A review by slc333
Awakening by Wendy Corsi Staub

3.0

Enjoyable story with well drawn realistic characters. No one is all good or all bad. For example Calla's ex-boyfriend Kevin dumped her by text for a girl he met in college but you can see he still cares about her. And Calla's behaviour and feelings about Kevin are realistic. She his hurt and heartbroken and wants to avoid him which is natural but she also struggles with not being over him and remembering the good times. And Calla & Blue's interaction (one of the hot guys in Lily Dale where she moves in with her grandmother after her mother's death) is realistic too. She wants him to ask her out because he is good looking, he is probably interested because she is pretty and new in town. Neither of them are madly in love with the other - it is all very casual they go out a couple of times and have fun. The main problem with this this book was the abrupt finish before the story was complete. The story arc with her mother is obviously intended to span the series (4 books) but the book would have felt more complete and finished if the storyline about Kaitlyn was concluded in this book instead of the next. Having read both it feels like books 1 and 2 were written as one story then randomly split in half. Don't let that put you off reading it though - just make sure you have both Awakwning and Believing beofer you start reading.