Emily’s Heart
By Natalie Wright
Publisher:
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published:
Amazon Synopsis:
Seventeen-year-old
Emily Adams unintentionally unleashed a shadow god's dark energy power into the
world and started an Apocalypse. But Emily is also the only one that can end
the dark god's reign. Though the powerful faerie magic of the golden torc is
still coiled around her arm, self-doubt threatens to undo her. Emily wants
nothing more than to feel the soft kiss of her one true love, but he won't even
speak to her. Her first crush is still quite dead and her best friend remains a
prisoner in the dark god's house of
nightmares. A growing legion of black-eyed shadow people, devoid of conscience, roam the streets. Emily needs help now more than ever, but redemption seems far off indeed as she faces the expanding darkness alone.
nightmares. A growing legion of black-eyed shadow people, devoid of conscience, roam the streets. Emily needs help now more than ever, but redemption seems far off indeed as she faces the expanding darkness alone.
Emily will
need an army of her own if she is to save the world from being taken over by
pure evil. But will a small band of Lucent geeks and freaks be enough to send
the dark god packing?
Amidst
chaos and ruin, will love blossom in Emily's Heart?
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My Thoughts:
This is the third
and concluding book in the Akasha Chronicles series. Another year has passed
and Emily is now seventeen. She has returned from the Umbra Perdita and the
Apocalypse has been unleashed. People are turning from the Light and being
consumed by the Dark and losing their souls. Evil abounds. Everyone is living
in fear and all of Emily’s friends have deserted her.
And then one day,
Greta shows up on her doorstep asking for her help to fight Ciardha. Emily and
Greta work together gathering a small band of people who are still Lucent and
they begin training to protect themselves and fight the darkness overtaking the
world.
Jake eventually
joins the Lucent Tribe and despite the fact that Jake is still angry with
Emily, he is still in love with her and she finds that she is drawn to him.
There is a lot of
physical action and fighting in Emily’s
Heart. It is a fast paced novel with a definite theme of good vs. evil.
There is some blood and gore in this book as it is aimed at youth in their
later teen years to young adults. The previous two books were aimed at younger
audiences. The language and sexual content was also more adult than in the two
earlier books as well.
I liked that what
sustained Jake through the torture he endured while in captivity was his
positive thoughts and his love for Emily. I believe that our attitude and what
we think can make a big difference in how we endure any difficult situation.
There is a lot of
Celtic and Eastern religious influence in this series. It deals with the idea
that people are part of the “web of all things”. In one part of the novel,
Emily and Jake became one with the Goddess to fight Ciardha and defeat him by
embracing him with love. Emily learns that it is not wise to destroy Ciardha
(the dark one) as both Ciardha and the Goddess (of Light) are two sides of the
same coin.
Emily’s descriptions
of the scenes are well-written and detailed enough to allow the reader to
visualize the scenes easily. The world she paints is a very bleak place, but
there is hope if we can find it within ourselves to love each other – a truth
for us all to learn from.
Ms. Wright’s
characters are realistic. Through each of the three books in the series they
have matured, just as teenagers do and by the end of this third book they have
reached adulthood and begin to drift apart in life, heading their separate
ways, maybe to cross paths again, and maybe not. Their friendships have
developed, broken, mended and changed just as friendships do in real life. Very
well done!
I gave this book 3
stars out of 5.
About the Author:
Natalie
is the author of The Akasha Chronicles, a young adult fantasy trilogy. When not
writing, blogging, Facebooking, Tweeting, Wattpadding or eating chocolate,
Natalie nurtures her young daughter, feeds her dog too many treats, and can't
resist watching Ancient Aliens, no matter how absurd the show becomes.
Natalie spent her formative years on a farm in Ohio living in
a creaky old farmhouse, gathering natural clay and crawdads from the creek, and
using the moss growing on the rocks in the woods as a carpet for her Barbie
dolls. It was a fertile environment for an active imagination and an inquisitive
mind.
Natalie
enjoys travel, good wine, and excellent food shared with family and friends. She is, however, a city girl at heart and vows never
to live anyplace for long where she can’t get take-out food delivered to her
door. Natalie finds inspiration in travels and the desert environment of her
home in Tucson, Arizona where she lives with her husband, young daughter and
her dog Molly.
"Books are my friends, ideas my passion."
"Books are my friends, ideas my passion."
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