Air Bound

April 21, 2014
Bestseller Feehan’s third Sisters of the Heart paranormal (after Spirit Bound) has a heroine as bland and colorless as the air that she controls. Airiana Ridell has seen patterns and equations in the air for as long as she can remember. She was part of a government program for teenage geniuses until the murder of her mother led her to flee. Max Prakenskii is a mercenary sent by Airiana’s long-absent father, Theodotus Solovyov, to retrieve her from the close-knit community of Sea Haven, Calif. Max soon recognizes Airiana as a kindred air soul, despite her sheltered unawareness of her own power. As Theodotus’s machinations drag them deeper into a murky underworld of international intrigue and child trafficking, Airiana realizes that Max is in as much danger as she is. Though the paranormal talents of Max and Airiana are unique, the tales of a cold warrior finding a heart and the heroine coming into her own have been better explored elsewhere.

Starred review from June 15, 2014

Born with the uncanny ability to see patterns and portents in anything airborne, mathematical genius and air elemental Airiana Ridell flees the shadowy government research program she was part of after she found her mother brutally murdered and seeks refuge in remote Sea Haven, with a group of similarly gifted women. But safety is an illusion, and when Airi is kidnapped by a ruthless group that needs her expertise, her only hope is Maxim Prakenskii, a fellow air elemental and fugitive--and a man she has no reason to trust but can't resist. VERDICT Sadistic sociopaths, vulnerable children, and a clever plot keep the interest high in this intense and violent but remarkably romantic and often magical story. Feehan (Dark Wolf) lives in Northern California.

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