Elemental: The First

Just who is Halíka Dacomé? To Rose Frost, moving house every six months is normal. Another new town here, another new school there, her ability to adapt is as easy as breathing. But everything changes when her parents go overseas and Rose moves in with her grandmother. She enjoys meeting new friends and catching up with old ones from her childhood holidays — except now she must hide a precious secret from everyone, a gift from birth that defies modern day science. Her dreams become riddled with a warrior woman called Halíka Dacomé, but are they visions or messages from the future? She starts her own investigation but encounters more questions than answers. Living right on the edge of Warminster in Wiltshire doesn’t help with its folklore and myths about strange lights in the sky and ghost stories of the Salisbury Plain Not only that, her troubles really take hold one night when the mysterious Aiden Deverill with his alluring smile, his gorgeous dark looks and hypnotising blue eyes, saves her from a freak fire. Or did he? For Rose, her new life is beginning but she soon realises that despite assurances people are not always what they seem. What she always believed to be a happy family and a friendly town soon turns on its head when she discovers that her family secret, Aiden Deverill and the truth behind Halíka Dacomé is at the heart of the whole conspiracy.

I had absolutely no expectations for this book but I got so surprised! It was exciting and I really like the main character Rose. She felt like a simple teenage girl with the usual problems, easy to identify with. Her relationship with Daisy I hope to read more about in the upcoming books.

There were of course some things I did not really like as well, such as the love triangle and the emotions that just seemed syringe from Rose and Morgan. The action was for the most interesting but it was also pretty much up and down.

That said, a surprisingly good book and I'm really looking forward to the continuation! If you like paranormal / sci-fi / YA you have to check this one out!

Elemental: The First by Alexandra May
Kindle Edition, 274 pages
Pauma Publishing
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