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Haven by Mary Lindsey
5.0

Now I’m debating whether I’ll donate this to my library, or keep it to get the author to autograph at Apollycon next March.

This was my first book by this author, and I am pretty sure I am going to now be going back to get my hands on all her past titles, as I was very impressed with this one. I was barely over 20 pages in when it sucked me in so that I was hard-pressed to put it down when I had to go back to work at the end of my lunch break. There was a part that was reminiscent of one of my favorite movies from the 80s, The Lost Boys, which only sold me on the story even more. I loved that the characters were not just perfect people. They had their definite flaws, and there were definitely reasons that you could see them not getting their happy ending. In fact, there is a point in the book, where all the signs, including a prediction from a psychic character in the book, show you that there will be death where things are ramping up to the final conflict.

In the end, there are the ones you thought could not be forgiven, would be the ones you hated and wished would stay out of the way, that will earn redemption. There are those that you don't see coming, both on the side to help our heroes, as well as those who will be in the end to try to keep things from going the way you want.

You can read my full review at Lisa Loves Literature.