SYNOPSIS:
Did you just see a flash of lightning across the sky on a clear sunny day? It’s not from Mother Nature. It is most likely from Mason Grand, swoon-worthy demigod, one of Zeus’s descendants.
Skylar Rome is supposed to be having the best summer ever before she heads off to college. Little did she know, her whole life was about to change while visiting her cousin. Nearly drowning at the beach due to unknown forces, one of the Grand brothers she’d just met, Mason, saves her life. Cool, collected, mysterious, and dangerously good-looking, Skylar is drawn to him from the start. Though she knows he is the type of guy good girls stayed away from, it seems he is always saving her life, and the attraction was inevitable.
Upon meeting the brothers, strange things begin to happen. When she accidentally kills one of the brothers, it throws her life into turmoil, as they search to find the answers. Implausibly, she gets caught up in a world of the descendants of ancient gods, all who have super powers. Not only is her discovery difficult to accept, evil beings are after her. Running out of time and running for her life, she must unravel a mystery. What do they want from her? Forced into a battle set into motion long before she was born, will she find the answers, or will she die trying?
My thoughts after reading...
First and foremost, I am deeply humbled and stoked that author Mary Ting had so generously furnished me an ARC of this book. I'm indeed very lucky to have the opportunity to read & review such a wonderful and compelling love story...
So basically Skylar Rome have some daddy-issues. Her father left her when she was young, and of course it broke her emotionally... Who wouldn't be, right? She was her daddy's 'lil girl... And I can relate since I am one too... Somehow her dad just left her without so much as an explanation; even from her Mom... And it was really unfair and selfish to leave a child wondering--wondering if she was the reason why he left...wondering if her dad had loved her at all... I think her Mom knows something but just cant explain, given Skylar's recent discovery of her genetic make-up.
And Mason... Dayumm! That dude can really be such a douche! Handsome, strong-willed with God-like physique, but still a douche... with erratic mood swings that I can't keep-up! And I'm a girl! Jeez...
Some times I just wanna slap him silly for being so hot&cold towards Sky. He has this wall built around him that makes Fort-Knox look like a friggin play pen! I mean a girl can only take so much mindfuck ya know?... As if knowing & hanging out with demi-gods isn't overwhelming enough, what more falling for one who's kind of emotionally constipated?!😒 But despite those things, I still love Mason...he'll give his own life for Sky... Protect her... Be her knight in shining armor even when he's not really supposed to...
Like I said before, I'm not really much of a fan of Fantasy Romance as the fantasizing in Fantasy-Romance already becomes redundant...but when it comes to Mary Ting's books, I just couldn't help but gush over it like an effin' school girl daydreaming of Prince Phillip from Sleeping Beauty, ready to slay the damn dragon... (dreamy sigh)...anyway...
Although I love my Max, from Something Great... and I love Michael and Austin from The Crossroads Saga... I also came to love Mason Grand, especially in the chapters nearing the end... And I'll be waiting to see how it all works-out between him and Sky in the coming books... I'll be counting the days...
I highly recommend reading this!🙏
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Bio: Mary Ting resides in Southern California with her husband and two children. She enjoys oil painting and making jewelry. Writing her first novel, Crossroads Saga, happened by chance. It was a way to grieve the death of her beloved grandmother, and inspired by a dream she once had as a young girl. When she started reading new adult novels, she fell in love with the genre. It was the reason she had to write one-Something Great. Why the pen name, M Clarke? She tours with Magic Johnson Foundation to promote literacy and her children's chapter book-No Bullies Allowed