Book
Review
Basic Details:
Book Title: Rising Tide:
Dark Innocence
Subtitle: The Maura DeLuca
Trilogy #1
Author:
Claudette Melanson
Genre: Dark Fantasy
Part of a series? Yes
Order in series: 1
Best read after earlier
books in series? No
Available: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35648521-rising-tide
Overall
score:
I
scored this book 5/5
⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️⭐️
Short
Summary of the book:
Maura is a teenager who has no friends at
school. Just when it appears some of her classmates want her to join their
friendship group, her mother decides to move to Canada. Suddenly she becomes a
‘normal’ teenager and rebels against the rules set by her single mother. With
her dad not in her life, she has looked after her depressed mother for a long
time. The sudden friendship is not what it appears but Ron has admired Maura
from a distance for years and rescues her. Will their friendship survive? And
what do all the changes in her appetite mean? Why does she feel ill in the sun?
What
I liked about the book:
I enjoyed the developing friendship and love
between Maura and Ron, even if it came just for her move.
What
I didn’t like about the book:
Bullies are my worst pet hate. This book had
its fair share.
My
favourite bits in the book:
Friendship developing amongst these young
people. It was an honest friendship which could bridge a distance. Whether it
would last is still an open question.
My
least favourite bits in the book:
The scene in the woods. How could they do that
to her?
Any
further books in the series? Any more planned by this author?
I understand this is the first book in the
series and I had to restrain myself from immediately buying the next in the
series. That will need to wait until I have made a good dent in the large
collection of books on my Kindle.
What
books could this be compared to and why?
This was quite a different look at the
paranormal world. There are no books I can think of I’ve read like this. Only
one book slightly reminds me of this one but I can’t remember its title at the
moment.
Recommendation:
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Children
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No
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Young
Adult
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Yes
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Adult
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Yes
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If
you like this book may be the book for
you.
I
look forward to reading more books by this author.
Book
Description by Author:
2015 Readers' Favorite Gold Medal winner for YA Mystery
2015 RONE Award Finalist for YA Paranormal
2015 New Apple Top Medalist for Young Adult Ebook
CHOSEN AS ONE OF 400 FOR THE SECOND ROUND OF THE AMAZON
BREAKTHROUGH NOVEL AWARD FOR 2014!!!
ARE YOU A FAN OF VAMPIRE LITERATURE?
Rising Tide will sink its fangs into you, keeping you awake
into the wee hours of the night
Could Maura's life get any worse? ...turns out it most
certainly can.
Isolated and sheltered by her lonely mother, Maura's never
been able to make friends. She seems to drive her classmates away—except for
the odd times they pay enough attention to torture her—but she doesn’t
understand why. Maura considers herself to be a freak of nature, with her
unusually pale skin and an aversion to the sun that renders her violently
nauseous. Her belief is only worsened by the fact that almost everyone around
her keeps their distance.
Even her own father deserted her before she was born,
leaving Maura alone with her emotionally distant mother, Caelyn. Even though
Maura is desperate for answers about her unknown parent, Caelyn remains
heartbroken and her daughter can’t bring herself to reopen her mother’s wounds.
Or is there a more sinister reason Caelyn refuses to utter a word about her long-lost
love?
When a cruel prank nearly claims Maura’s life, one of her
classmates, Ron, rushes to her rescue. Darkly handsome & mysteriously
accepting, Ron doesn’t seem to want to stay away, but Maura is reluctant to get
too close, since her mother has announced she’s moving the two of them to
Vancouver…nearly 3,000 miles away from their hometown of Indiana, Pennsylvania.
If life wasn’t already challenging enough, Maura begins to
experience bizarre, physical changes her mother seems hell bent on ignoring,
compelling Maura to fear for her own life. Vicious nightmares, blood cravings,
failing health and the heart-shattering loss of Ron—as well as the discovery of
a tangled web of her own mother's lies—become obstacles in Maura's desperate
quest for the unfathomable truth she was never prepared to uncover.
About
the Author:
Claudette Melanson writes dark fantasy in Kitchener, Ontario
with seven bun babies: Tegan, Pepper, Butters, Beckett, Sansa, Daenerys, &
Caramel. She graduated from Indiana University of Pennsylvania with a BA in
English, BS in English Education and an MA in Literature. Harboring a deep
admiration of vampires since the age of five left her with the desire to
eventually become one, and now fuels the creation of her favorite paranormal
characters. She hopes to one day work full time as an author, since there are
many, many stories playing out inside her head.
In her very scant spare time, she enjoys watching Japanese
Anime and reading vampire stories...along with other genres of great fiction,
as well as riding every roller coaster she encounters in both her hometown and
away at signings. An advocate for good health and ketogenic eating, her
favorite foods are bulletproof coffee, cashew-flour crust pizza and treats made
with xylitol and almond, coconut or cashew flours.
Future dreams include a cabin boasting a roaring fire,
isolated inside a snow-filled wood in the Yukon—the perfect writing spot—and
the completion of dozens of future novels and stories. A Rabbit Rescue fanatic
and loving bunmom, she also hopes to help rescues all over the world save many
innocent lives.
In her spare time--what's that???--she loves to watch anime,
game the XBox 360--especially Silent Hill Games, read great works of fiction
& play with the bunnies. Coffee Lover, occasional blogger, Keto eater &
movie watcher. Her first novel, Rising Tide, was the winner of the Gold Medal
for YA Mystery in the 2015 Readers' Favorite Competition. Her second, Undertow,
took Honorable Mention, for YA Horror the same year for Readers' Favorite.
Rising Tide was also the medalist winner for New Apple's Summer Ebook
competition.
