100 Pages A Day...Stephanie's Book Reviews

The Fury family has lived in hiding for thousands of years, marked as witches, the women in the family in the family have a genetic abnormality that give them extended lifespans.  The men of the family are not so lucky they have  a normal lifespan and are infertile.  In the present day, the Furies hide on an extensive compound, posing as an Amish community.  They are ruled by a council of their Elder women and have to get permission to leave if they would like to find a mate. When Ariel meets John, she plans to do just that; but her enemies have followed her and John gets pulled into a battle that he can not begin to understand.

I'm pretty sure I picked up this book because I had a severe case of cover love combined with the word witches and genetic enhancement in the blurb and I thought this was going to be something completely different than what it actually was.  It was mostly a running from people shooting at you type of thriller for the first third of the book. I was really intrigued by the Fury women's abnormality and their history. Unfortunately, most of this information was given in dumps when Ariel has to fill in John on her family's complicated back story.  The prologue is set in the 1600's and then the rest of the story is in present day, it may have helped to jump back and forth in time. I kept reading because I really wanted to know what happened to the antagonist, Sullivan and find out  more about the genetics behind the women.
This book would be better for someone who wants a shoot-em-up action-thriller rather than a new outlook on witches. 

This book was received for free in return for an honest review. 

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