A review by empressofbookingham
Teken aan de wand by J.T. Ellison
4.0
How far would you go to get what you deeply desire? This a question that Ellison evoked in me while I devoured her works. So how far would you go?
This narrative is told from a 1st person point of view with the main characters weaving a succinct but diabolical world into the readers imagination with their thoughts and actions. As mighty, lovable, successful, vivid but raw as they're are they show how human can be prone to the negations of life. How forgiveness is essential as well as love and family.
Ellison does an amazing work of filling us up on the back-story that makes up Taylor Jackson and his world. Thus can be read as a Standalone. She even intrigues me further because the previous books touches on the serial killer, The Pretender, and the havoc he brought into her world to the point she was speechless.
It was a 1st for me to read a narrative spewed by an unreliable narrator but not because Jackson chose so. But where she is in Edinburgh (where the Dead lay after the war that spew plenty of blood) I did not know if it was the ghosts that came to avenge or if it was one of the vivid hallucinations Taylor had thanks to a devious fiend.
Themes of violence, love, family, betrayal, forgiveness, hope, redemption, fear power are clearly depicted here while the writing style was a bit foreign to begin with (Nashville meets London lingo) I adjusted well.
And yes, the desired effect I wanted with this book was well meet for me to want more & more of her works. More adrenaline rush from you mami is well welcomed.
This narrative is told from a 1st person point of view with the main characters weaving a succinct but diabolical world into the readers imagination with their thoughts and actions. As mighty, lovable, successful, vivid but raw as they're are they show how human can be prone to the negations of life. How forgiveness is essential as well as love and family.
Ellison does an amazing work of filling us up on the back-story that makes up Taylor Jackson and his world. Thus can be read as a Standalone. She even intrigues me further because the previous books touches on the serial killer, The Pretender, and the havoc he brought into her world to the point she was speechless.
It was a 1st for me to read a narrative spewed by an unreliable narrator but not because Jackson chose so. But where she is in Edinburgh (where the Dead lay after the war that spew plenty of blood) I did not know if it was the ghosts that came to avenge or if it was one of the vivid hallucinations Taylor had thanks to a devious fiend.
Themes of violence, love, family, betrayal, forgiveness, hope, redemption, fear power are clearly depicted here while the writing style was a bit foreign to begin with (Nashville meets London lingo) I adjusted well.
And yes, the desired effect I wanted with this book was well meet for me to want more & more of her works. More adrenaline rush from you mami is well welcomed.