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Chapel Ryan isn't crazy. At least,
that's what she's been trying to convince herself of for most of her life. But
after being hallucination-free for three years, Chapel finds herself facedown
on her English classroom’s gritty linoleum floor. When she looks up, everyone
around her is suspended in animation. Mouths hang open mid-yawn, feet hover
mid-cross, Ms. Freeman’s arm flexes mid-sentence diagram. It's another
hallucination. Or, is it?
Chapel prepares to tear
herself back to reality when something happens. Something that has never
happened before in any of her hallucinations--someone moves. And not just any
someone—it’s the new guy with a scar over his lip and a reputation as black as
his perfectly styled hair. And all of the sudden Chapel's white-knuckle grip on
her life has slipped, and with it, her assurance that what she's experiencing
isn't real.
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Genre: New Adult
Fantasy
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One Sentence
Description: After she learns the true nature of her hallucinations, high
school senior Chapel Ryan must decide who she can trust in a world where the
rules of genetics do not apply
Holly was born and raised
in a small town in North Georgia. The third of four children, Holly grew up
telling stories to get herself out of—and her siblings into—trouble. When she
was eight years old, she penned her first publication: a newspaper called Sunny
Dayz News. While she didn’t sell any actual copies, her sympathetic grandmother
did peruse through the edition at least once.
When Holly isn’t dreaming
up new plotlines for her next book, she enjoys breakfasting at Picnic Café in
Dahlonega, Georgia with her (handsome) husband and their two (adorable)
daughters.
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RATED 5 STARS
She always thought something was terribly wrong with
her….maybe she was even crazy.
Chapel Ryan can stop time and no one ever knows until she
sees Isaiah Halstead move during one of her episodes.
Isaiah keeps showing up in her life from then on.
He already lives next door but now he shows
up to walk her home from work. Zay, as he wants to be called, keeps trying to
convince her to go out with him but Chap has been burned before by her longtime
friend and recent boyfriend, Logan, so she refuses anything but friendship.
Her home life is a mess too.
Her policeman father died when she was little and her mom has remarried
and had twins with a man Chapel just cannot stand. The only one who seems to keep her connected
to her dad is the family friend, Hunter Carter who is also a coach at Chap’s
school.
In spite of herself, Chapel finds herself falling for
Zay. She keeps having more episodes
until it if finally revealed that she has a special gift and she is being
recruited by two factions of people who have unusual talents such as hers.
With decisions to be made about college, a suspicious step
father, a repentant boyfriend, a mother who leaves notes at Chap’s father’s
grave, the poor girl is confused and doesn’t know what to do.
A big surprise at the end of the book may change Chapel’s
life forever.
Chapel was an interesting girl. Besides having an exceptional talent, she has
all the normal problems of a teenage girl.
She was cheated on, has an enemy who doesn’t hide it and unusual things
keep happening to her at a higher and higher rate. I loved that she detested her stepfather but
adored the twins he had with her mother.
There were a lot of surprises with other characters that I
won’t reveal but trust me, they are unexpected.
I really enjoyed this book and I would recommend it to
anyone even though it is a Young Adult book I found the characters engaging and
the story intriguing. Can’t wait to hear
more from this new author.
