soon enough they are banging down the door, her mother flees to Europe and she is on her own. Olivia thinks the only thing she can do is run away. Eventually she finds herself in Cainsville Illinois, working as a waitress. Where she meets Gabriel Walsh, Pamela Larsen’s appeal lawyer. Olivia and Gabriel begin to investigate the Larsen’s crimes, Olivia is trying to find out if her birth parents really are as evil as everyone says they are.
Woah guys, woah! I was sucked into this book so quickly. I couldn’t put it down! It turned a little bit windy on our vacation and it was too cold for me outside. So, I was bundled up inside with my tea reading this book. Everyone was wondering “where is Elyse?” and I was like “IN CAINSVILLE!!!!!!” It was a real page turner, I read late into the night and fell asleep holding it in my hands with the lights on!
The author Kelley Armstrong has written LOTS of series, and I have never read one before. In the Author’s note she had a little blurb about how she has left clues throughout the book and she hopes that the readers are patient enough to wait until the end for it all to be put together. But if they weren’t they could look up the clues and their meaning online. I was shocked. I didn’t know what to do, I didn’t know what it meant. I was stunned. I am NEVER PATIENT. I can NEVER wait. Ask my husband, he will tell you. Here is the Author telling me that she has given it all away. Then what is the point of reading this book I asked myself. I know you are sitting there going “what did you do”???? Obviously I read the book for heaven’s sake. I said to myself “Read it, and then if you have to, look up the clues”. Of course I didn’t look them up because I love books and I love the experience. If you read the series and you looked at the clues you have to tell me what you thought of that. I may look them all up in the end to see if my hunches were right.
The point of view really works for this story. You know there is something so much bigger going on because you see so many different perspectives. But you still have no idea what it is. It’s just enough mystery to get you to keep going. I found that I really wanted to know what the heck was going on. Are these people aliens? Witches? Montsters? Daemons?
Clearly, I loved the mystery here. It was well paced I didn’t find myself pushing the characters to hurry up. What I felt at the end was a little bit frustrated. It felt like nothing was cleared up. There was so many more problems than when we started. I like resolve, and it felt like there wasn’t enough. Gabriel really grew on me, and I think he will continue to do so. He is struggling along with the reader and with Olivia and I liked him for it. He is confidant on the outside but I am not convinced he is so confidant on the inside.
I hope you guys are liking the vacation reads series on the blog. Next week is the last vacation book. It was a very popular Pulitzer winner, written about a painting. Let's see if you can guess before it comes out. See you next week.
My verdict: READ IT!!
Olivia Taylor Jones is a beautiful young socialite. She has everything a girl could ever want. She volunteers and is engaged to a young man with political ambitions. After a dinner out with her fiancĂ© James Morgan she heads home to her mother who asked her to come home right away. When she arrives she finds the family lawyer there with her mother. Olivia learns that she was adopted. This should be enough to shake the girl to the core, but worse than that, he explains that her real parents are the infamous serial killers Todd and Pamela Larsen. She is really Eden Larsen, and this information has been leaked to the media. Soon enough they are banging down the door, her mother flees to Europe and she is on her own. Olivia thinks the only thing she can do is run away. Eventually she finds herself in Cainsville Illinois, working as a waitress. Where she meets Gabriel Walsh, Pamela Larsen’s appeal lawyer. Olivia and Gabriel begin to investigate the Larsen’s crimes, Olivia is trying to find out if her birth parents really are as evil as everyone says they are.
Woah guys, woah! I was sucked into this book so quickly. I couldn’t put it down! It turned a little bit windy on our vacation and it was too cold for me outside. So, I was bundled up inside with my tea reading this book. Everyone was wondering “where is Elyse?” and I was like “IN CAINSVILLE!!!!!!” It was a real page turner, I read late into the night and fell asleep holding it in my hands with the lights on!
The author Kelley Armstrong has written LOTS of series, and I have never read one before. In the Author’s note she had a little blurb about how she has left clues throughout the book and she hopes that the readers are patient enough to wait until the end for it all to be put together. But if they weren’t they could look up the clues and their meaning online. I was shocked. I didn’t know what to do, I didn’t know what it meant. I was stunned. I am NEVER PATIENT. I can NEVER wait. Ask my husband, he will tell you. Here is the Author telling me that she has given it all away. Then what is the point of reading this book I asked myself. I know you are sitting there going “what did you do”???? Obviously I read the book for heaven’s sake. I said to myself “Read it, and then if you have to, look up the clues”. Of course I didn’t look them up because I love books and I love the experience. If you read the series and you looked at the clues you have to tell me what you thought of that. I may look them all up in the end to see if my hunches were right.
The point of view really works for this story. You know there is something so much bigger going on because you see so many different perspectives. But you still have no idea what it is. It’s just enough mystery to get you to keep going. I found that I really wanted to know what the heck was going on. Are these people aliens? Witches? Montsters? Daemons?
Clearly, I loved the mystery here. It was well paced I didn’t find myself pushing the characters to hurry up. What I felt at the end was a little bit frustrated. It felt like nothing was cleared up. There was so many more problems than when we started. I like resolve, and it felt like there wasn’t enough. Gabriel really grew on me, and I think he will continue to do so. He is struggling along with the reader and with Olivia and I liked him for it. He is confidant on the outside but I am not convinced he is so confidant on the inside.
I hope you guys are liking the vacation reads series on the blog. Next week is the last vacation book. It was a very popular Pulitzer winner, written about a painting. Let's see if you can guess before it comes out. See you next week.
My verdict: READ IT!!
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Have you read any of her other series? What did you think of this one? Do you think the Larsen’s are innocent?
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