I really enjoyed reading this book. I am going to read the rest of the series. The idea of playing with Fate has always intrigued me. Nara Collins is a 16 year old girl that dreams about her whole day the night before it happens. She usually does not act on her dreams too much. She might avoid certain people or situation that would hurt her. The one time she acts without even thinking about it cause the balance of everything to be off. She called in a threat of a bomb at her school. The next day she meets a guy, Ethan Harris. After touching Ethan, Nara does not dream the future anymore. Ethan somehow steals her dreams. I wonder if I would change the future if I knew what was going to happen. If I did change the future would I be willing pay the price for changing it? As a mother I would do anything for my children. So yes, I would change the future and fight fate for them. The question is would I do it for people I did not know. I don’t know. This book was a wonderful story that kept me reading until the end even if I read until early this morning.

So, pretty interesting and it ended on a cliffhanger. Grrrr. I hate those.

Sometimes tough to reconcile Nara's decisions with those of a sixteen year old but at other times she was such a teen I wanted to scream.

Well written, very interesting premise.

While I enjoyed I won't be going back for more simply because I don't have the patience for teenagers. Give me this scenario with people in their 30's and I'd be all over it. That's personal preference.

Review of Brightest Kind of Darkness

Rating: 5 stars

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The story is told through the eyes of Nara and she has such a cool gift. Every night she dreams the events of the following day, knowing exactly what will happen this helps her in school and her social life, when to avoid sticky situations and what answers she needs for exams but she gets sick of predicting everything.

Her dream shows her a bombing that will happen at her school so when she wakes up she reports it and in the process stops it from happening, she normally doesn’t interfere but this time she does and in doing so starts a chain reaction of accidents happening in her local school.

After the bombing situation Nara meets Ethan a loner who she falls very quickly for, but once she starts hanging out with him her dreams seem to stop. At first she’s okay with that but then her world starts falling apart around her as she feels blind. (Welcome to our world).

As the story picks up we learn about whom Ethan really is and what happened to Nara’s gifts, and soon she finds herself at war with fate itself. The story leaves you not sure who to trust and Ethan was on the top of my list of – bad guy acting good. But I was wrong and the love story between Ethan and Nara is so beautiful. The darkness in the book gets stronger as the story progress and I felt like I was looking over my shoulder when weird stuff started to happen to Nara. Invisible hands pushing her, fog on a mirror, a coldness growing around her, or words being whispered in her ear. The end was a very satisfying conclusion to the story.

I would highly recommend this book to fantasy and paranormal readers.

Just as a head's up to anyone who would be interested, Ethan a prequel novella in the Brightest Kind of Darkness series is FREE for a limited time on Amazon and Kobo.

 

This series is one of my favorite reads, beginning with Brightest Kind of Darkness which not only was one of my top five books last year but is also currently FREE at most major retailers.

 

 

 

When I saw this as a Kindle freebie and read the description I knew I had to get it. The plot sounded absolutely amazing and that something I would really enjoy. I'm really happy to say that this one did not let me down at all. The fact that the main character dreams her entire day the night before is just really cool and not something I have seen done in YA before.

 

The thin that really stuck out about Nara is that she really tried not to interfere with her powers except when confronted with the knowledge of a bombing at her school. The way she stood up and took action really set the tone for the way the book was going to go. It was also really interesting that Nara didn't know much about her powers at all even though she had been living with them for a long time.

 

The thing that I loved most about the book was that it kept me guessing. Whenever I thought I had figured everything out something else developed and I was back at the beginning. I never once had everything all figured out and I love books that take me on a thrill ride like that.

 

The characters definitely made the book for me. The fact that Nara was a regular girl who wasn't exactly popular really helped me to connect with her. The only difference is she had the power to see the events of the following day the night before. She's a really likeable character who really stands up when she knows someone is going to be injured. When we really got introduced to Ethan I absolutely loved him. For a while I thought something dark was going on with him, with Nara losing her powers and everything, but he really turned out to be a sweetheart. He was caring and sweet and oh so adorable.

 

If you're looking for a book that will keep you guessing this one is definitely for you. Don't let the fact that it's free stop you from giving it a shot. It is really worth it and the storyline and the characters will have you eagerly moving on to book two.