One Reader's Ramblings

Have you ever finished a book and been just left with:   “WOW!”   I just finished Beloved the last of the Crystor Series by C.K. Bryant and… WOW!   This was such a highly anticipated book for me and I was a little leery because of other books that I looked forward to which have been a disappointment.   This was NOT the case here!

 I have to start by saying that I have wanted to read this for some time.   I found it over a year ago and was intrigued but didn’t want to pay over $6 on a book I hadn’t heard of before.   I kept going back to it though and eventually I saw it somewhere in paperback.   That made me realize that it must also be at the library… aha! I didn’t have to pay a dime.   So off I went to my public library.

These books are fantastic and there are 4 main reasons that I want to touch on to back this up.

Have you ever felt like you had been baited and hooked by a book series?   That is exactly how I felt about The Mystic Series .   I read book #1 in the series, Descension, and it was SO good.   I loved every single one of the characters and I couldn’t wait to give it a fantastic review, but before I did I started book #2, Impassion, and that review faded fast.   

To "plagiarize" means to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own to use (another's production) without crediting the source to commit literary theft to present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source¹ Maybe that’s a little harsh for the book I just finished… but it was what I was thinking most of the time I was reading.   It honestly wasn’t that the story was exactly the same, but the sentiments, dialog, and descriptive passages just felt SO familiar.