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My Review:Title: When Knowing Comes (Secrets of Windy Springs Book 2)
Author: Valarie Savage Kinney, Wicked Muse
Published by: Indie
Release Date: March 10, 2018
Format: ebook
Pages: 173
Genres: Fantasy, Romance
Source: the author
Reading Challenges: CC's Goodreads Reading Challenge
Find it: Goodreads ✩ Amazon
My rating:
Blurb:Twisted magic pervades the enchanted forest at Windy Springs Renaissance Festival. Strange physical symptoms plague Keisha as her second season of vending at Windy Springs begins.
Violence and destruction bring fear to the festival as long-harbored secrets threaten to emerge. When stunning truths are unveiled, Keisha struggles to come to grips with a new reality. Will her relationship with Rogan withstand the coming changes or will the darkness he reveals about his past destroy the promise of their future?
When Knowing Comes is the second book in the Secrets of Windy Springs series. Grab your copy today and find out what mysteries await within the magical forest at Windy Springs.
I’m one of the lucky ones that got an ARC of this book but I bought it anyway so my review on Amazon would be legit.
Keisha seems to really struggle this year, with the birth of her daughter who is sickly. That part was pretty heartbreaking. I do like the fact that no one is perfect in this book. Between all the strange things happening at the faire, she’s pulled deeper into her husbands world and has to learn how to navigate it. I can feel her confusion and the second guessing of her feelings. Her emotions are very well written.
I really love the setting of this story. It makes my heart happy. I mean, who doesn’t love a good ren-faire? Everyone getting together to play dress up and be nerdy together. It’s so fun to escape the present and go back to a simpler time. I myself have been to many and have a dress (which I purchases at a ren-faire in Michigan when we lived there) that I wear to them. I try to go every year but we haven’t been to one in a couple.
I love how all the characters, while playing a part, are not really playing a part if that makes sense. Like hiding in plain sight I guess. Not all of the faire folk have powers, but the ones that do have unusual and almost barely described powers. It’s like the author decided to give us just a hint of what powers they are capable of and allowed our imaginations to run wild trying to figure out what the rest could be. I have read other stories that do this and I really like them because I feel like its more interactive for the reader. I don’t know if I’m explaining that very well but its all I can say.
Another aspect of their ‘knowing’ that I thought was an excellent twist was that the power was a dual edged sword in that while some of the ‘knowing’ people has addictive personalities and dealt with some mental illness. It gave the background a deeper layer than they just had powers ya know?
Anyway, this book was awesome and you should go read it.
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