Title: The LineAuthor: J.D. Horn
Series: Witching Savannah #1
First Published: February 1, 2014
Publisher: 47North
Pages: 298
Genre: Horror, Paranormal, Urban Fantasy
Format: Ebook
Source: Prime Reading
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Synopsis:
Savannah is considered a Southern treasure, a city of beauty with a rich, colorful past. Some might even call it magical…
To the uninitiated, Savannah shows only her bright face and genteel manner. Those who know her well, though, can see beyond her colonial trappings and small-city charm to a world where witchcraft is respected, Hoodoo is feared, and spirits linger. Mercy Taylor is all too familiar with the supernatural side of Savannah, being a member of the most powerful family of witches in the South.
Despite being powerless herself, of course.
Having grown up without magic of her own, in the shadow of her talented and charismatic twin sister, Mercy has always thought herself content. But when a series of mishaps―culminating in the death of the Taylor matriarch―leaves a vacuum in the mystical underpinnings of Savannah, she finds herself thrust into a mystery that could shake her family apart…and unleash a darkness the line of Taylor witches has been keeping at bay for generations.
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Mercy is the black sheep of a powerful Southern witching family that finds herself the center of a conspiracy. The setting and world-building in this novel were solid, and sinister mystery kept me turning the pages. When I finished the book however, I didn’t feel like I got a lot out of the book.
Like many paranormal romance books of era there is a heavy focus on the romance, which consisted of a love triangle between Mercy’s childhood friend and her sister’s boyfriend. Oh drama! I really don’t care for love triangles, so the heavy focus on this turned me off. I liked Mercy initially but as the story progressed I steadily became annoyed with her as a character, especially by the end of the book with a pretty big reveal.
This book was fine but I never felt any drive to continue the rest of the series. I was just not that interested in Mercy’s story and this book cemented to me that paranormal romance was not a genre for me.
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“Forgiveness was not a one-time act. It was a decision to move on and focus on a person’s good features each time the hurt over what they’ve done crept back up on you.”
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About J.D. Horn
J.D. Horn is the Wall Street Journal best-selling author of the Witching Savannah series (The Line, The Source, The Void, and Jilo), the Witches of New Orleans Trilogy (The King of Bones and Ashes, The Book of the Unwinding, The Final Days of Magic), and the standalone Southern Gothic horror tale Shivaree. Horn also has an MBA in international business and formerly held a career as a financial analyst before turning his talent to crafting chilling stories and unforgettable characters. His novels have received global attention and have been translated into Turkish, Russian, Romanian, Polish, Italian, German, and French. Originally from Tennessee, he currently lives in California with his spouse, Rich, and their rescue Chihuahua, Kirby Seamus.
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