Daughter of the Fallen by Madeline Wynn
Age Group: Young Adult
Genre: Paranormal
Release Date: November 1, 2014
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Book Description:
Most sixteen-year olds aren't worried about the fate of their immortal souls.
May Krieg should be. Typically, honor student May's biggest problems have revolved around her super-hot arch-rival, Jack. But when a school project takes them ghost-hunting in a local cemetery, she discovers that an ominous force roams in the darkness around her.
And it follows her home.
It claws its way into her life, burning messages into her wall and imprinting them onto her body. Even worse, she can't tell if it's trying to possess her... or protect her.
May's thoughts soon become actions, causing the target of her anger severe physical pain and giving her a rush the likes of which she has never experienced. She quickly realizes that she needs to find a way to reign in this power before she kills someone. May hates the pleasure it gives her, hates herself for hurting others, but she can't stop.
As her entire world shatters around her, she is forced to ask what her soul is worth-- and who would she risk losing her soul to save?
I went into reading "Daughter of the Fallen" by
Madeline Wynn thinking one thing and came out of it thinking something
completely different. What initially interested me in this book was the
description and paranormal aspect that it held. However, while I was reading
the book, the paranormal parts weren't as enjoyable to me as the other
"normal" parts of the main character's life.
"Daughter of the Fallen" centers around the
character May, and when we first meet her she's hunting ghosts with her friends
for a school project. What could go wrong, right? Wynn starts the action and
gives us the paranormal right away with this scene, because May (literally) stumbles
upon something that's more than she bargained for when she went out on the hunt,
and it starts to take a toll on her daily life. It's not long before she's
having nightmares and seeing shadows out of the corner of her eye.