The Emerald Talisman
by:
Brenda Pandos (author)
Grade 9 Up - To be normal, sixteen-year-old Julia Parker would shed her empathic gift in a second. Life has been difficult since her mother's mysterious disappearance ten years earlier - an event she witnessed, but can't remember. Julia's situation becomes more complicated after a near death...
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Grade 9 Up - To be normal, sixteen-year-old Julia Parker would shed her empathic gift in a second. Life has been difficult since her mother's mysterious disappearance ten years earlier - an event she witnessed, but can't remember. Julia's situation becomes more complicated after a near death experience from a blood thirsty stalker. As high school students go missing it is clear there is a connection to her own experience--past and present. Someone has to stop the madness and a chance encounter with a creepy psychic foretells that only Julia is the key to stopping the madness, but it may require the life of the one she loves.Readers who enjoyed Twilight, Vampire Diaries, Blue Bloods and The Morganville Vampires will enjoy The Emerald Talisman.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
2940011838897 (0011838892)
Publish date: March 23rd 2010
Publisher: Obsidian Mountain Publishing
Pages no: 280
Edition language: English
Series: Talisman (#1)
This was one of the first freebies I picked up for my Kindle a couple of years ago. I have so many freebies I got and have never got round to reading them, so I now have a policy if I can make it past the first 10-15% its a keeper. Review will contain some ranty spoilers. The first 10-15% wasn't a...
Awful. Twilight rip off. Full review to come.
I got this as a Kindle freebie. The reviews on Amazon and here were decent. I could hardly get through it. The writing was stiff at best. The plot was slow and seemed under devolved in certain areas. The only character I actually liked was Phil's.
It was a fast easy read, but I agree with some of the other reviewers that the main character was a bit whiney and needy.It made no sense that she would fall in love with this guy after like 5 min. I stuck with it though and I think the next books will be better since they are already in love and we...
I really couldn’t decide what to rate this 2 1/2 stars I guess. I kept going back and forth between it’s ok and I kind of like it. It reminded me a bit of Twilight (think gorgeous guy saves helpless girl multiple times despite her stupidity, stalks her and drives really fast), the TV series Moonligh...
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