Title: Visions (A Cainsville Novel)
Author: Kelley Armstrong
Rating: 5/5 Stars
Genre: Urban Fantasy Mystery
Publisher: Dutton an imprint of Penguin
Publish Date: August 19, 2014
As #1 New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong’s new Cainsville series continues, Olivia’s power to read omens leads to the discovery of a gruesome crime with troubling connections to her new hometown.
Omens, the first installment in Kelley Armstrong’s exciting new series, introduced Olivia Taylor-Jones, daughter of notorious serial killers, and Gabriel Walsh, the self-serving, morally ambiguous lawyer who became her unlikely ally. Together, they chased down a devious killer and partially cleared her parents of their horrifying crimes.
Their success, however, is short-lived. While Olivia takes refuge in the old, secluded town of Cainsville, Gabriel’s past mistakes have come to light, creating a rift between the pair just when she needs his help the most.
Olivia finds a dead woman in her car, dressed to look like her, but the body vanishes before anyone else sees it. Olivia’s convinced it’s another omen, a sign of impending danger. But then she learns that a troubled young woman went missing just days ago—the same woman Olivia found dead in her car. Someone has gone to great lengths to kill and leave this young woman as a warning. But why? And what role has her new home played in this disturbing murder?
Olivia’s effort to uncover the truth places her in the crosshairs of old and powerful forces, forces that have their own agenda, and closely guarded secrets they don’t want revealed.
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~ Karen Stuck in Cainsville and loving it! ~
I reveled in the magic that is Cainsville, in Kelley Armstrong Visions. This is not a book of blatant magic, but one built of subtle nuisances of Welsh, Celtic and Irish folklore; transplanted to rural Illinois. Just as human beings immigrated to the new world so did the traditions and mythos that help forge civilizations.
If you are looking for the standard paranormal or urban fantasy romance; then you might be disappointed. As this book isn’t about romance; it is about full blood and bones relationships; ones that aren’t easily defined or maintained.
The books follow Olivia Taylor-Jones an Chicagoneon socialite, who discovers she is adopted and the biological child of two serial killers. Talk about a shocker, did someone order a bottle of vodka! Poor girl doesn’t know what hit her. In book one Omens, Olivia went about; with the help of her mother’s attorney Gabriel Walsh, trying to prove they are innocent. I fear what will happen if they aren’t! Or if Olivia finds out they were set up, by the town that she has come to care deeply about.
Book two has Olivia and Gabriel on the quest to solve another mystery. This one centers around a young woman’s disappearance and what Cainsville has to do with it.
Armstrong does a stellar job in mingling mystery adventure, folklore, and Olivia’s personal struggles in an imaginative and thoroughly enjoyable urban fantasy read. I enjoyed all the characters the good, the bad and the indifferent; as they all fit together as puzzle pieces in the intricate world of Cainsville.
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About the Author
Kelley Armstrong has been telling stories since before she could write. Her earliest written efforts were disastrous. If asked for a story about girls and dolls, hers would invariably feature undead girls and evil dolls, much to her teachers’ dismay. All efforts to make her produce “normal” stories failed.
Today, she continues to spin tales of ghosts and demons and werewolves, while safely locked away in her basement writing dungeon. She’s the author of the NYT-bestselling “Women of the Otherworld” paranormal suspense series and “Darkest Powers” young adult urban fantasy trilogy, as well as the Nadia Stafford crime series. Armstrong lives in southwestern Ontario with her husband, kids and far too many pets.
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