Sunday, March 18, 2012

The Watcher Trilogy: Awakening by Karice Bolton

Awakening, the first book of Author Karice Bolton's “The Watchers Trilogy” isn't your typical boy meets girl story. It is a great mix of romance and spirituality that should appeal to quite a range of readers. Ana is a young woman that has a normal life with a job, friends, a dog and a condo. When some out of town customers walk into the tavern where she works she has no idea that her life is about to change. When Ana waits on the pair of strangers she gets an odd feeling and then is curious when they order for three. Soon the third party shows and she feels a strange attraction to him. That evening Ana gets a phone call only to find out that it is the one of the strangers she served earlier that evening. She agrees to meet him and is surprised to find him just stepping out of the elevator when she walks out of her door. She gets in and goes to the lobby where the other two strangers are waiting. Soon, the four of them go out for the evening and Ana is about to learn there is much more to her life then she realizes. The three of them explain to Ana that they are all fallen angels, white demons, and that she had been taking away from them. She listens to a story of how the four of them have been together from the beginning of time and they intervene when black demons tempt humans to go down the wrong path. They further explain how she had been killed in an attack by black demons and they have been waiting decades for her to awaken enough to feel their presence. Listening to their story Ana comes to the realization this might have something to do with all the nightmares she has been having. After a few days of Ana hanging around with Athen, Arie and Cyril weird things start happening. Ana finds that she can feel when the others are near, she starts having vision and her appearance changes starting with her eyes. The weirdest is when she is attacked by a demon and Athen comes to her rescue. Over the next few weeks these bizarre events excel and some of the visions that Ana had start coming true. The worst of these involves the fate of her beloved Athen being taken out by a group of black demons. The book ends with Ana's vision of Athen's demise comes true. Now, her, Arie and Cyril must do their best to Awaken Athen.