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Catalyst
Author: Jennifer Snyder
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After learning she’s inherited a house in the beachside town of Soul Harbor, Georgia, Addison Harmon and her best friend decided to take a much needed vacation before the pressures of life after high school suffocate them too heavily.
But what Addison finds isn’t a chance to recoup from a bad break up and hang out with her best friend while she decides what she wants to do with her future. What she finds is Kace Sullivan—a sexy guy she can’t seem to get enough of—someone who with one touch reveals a seductive world full of magick and secrets Addison isn’t sure she’s ready to be a part of.
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Reviewer: Bridget Strahin
Review: Addison Harmon along with her best friend Vera head to Soul
Harbor to stay at Addison's recently inherited house. It's supposed to be two
weeks of fun in the sun but here's there thing, the house was passed down to
her by her bio-family. A family she's never known and what comes along with a
big creepy house? All kinds of crazy only-happens-in-your-dreams kind of
secrets. But it's how you handle those secrets that will make or break you.
Addison was a
fairly decent lead character. She's just graduated high school, has no idea
what she wants for her future and is just looking for a way to escape and catch
her breath after a bad break up and finding out that a family she's never known
has left her a rather large house. I really clicked with Addison in the beginning
of the book. She comes off as smart, competent, and self-sufficient. She knows
that she is running out of money so what does she do? She gets a job.
Unfortunately though, said job is in a place with a man who knows more about
what and who she is then she does. Then there's a family who gives her bad
vibes and dirty looks and instead of charging up to them and calling them out
(like many stupid stupid lead females do) she instead stays away from them. Why
poke at a bee hive for no good reason, right? It's these qualities that made me
fall in like with her. But then she meets Kace.
Kace Sullivan,
all American, perfect tan and gorgeous hair, walks up to her and it all just
kinda goes to hell in a hand basket. Now don't kill me, because I know there
are a lot of TEAM KACE fans out there but I just couldn't connect with him.
They meet, he invites her to a party, they team up and carry a drunken Vera
home and they make out in her kitchen. Cool, I can dig that. But then it just
seemed like after that their whole insta-relationship revolved around nothing
but sex. It all happened too quick, barely 48 hours into it and he was already
constantly touching her, calling her sexy. It all felt weird. Even when she was
trying to get real information out of him about what she was, he just couldn’t
stop with the innuendos and come-ons. It was like he wasn't taking the severity
of their situation seriously and that he was only thrown in the mix for the
sake of the stereo typed version of NA and that really bothered me. While I was
reading a scene with him in it, I thought, wow,
wouldn't it be hilar if we find out that he's actually married with three kids
and is only using Addison for her powers? Plot twist! That’s probably not
the case of course, but I wouldn't be surprised if he turns out to be the bad
guy. Just saying.
There are so
many things I liked about this book, the setting being a big one of them. Syder
was able to paint the perfect picture of a small beach town in the heat of
Georgia flawlessly. The way she described Addison's house, the restaurants and
book store had me wishing they were real so I could take a vacation to explore
them myself. Another thing was the few supporting characters. Snyder didn’t introduce
a slew of characters that could easily confuse the reader with who is who. Instead
she kept the cast list short and sweet, my favorite being Vera. Hands down, I
loved her!
There isn't
really a climax to this story. It just kinda ends, leaving Addison in a crap
situation that opens the next installment. Which is okay with me, to a point. I
know there are more than a million ways to tell a story and Snyder's ability to
write and tell a story should never be questioned because lady has talent, but
it was all the openness in the end that bugged me. She never actually explores
the situation with her bio-mom, we don't find out why she was given up for
adoption, we don’t find out about the past generations and why there was a big
enough rift to cause Addison's mom to take off in the first place. By the
cover, you assume that Addison is going to come into her powers and start
throwing fire balls or maybe even start a camp fire or something, but we get
nothing of the sort. Yadda yadda, I won't give anymore away but I hope you get
the point.
Overall, Catalyst is a pretty good read. With a
strong cast of leading and supporting characters, a story line that could use
some help, but still enjoyable and enough suspense that will have you jumping
right into book two, this book is definitely worth a shot.
Author Bio: Jennifer Snyder lives in North Carolina were she
spends most of her time writing New Adult and Young Adult Fiction, reading, and
struggling to stay on top of housework. She is a tea lover with an obsession
for Post-it notes and smooth writing pens. Jennifer lives with her husband and
two children, who endure listening to songs that spur inspiration on repeat and
tolerate her love for all paranormal, teenage-targeted TV shows.
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