Yeah, there’s plenty of romance in it, but there were times that I could feel my heart rate increase and more than one chill ran down my spin. I think this was one of the darkest and scariest YA paranormal I’ve read in a while, despite the fact that a lot of folks would categorize this as romance. It ended up being one of the first books I bought for Coco the Kobo. It sounded interesting and I loved the cover. The author and I somehow ended up talking and as I always do when I chat with authors, I looked up her book. I discovered this book the way I discover most of my books these days: via Twitter. Yara finds herself entrenched in a sixty-year-old curse that haunts the school, threatening not only her life, but the lives of her closest friends as well. Yara soon realizes that the past she was trying to put behind her isn’t going to go quietly. Her act of heroism draws the mist’s attention, and the dark spirit begins stalking her. She witnesses a dark mist attack Brent, a handsome fellow student, and rushes to his rescue. However, all that changes for Yara on her first day at her elite boarding school when she discovers the gene was only lying dormant. She has been dreading the day when she too would see ghosts, and is relieved that the usually dominant Waker gene seems to have skipped her, letting her live a normal teenage life. Yara grew up watching her grandmother taunted and scorned for this unusual ability and doesn’t want that to be her future. Her grandma, like the other females in her family, is a Waker, someone who can see and communicate with ghosts. Sixteen-year-old Yara Silva has always known that ghosts walk alongside the living.

Intrinsical by Lani Woodland