Author: Annabel Cadiz
Series: Sons of Old Trilogy (Book 1)
Genre: Contemporary, Fantasy, Paranormal, Adventure, Mystery Romance Teen and Young Adult
Length: 263 pages
Publisher: Self Published
Date of Publication: 31st of January 2013
Synopsis
Have you ever wondered what could be hiding in the shadows?
Zahara’s hunting skills are usually kept dormant since her parents would prefer she live life as a normal human girl without knowledge of the supernatural world. She plans on doing just that—except when she finds a couple being attacked by fairies, she has no choice but to step in. Before she can return to pretending to be blissfully ignorant, Zahara encounters a problem she isn’t the least equip to handle: Bryan Hamilton, the good looking new co-worker she has to help train. In a heartbeat, her best friend, Becca King, has set her up on a double date with herself and her new crush, Rekesh Saint-Louis, who happens to be the most powerful leader of the biggest Imago Coven in South Florida –supernatural creatures with the ability to control water . . . and suck out human souls.
Zahara has no time to focus on how she’s going to explain her double date with her best friend and the enemy they have a tentative truce with to her parents because soon one of the members of Mia and Catalina’s coven is found murdered with a strange tattoo of a snake with wings carved into his arm.
Zahara is then thrown into a whirlwind battle with an angel determined to have revenge against God, an Imago coven she doesn’t think they should trust, and slew of dream-eating fairies and powerful Nephilims, hybrid children of angels and humans, more than happy to rip her to shreds.
Normal just got a deadlier definition.
Review
Before I dive into my review of this book and how I have enjoyed it, I should probably warn you that I am somewhat biased :p The lovely author Annabel Cadiz is a very good friend of mine, someone I admire and trust, and someone whose literary skills I deem to be very very good. This said I have done my utmost to be objective and non-biased when reviewing Lucifer, however it is a little hard because I'm just so happy for her!!!
Anyway here we go :)
After having read the synopsis I felt intrigued, but it wasn't until I read the introduction that my attention was well and truly sparked.
Having been snagged by the it I quickly delved into Lucifer.
Lucifer presented itself as a more complex read than I had initially predicted, and by that I mean that it wasn't quite your average paranormal fantasy contemporary Young Adult novel.
As the synopsis suggests Lucifer isn't quite a straight forward tale, but with deception, trust, betrayal, loyalty and friends and foes lurking in every twist of the plot Annabel Cadiz has done a deceptively good job at hiding them until she was ready to hit me with unforeseen events.
Each of Annabel's characters had a life and a mind (and a strong one at that) of its own, and it was a pleasure to recognise a distinctive difference in language and style that remained faithful to each of them consistently throughout the book. The attention to detail to make each character's voice strong and unique was well thought through. I have to say I grew particularly fond of Zahara's best friend's (Becca) extraordinarily eccentric wardrobe and personality. She had me laughing more than one with her strong will and personality.
Annabel's pacing of Lucifer was anything but slow. At a speedily swift rate she swept me through the novel, which meant it was over before I knew it. Occasionally I felt that perhaps the pace was almost too fast but then again this happened mostly during action scenes emulating the reality of how fast things happen when truly fighting.
Lucifer not only presented with a good storyline and interesting twists, but entwined with these were strong emotional themes of family, friendship, loyalty and belief. Watching these being instilled in the characters, grown, crushed and then rebuilt when all is thought to be lost was interesting and gave me further insight into the potential of this trilogy.
Lucifer Sons of Old is a novel that had in store for me far more than I had bargained for and delivered so many unexpected blows that I am most certainly fairly anxious to read the sequel in Michael; to which Annabel has given us a small by enticing insight into in an interview held earlier this month.
Anyway here we go :)
After having read the synopsis I felt intrigued, but it wasn't until I read the introduction that my attention was well and truly sparked.
Having been snagged by the it I quickly delved into Lucifer.
Lucifer presented itself as a more complex read than I had initially predicted, and by that I mean that it wasn't quite your average paranormal fantasy contemporary Young Adult novel.
As the synopsis suggests Lucifer isn't quite a straight forward tale, but with deception, trust, betrayal, loyalty and friends and foes lurking in every twist of the plot Annabel Cadiz has done a deceptively good job at hiding them until she was ready to hit me with unforeseen events.
Each of Annabel's characters had a life and a mind (and a strong one at that) of its own, and it was a pleasure to recognise a distinctive difference in language and style that remained faithful to each of them consistently throughout the book. The attention to detail to make each character's voice strong and unique was well thought through. I have to say I grew particularly fond of Zahara's best friend's (Becca) extraordinarily eccentric wardrobe and personality. She had me laughing more than one with her strong will and personality.
Annabel's pacing of Lucifer was anything but slow. At a speedily swift rate she swept me through the novel, which meant it was over before I knew it. Occasionally I felt that perhaps the pace was almost too fast but then again this happened mostly during action scenes emulating the reality of how fast things happen when truly fighting.
Lucifer not only presented with a good storyline and interesting twists, but entwined with these were strong emotional themes of family, friendship, loyalty and belief. Watching these being instilled in the characters, grown, crushed and then rebuilt when all is thought to be lost was interesting and gave me further insight into the potential of this trilogy.
Lucifer Sons of Old is a novel that had in store for me far more than I had bargained for and delivered so many unexpected blows that I am most certainly fairly anxious to read the sequel in Michael; to which Annabel has given us a small by enticing insight into in an interview held earlier this month.
A big thank you to the lovely Annabel Cadiz for providing me with a copy of her hard work to read and review
If you liked this: and would like some more paranormal adventure with a dash of romance to it and adventure then perhaps try some of the following: Inescapable by Amy Bartol, Greta and the Goblin King by Chloe Jacobs, The Goddess Test by Aimee Carter, The Assassin's Curse by Cassandra Rose Clarke, The Treachery of Beautiful Things by Ruth F. Long and Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare.