Harley Austin

Awakened was a fast-moving, intriguing novel.

This book follows Lisa, a swim suit model, when she gets lost in the woods. She meets a hot guy in witness protection, and her life then changes forever.

This novel is well written, and I love the character development, plot and romance involved in it - but I had one major problem. The novel starts out as an everyday sort of romance and thriller, and then suddenly halfway through the novel switches into a supernatural/fantasy and kind of ditches the tone it was written for the first half. I would have preferred for the supernatural and fantasy tones to be introduced earlier, or for the synopsis to suggest it was fantasy because I was not prepared. I can almost say it ruined the whole story just randomly throwing out the fantasy in there. The book was doing fine without the fantasy until it changed.

Overall, I liked the book, but I'm not totally impressed with it. Well written, great ideas, but the change made me really despise the fact that I kept reading it. It was like I was sold a great romance/thriller, but then got half a fantasy with it.

I'll give it four out of five stars because of the great writing, but the plot change almost gives it a 1 out of five.

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