When a mad prophet and his beautiful daughter arrive in Enchantment determined to destroy all the Richters by the end of the week, Daire knows she has to stop them. Cade and her beloved Dace are so deeply connected that if one dies, the other will follow.
But Dace has been missing for days, and his soul is in danger.
Relying on the help of her friends, a Mystic with dubious motives, and powers she can’t always trust, Daire sets out to find Dace, restore his soul, and end this deadly new threat before the final countdown begins-all while keeping the Richters from claiming total world domination. But will it prove enough to win the most important fight of her life?
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Have you been following The Soul Seekers series? You can always catch up by checking out my reviews of the previous two books, Fated and Echo.
Okay, I was completely flabbergasted at the end of Echo, and I was at a loss as to how Noel could possibly top such a “complete” story with such a catastrophic ending.
She proved me wrong in spades. Mystic opens in the upperworld, a part of the spirit world that hadn’t been described or visited in the previous two novels. Daire doesn’t spend a whole lot of time there, and the reader is only exposed to a small portion of the world, but I think that in the case of the upperworld (a.k.a Heaven) less is more. It leaves more to the imagination and keeps it wrapped in a shroud of mystery. Especially since the readers have been so exquisitely and intimately acquainted with the lowerworld.
While Cade is still an evil presence in this novel, there is a more dire villain that Daire and Dace have to face upon the impending New Years celebration–and let me tell you, they creep me out much more than Cade and his band of demons.
I really feel like Noel’s development of Daire and Dace really shines in this third installment. Not only do readers get to see Daire grow more independent as a young woman, but we get to see her truly and officially stop fighting her destiny as a seeker. Yes, a lot of her reasoning for abandoning any sort of rebellion was based on love, but not necessarily just her love for Dace–but the immense love that she feels for her grandmother and her family legacy.
Dace grows as well, and we will finally see him not be the squeaky clean all “white energy” brother. He does have a portion of darkness in him now, and it really balances out his character and makes me like him more since he is now more “real” in that he will have to fight the darkness in him like a lot of literary characters.
The plot development is positively divine in Mystic, and I am more excited than ever for the finale in this series. Much like Echo, the plot is going, going, going like Speedy Gonzalez, and just around every plot twist is another mystery to be unraveled.
If you haven’t started the Soul Seekers series, go pick up some copies now. You won’t regret it, I promise!
4.5 Bards
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