 | Title: Torn
 Sexual Content: Kissing Rating:
Good - A fun read with minor flaws. Maybe read an excerpt before buying. |
Description
Everyone has secrets.
Even best friends.
Swirling black descends like ravens, large enough to block the glow of the streetlights. A dull roar starts like a train on the 'L', a far-away rumbling that grows louder as it pulls closer, until it's directly overhead and you feel it in your chest, except this doesn't pass you by. Verity, white-faced and eyes blazing, shouts through the din, "Run, Mo!"
Mo Fitzgerald knows about secrets. But when she witnesses her best friend's murder, she discovers Verity was hiding things she never could have guessed. To find the answers she needs and the vengeance she craves, Mo—quiet, ordinary, unmagical Mo—will have to enter a world of raw magic and shifting alliances. And she'll have to choose between two very different, equally dangerous guys—protective, duty-bound Colin and brash, mysterious Luc. One wants to save her, one wants to claim her. Which would you choose?
Review
Murder, magic, and the Mob. That’s TORN in a nutshell. Well if you add in one of the better love triangles I’ve read this year with two very different, but equally appealing guys, and a hidden magical world that lies at the brink of destruction.
I have no comment on the cover, but the title of TORN is perfect. Maura “Mo” Fitzgerald is torn. Torn between her incarcerated father and the uncle who stepped in to take care of her and her mother. Torn between the life she led in the shadow of her vibrant and beautiful best friend and the future she must embrace in the wake of her friends murder. Torn between a new world of magic and the mundane world she’s always known. Torn between the human guy assigned to protect her and the magical guy who needs her to save his people.
As much as I liked the romances and the choices Mo had to make, I did have a couple issues. The first half of TORN reads like a contemporary YA with only the barest hint of anything paranormal going on. I wish the author had sped up the narrative and kicked in the paranormal elements much earlier as the excitement, danger, and romance really took off once they came into play. I also never got over the protagonist’s name. Her name is Maura but everyone calls her Mo (or even Mouse). It never stopped sounding weird every time I read it.
Overall, despite the slow start and odd name, the last half of TORN rocked. The love triangle works exceptionally well and, like Mo, I felt torn between Collin and Luc too. There is so much more to learn about the magical world that hides along side our own and Mo’s role in saving it. I’m already looking forward to how it all plays out in TANGLED, the second book in the Torn Trilogy, which will be published in February of 2012.
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Great Review! This is so going on my wishlist, sounds really really good! :)
ReplyDeleteI'm about 3/4 of the way through and I'm really enjoying this book. The writing is strong and able to convey drama without a lot of filler words I find in some YA. I liked the mix of contemporary and paranormal, and a family that isn't painted as one-note. I like that she isn't one of the teens in many YA books left to wander dark streets on her own; well, she DOES, but there are major consequences, and more importantly, people notice when she's gone.
ReplyDeleteThis book surprised me; I think a combo of the writing style and the mix of elements (not just paranormal, not just contemporary) is what sold me.