Black Swan Rising

Black Swan Rising by Lee Carroll

Recently I have finished reading Black Swan Rising. It is a story about Garet James who has a hidden destiny that her mother kept secret from her. She lost her mother at the age of 16 and was never told about the past of her ancestors. Then her father was shot at there home/gallery in New York. She decides to take matters into her own hands when her father is being accused for a robbery and shooting himself. Strange events start to happen when she is given a silver box that has been sealed closed by an elderly man in an antiques store. He requests her to take it and open it and then return it the next day. Thieves break into her house and steal valuable as well as the box that she had opened hours before. While investigating the theft and shooting of her father she comes across a newspaper article with a man standing under an archway with her Black Swan crest on it. She meet the man, Will hughes, who she finds out to be a stunning four hundred year old vampire that new her ancestors. Things start to get very strange for her as there had been multiple attempt on her life. She finds out that she is different, that she is a Watchtower who is to protect the divide between the human world and the summer country, a supernatural world where vampires, fairies, pixies, and many other creatures live. One of her new friends teaches her about her powers and how to find the man who stole the box to bring destruction the human world. She succeeds in stopping the destruction of the world but her vampire lover and the box disappear. She finds herself with out all of her supernatural friends but still has all her magic. Will she find her friends? Will they reappear in the next book or will the story completely change?
This is an amazing story of destruction, fantasy, love and friendship. The story is slow till a couple of chapters in but then things really pick up the pace. The love between Will and Garet is an addiction and you want to know where he is next going to pop up and how their relationship is going to advance. There is a very good twist in the story towards the end with one of her newly acquired friends. Garet herself is a strong character that has not confidence. She is a character that doesn’t take things lightly and will always do her best to finish something. She looks more after other people than herself. When she is learning her magic there isn’t anything that she can’t learn, she was quick to learn and to become strong.
I recommend this book to anybody, whether you like vampires or not the book is definitely in my must reads. If you can’t wait for the next one you don’t have long, The Watchtower by Lee Carroll, the second in the series, will be out on the 4th August. I definitely rate this a 5 star book.

Enjoy all my little viewers. Have a good read.