Undying Light (The Stella Maris Series Book 1) by Aurora Wildey – Review by Beverly Finnie

Undying Light by Aurora Wildey
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I’m going to say my rating is more of a 3.5 vs 4.
Undying Light is different. A book I wasn’t a fan of when I started to read it, however it got better the longer I stuck with it. In the past I’ve abandoned books long before I’ve given them a chance. This time I went with my gut and gave it a chance. To say I was confused at first, extremely! It took till about 20% of the way in that things started to come together and make sense. So what the author did was write this book in the perspective of 3 different characters. Every 3rd chapter or so you made it back to a particular character’s point of view. Which is why it was confusing.
Why tell a story in this way?
What do these 3 characters have to do with one another?
Well that first question I posed only the author can answer, but you can speculate. I will say this, in the end it worked but you need to make sure if you felt as I did you push through.
The 2nd question gets answered around the 20% point when these characters start crossing paths and start becoming fixtures in each other’s lives.
Kaela a young girl beyond extremely smart and beyond her years. She’s a homebody and doesn’t really have any friends besides Gavin. Being outcasts brought them together. She’s different though and she knows it. She knows she has powers but doesn’t have the answers as to why. Well our next character does. Seth has been around a long time. He has been living a life of immortality and endless loneliness. Because though he’s had and felt love it never lasts, due to his condition. When Seth crosses paths with Kaela he knows immediately she’s someone of his kind. One he didn’t know existed. One he pledges to protect from that moment on. Also has hopes that she will grow to want him as well.
Then there’s Terran. Terran has his own secret. prosecutor by day, vigilante supernatural by night. Yet not that anyone knows it’s him or what he is. Until he saves Kaela one night. She sees him in his true form and he sees the little bit of magic she can currently do. He’s also the prosecutor on the case of the man who survived that attacked her.
All 3 characters are supernatural beings. That you will just have to read to find out about.
Are Terran and Seth able to keep Kaela safe?
Is there an even bigger danger lurking in the wings?
Like I said early on, the author’s use of 3 different perspectives is confusing at first. More because of the questions it creates and less due to the context. I say that because those questions start to resolve themselves once these 3 are in each other’s lives.
Was it worth pushing through for?
Yes, I think so. I look forward to other books by this author in the future. As well as the potential of other books in what looks like to be the beginning of a series.

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