Publisher: Glory Press
Publication Date: January 30, 2016
Genre: YA, Urban Fantasy
Pages: 491
Source: ebook from Author
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Goodreads Description
Seventeen year-old Asha's days are spent training in martial arts, attending homeschool classes, and helping in the kitchens of a luxurious Miami resort which she seldom leaves. Until the night her grandfather arrives home mysteriously injured, accompanied by a terrifying stranger. Asha begins to suspect that nothing is what it seems when she is abruptly sent to Punjab, India to live with relatives she never knew she had.
Joined by her best friend, Lexi, and her newfound cousin, Nidhan, Asha is soon drawn to an unusual place where the three of them learn that our World is much more than it appears. And there is a good reason people are afraid of the dark.
Meet The Infernal Guard: Shape-shifting Jodha warriors, Seers of various psychic Talents, Healers, Illusionists, and weapons-creating Tvastars. They are the gifted few who fight to protect our realm from demonic Underworlders escaping the seven lower dimensions of Hindu Mythology's Fourteen Worlds.
As the next generation of heroes from around the globe gathers to begin training, Asha discovers true love and a family in her friends and instructors. But something in the darkness knows that she alone possesses the rarest Talent of all. Now Asha must find the courage and strength to risk everything she has gained before a devouring evil like no other The Infernal Guard has ever faced destroys our realm's very existence.
My Thoughts
Emergence follows Asha, a 16 year old living with her grandfather in Miami. Her days are filled with home school, martial arts, and helping her grandfather in a restaurant in the resort they live in. At the beginning, Asha's grandfather returns home with mysterious injuries and without any explanation he decides to send her to live with family in Punjab, India.
I have some mixed opinions about this book. Overall I enjoyed the plot and looked forward to seeing how everything worked out. On the other hand while I was reading I found myself picking at things about the writing and composition of the story. One of the biggest problems I had was the pacing. There were times that the story dragged because it was drowned in details that weren't always necessary and other times the scene flew past before I had time to fully grasp what was going on. The training scenes were really well done and I wish there were a few more of them.
By the end, it's clear the story isn't over. I have no idea where the story might go from where it left off. While I think it could have been amazing if it was cleaned up, Emergence is a fun urban fantasy.
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