Storm of Visions (Chosen Ones, Book 1)

Christina Dodd moves you into and through this book so fast that you find you have read it all in one setting. Its a good set up for a new series but at the end it leaves you wondering about who the bad guys are, will the Wilder women eventually appear and kick butt again; and well, how does young Wilder eventually tie into all this. Will he and his cousins grow into their own series? Good thing the next installment is due in just a couple of weeks. If you can't wait that long just read this one again.

I was so happy when I saw Christina Dodd was starting another paranormal series because I loved her last one. And I was rewarded with this book! I like big stories and big romance and this book gave me both. The plot was meaty and the romance was steamy (Think HEROES meets J.R. Ward!). Lots of adventure and kissing! I can't wait for the next book to come out next month and I love that I don't have to wait an entire year for it. Great new series!

Since others have summed up the plot so well, I'll just say that this is a real page-turner. It was so full of action and fun and sexiness that I actually forgot I was reading. Very cool idea for a series, and the best thing is that it picks up right where the last series left off. Loved Caleb and Jacqueline, their relationship was very erotic and tender and you could feel how much he cared about her. Great book, highly reccommended!

Long ago, in a village at the edge of a forest, there lived a young, gloriously beautiful woman. This woman thought so highly of herself, she decided she would only accept a mate worthy of her loveliness, and someone who was her equal in his masculine beauty. She found a splendid match in the handsome eldest son of a local lord--and as vain as they both were, they knew they would create babies as beautifully perfect as themselves. Well, within the year she was happily pregnant; and confident she would greatly please the lord's son when she presented him with a fine, strong baby boy. But alas, that was not to be, she delivered instead a pair of scrawny twins--a boy and girl--who were not perfect at all. The boy's arms were terribly blemished with a red discoloring, and the girl had a mark in the palm of her hand that looked like an eye. Frightened and disgusted, the woman immediately decided these children would not do. So she got up from her bed and took the little babies into the forest where she discarded the boy deep in the woods, and tossed the girl into a flowing stream--then, without a backward glance, their heartless mother left the woods... In that first moment of merciless abandonment the poor little babies' heart's stopped beating--they died--and then miraculously came back to life; though somehow changed. Instead of perishing as their mother intended, the children were endowed with extraordinary gifts... they became the first of the Abandoned Ones. The boy was rescued by wanderers and taken to live in India, where he became a legend--for his gift was the amazing ability to create fire in the palm of his hand. As time passed he found 6 more abandoned children who had been given special gifts and together they formed --The Chosen Ones--a powerful force of good and "light' in a dark troubled world. The girl was pulled from the water by evil witch--a disciple of the devil--who, after seeing the eye on the baby's hand, knew she was special and took her home to raise. But the witch tormented, starved and abused the child; and she learned anger and hatred. When the girl became a woman she had her first vision--the death of the witch by her hands--and learned she had the powerful psychic gift of a seer. After killing the witch, the devil appeared before her, and recognizing her gift, he promised her a place at his right hand if she went out into the world and gathered others like herself to do his evil work. The girl agreed. She found 6 more angry, abused or embittered forsaken children who also had special, powerful gifts; and together they formed--The Others. Throughout history so the battle lines had been drawn between the Chosen Ones and the Others--each side using their special powers to fight for good or for evil... Their struggle rages on today and the supreme test for a new untried league of Chosen Ones has begun; their mission is to use their unique gifts to courageously confront and vanquish the evil force

What a great read! It starts off with a bang (be sure to check out that shower scene!) and it doesn't stop...not even at the end since it's set up so well for the next novel, Storm of Shadows. Caleb and Jacqueline are the focus of the love story, of course, and a damn sexy love story it is. But the rest of the novel reads like action-suspense with all of the new Chosen Ones being named and all the disasters that befall them and some really funny tidbits about what it's like to deal with a new group of people and their foibles. Christina Dodd has never failed me, especially in this genre, and I'm so excited to get the next book in less than a month!