Book Review: Wraithsong

Wraithsong - Desirable Creatures Series, Book I
by E.J. Squires

This is certainly a change from most YA/Fantasy/Mythology romances I have read recently. I actually bit my nails in anticipation while turning the pages.

Although the story started a bit slow, Sonia being the subject of bullying at school (while controlling her temper) and having a no-kissing rule to follow, the action becomes tensed and intense when she meets Anthony, her mysterious weeding partner. Yup, it's weeding, as in tending the school garden by removing grasses or weeds around the plants. This is Sonia's punishment after she spits on her bully's face. Oh what a feisty one, she really is.

But things have gotten different when she discovers about her hidden gift and the truth about herself.

I highly recommend Wraithsong to all YA readers who love some Norse myths injected to the story. I assure you all, you won't be able to put it down.

Book blurb:

Seventeen-year-old Sonia is in her senior year when she realizes that she is even more different from her friends than she thought. One day there’s an incident with her and another student, proving she has the same ability to control people as her mom. Though she has had a few similar experiences before, this incident verifies exactly how different she is.
Things really begin to change when Sonia meets a senior named Anthony. Soon she finds herself consumed by him—which is shocking—because she’s just not one to fall in love. Anthony is handsome and mysterious, but that’s not what drives Sonia crazy. While other guys usually fight for her attention, Anthony doesn’t even give her the time of day. And even stranger yet, her ability to control people doesn’t work on him. Little does Sonia know that he keeps a deep secret too, and that that very secret holds the answer to who she really is.
With only a few weeks left of school, horrible things happen: Three of Sonia’s cousins, living in another state, are killed, and Sonia’s mom vanishes without a trace.
Anthony tells Sonia that her mom has been taken to an invisible island called Wraithsong, and that his mother is the abductor. To save her mom’s life, Sonia is forced to accept Anthony’s help and travels with him to find the island, but when Anthony’s mother discovers they are working against her, she sends someone to kill Anthony and capture Sonia.