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A review by athenany
The Shimmering Road by Hester Young
5.0
Disclosure: I received a free copy of this book through a Goodreads giveaway.
This book was amazing... Hester Young is an incredible author. I loved her first book, The Gates of Evangeline, and while this book shares a common thread in that it centers around Charlie Cates's unique psychic sensitivity, the story and location could not be more different. Young makes the beauty and intensity of the southwestern desert come alive, and paints an eerie picture of border cities and the seediness found there, in the same way that she made the sleepy Louisiana bayou spring to life in the prior book. I love Charlie's character. I think I read somewhere that this is supposed to be a trilogy, but if this ended up as an ongoing series of Charlie's adventures in solving mysteries I would NOT complain.
This book was amazing... Hester Young is an incredible author. I loved her first book, The Gates of Evangeline, and while this book shares a common thread in that it centers around Charlie Cates's unique psychic sensitivity, the story and location could not be more different. Young makes the beauty and intensity of the southwestern desert come alive, and paints an eerie picture of border cities and the seediness found there, in the same way that she made the sleepy Louisiana bayou spring to life in the prior book. I love Charlie's character. I think I read somewhere that this is supposed to be a trilogy, but if this ended up as an ongoing series of Charlie's adventures in solving mysteries I would NOT complain.