The three male characters aren’t nearly as compelling. Just enough of her history is given to us to help us understand her while yearning to find out more. Although she seems too passive at first, readers quickly realize the reasoning for this. The author created a winning character with Callan. This is one of the reasons I give this book a 3.8 out of five stars on my rating scale. My Reviewĭoes my summary end abruptly? So does the book.

This world is on the edge of war (as the title of the series suggests), and Callan appears to be caught between two powerful races who despise and distrust one another. Soon she discovers that her family might not be as dead as she always believed. She is rescued by a boy from school, who apparently is a knight in the other realm. In what should have been a pleasure trip, Callan falls into the hands of kidnappers from an alternate world. Unfortunately, several things happen the first day of school to prevent that.

Callan likes to blend in, hide in plain sight, in order to cope with new situations. They head off to an elite boarding school that is situated near a supposedly haunted castle. Apparently, he had a sister who died (but there are mere hints about how and when) and his parents should have sought his permission before trying to replace her with this mousy girl. She lands into a new foster home, where her wealthy “brother” is less than pleased to have a new sister. (Don’t get too intrigued by this entity because we learn NOTHING about its origin or real purpose in this book.) She also is plagued by strange dreams of knights and murder. Story SummaryĬallan, orphaned at the age of eleven, is a foster child with a strange entity living within her. Why? Because today, the second book in the series, The Heir’s Choice, releases on Kindle today. I read this book between July 6th and 9th but waited to post the review on my blog until today. I admire the indie authors who willingly put themselves out there with minimal support because they believe in the story they have to tell. Gerrick, I agreed to review the first book in her series The War of Six Crowns in exchange for a free eBook copy.įor those of you new to book publishing in the Amazon paradigm, the goal is to build chatter about your existing titles so that when a new title is released, people are excited to snap it up. In the interest of promoting independently published authors, I often agree to review new releases.

The Vanished Knight by M. Gerrick