{"id":103,"date":"2012-05-22T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=103"},"modified":"2015-02-10T11:13:14","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T17:13:14","slug":"fated-soul-seekers-1-by-alyson-noel-fiction-spirit-worlds-souls-unbound-evil-or-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=103","title":{"rendered":"Fated, by Alyson Noel (book review) – spirit worlds, souls unbound, evil or good"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"book<\/a>She sees him in her dreams,
\nthose visions that sent her over the edge of sanity,
\nleading her to an adobe house in the desert,<\/a>
\nto the grandmother she’s never known,
\nto the small town where she sees him, in the flesh.
\nBound together by love or for evil?<\/p>\n

Happy book birthday to Fated<\/i>, hitting bookstore shelves today (May 22, 2012) in the USA – lucky UK readers have been devouring this first book in the Soul Seeker series for some time, and raving about it, too.<\/p>\n

You may start to see its book trailer on TV or explore the Soul Seekers website<\/a> or like its Facebook page<\/a>, but you have to read the book for yourself to discover what Daine finds out about herself, her spirit animal guide<\/a>, and twin brothers Cade and Dace.\u00a0 Noel also has released a short story<\/a> in which Ever from her popular The Immortals<\/i> series meets Daire.
\n**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/b>: Fated (Soul Seekers, book 1) \/ Alyson Noel. St. Martin’s Griffin, 2012. [author’s website<\/a>]\u00a0\u00a0 [publisher site<\/a>]\u00a0\u00a0 [UK book trailer<\/a>]\u00a0 [US book trailer<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n

My Book Talk<\/b>:\u00a0 Time\u2019s flow restarts, and the glowing people observe Daine from shadowed nooks, as she traverses the Moroccan marketplace on the way to her 16th<\/sup> birthday dinner. Not jet lag, no matter what her mother says \u2013 why can Daine alone move among the time-frozen people and animals? And why does she suddenly see severed heads on bloody spikes along the city walls, a murder of crows, the glowing ones attacking?<\/p>\n

All her life, it\u2019s been just Daine and her makeup-artist mom, traveling from movie set to movie set, her school classes done online, no other family, no problems. But now these visions and Daine\u2019s uncontrollably violent reactions to them have changed all that.<\/p>\n

Suddenly, her grandmother calls \u2013 for the first time in Daine\u2019s life, she has another relative \u2013 and it\u2019s decided that she must go to her rural New Mexico home and learn how to cope with her\u2026 abilities? For Paloma (mother of the father who died before Daine was born) is a seer and a healer who claims that these gifts are part of the teen\u2019s heritage.<\/p>\n

First time separated from her mother, first time to attend school, first time to ride a horse \u2013 Daine gradually shakes off her mental exhaustion to realize that whatever haunted her in Morocco is even stronger here. As she learns from grandmother Paloma about their family lineage as Soul Seekers, she also discovers that nearby vortexes lead to other worlds and that a strong family of ruthless soul-eaters will try to use them \u2013 and her \u2013 to bring more evil into this world.<\/p><\/div>\n

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A blind girl who sees auras, a vision quest for Daine\u2019s spirit animal, twins separated at birth who mirror the light and the dark of this struggle \u2013 who could imagine that this small town of Enchantment would be the site of a soul-battle on Dia de los Muertos, the Day of the Dead? First in the Soul Seekers trilogy, Daine strives to discover if she\u2019s truly Fated<\/i> to be part of all this. (One of 5,000 books recommended on www.abookandahug.com<\/a>) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

She sees him in her dreams, those visions that sent her over the edge of sanity, leading her to an adobe house in the desert, to the grandmother she’s never known, to the small town where she sees him, in the flesh. Bound together by love or for evil? Happy book birthday to Fated, hitting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,51,41],"tags":[22,7,4,75,20,37,18,44,185,43,39,38,49,63,21,66,35,3,6,8,28,72],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legends","category-mystery","category-paranormal","tag-behavior","tag-beliefs","tag-belonging","tag-brothers","tag-conflict","tag-death","tag-family","tag-friendship","tag-grandparents","tag-growing-up","tag-love","tag-magic","tag-memories","tag-native-americans","tag-self-image","tag-series","tag-surprises","tag-teens","tag-travel","tag-us-author","tag-villains","tag-visions"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5102,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions\/5102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}