Compulsion
Author: Martina Boone
Publication Date: October 28th 2014
Publisher: Simon Pulse
~A copy was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review~
Three plantations. Two wishes. One ancient curse.
All her life, Barrie Watson has been a virtual prisoner in the house where she lives with her shut-in mother. When her mother dies, Barrie promises to put some mileage on her stiletto heels. But she finds a new kind of prison at her aunt’s South Carolina plantation instead--a prison guarded by an ancient spirit who long ago cursed one of the three founding families of Watson Island and gave the others magical gifts that became compulsions.
Stuck with the ghosts of a generations-old feud and hunted by forces she cannot see, Barrie must find a way to break free of the family legacy. With the help of sun-kissed Eight Beaufort, who knows what Barrie wants before she knows herself, the last Watson heir starts to unravel her family's twisted secrets. What she finds is dangerous: a love she never expected, a river that turns to fire at midnight, a gorgeous cousin who isn’t what she seems, and very real enemies who want both Eight and Barrie dead.
Hmmm, I had high hopes for Compulsion, three families, magic, gifts, a curse. A line that
goes back, a story that no one really knows but assume to. Dejá vu, anyone?
Compulsion is a story that's already been told, in a manner that isn't anything
new, but I was expecting and hoping
it would have a twist, something that sets it apart from its preceders.
Unfortunately, there wasn't.
