Hidden Enemy by JP McLean
Hidden Enemy
by JP McLean
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My Ratings 4.5/5
Synopsis
A forbidden book. A dangerous secret. A life in the balance.
In the wake of a bullet and a broken heart, Emelynn Taylor learns the true portent of a gift she can barely control. Her discovery of a forbidden book unlocks explosive secrets that connect her to a past she never imagined.
Now someone is threatening to expose those secrets, and an unknown assailant is hunting her. With everyone hiding something, whom can she trust? Emelynn is thrust into the eye of a storm as two powerful factions clash: one ancient, one evil. And both of them want a piece of her.
Knowing that not even her gift of flight will save her, Emelynn forms an uneasy partnership with a dangerous man she must learn to trust—and then she must risk her gift and her future to protect her friends’ lives.
The second book in The Gift Legacy series, Hidden Enemy is a thriller that skirts the edges of reality in a world within our own. Climb aboard and escape the ordinary: take flight with Emelynn Taylor.
My Thoughts
You know what’s truly scary? Deciding to introduce a supernatural element to your thriller or mystery fantasy novel. You see, a thriller and/or mystery story depends on the writer achieving rock-solid suspension of disbelief, but the second you begin hinting at ghostly goings on, or perhaps the existence of fairies, you essentially tear down the world you’ve constructed for your trusting readers and ask them to step into a new, less certain one. But sometimes, it works. And sometimes a writer manages to do something that’s so wildly imaginative and wholly believable that it seeps into your subconscious and hooks into a primal stratum of fear.
Novel Hidden Enemy by JP McLean second novel of an amazing series is a Mystery with a paranormal Element. It took nerves of steel to combine the supernatural story along with the pinch of fantasy along with the ‘real world’ story in a way that felt real and authentic. The last thing I wanted was for the paranormal to jolt a reader out of the story, and I also loved that the paranormal and ‘real world’ stories in this novel truly speak to each other, they carve up the book into different storyline entirely.
This novel is a compelling and moving read, with its emotional registers achieved in how JP McLean handles the supernatural element.
Highly Recommended!
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