Luminous by Jasmine Angell

Title: Luminous
Author: Jasmine Angell
Paperback, 523 pages

Expected publication: November 2013 by Lulu Publishing Services (first published August 12th 2013)

original title: Luminous

ISBN13: 9781483403182

edition language: English

Series: Psyne #1

What would you do if the world you loved was taken from you forever?
…and what would you sacrifice to get it back?

Magical, Mythical, Mesmerizing…

A powerful race of beings lives and works among us and we don’t even know it. To us, they are known as mermaids, sirens and water nymphs, but they call themselves the Psyne. They have lived on Earth since ancient times, wield powerful magic and have only one weakness—love.

When Psyne suddenly start disappearing around the globe, the remaining aquatars are evacuated to their home world and a ban is placed on Earth. Ilauria, a devoted servant to the Psyne Council, can’t abide abandoning the missing eight, and with the help of her long-time friend, Shivan, and a subversive member of the Venvian Psyne named Adante, she embarks on a harrowing rescue mission to uncover who or what is powerful enough to subdue her kind.

What Ilauria discovers will cause her to question her loyalties, reexamine her dual nature, and will shake the very foundations of the truths her society holds dear.

Jasmine was born in Tucson, Arizona, the oldest of two children. She spent her teen years living in Phoenix, Arizona and then attended the University of Arizona in Tucson where she earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Creative Writing. She married and moved to Salt Lake City, Utah where her husband attended graduate school at the University of Utah. There she adopted a love for the changing seasons, snowboarding and the beauty of the mountains.

She spent several years working on a literary novel but found her heart wasn’t in it. Finally she quit her day job to write full time and embraced her life-long love of fantasy fiction.  She wrote Luminous, the first novel in the Psyne series (pronounced “sign”) and followed it up with the sequel, Prism, due out the summer of 2014.  With a third series novel in the works and no end in sight, Jasmine will be spending a great deal of time in the Psyne Universe over the next several years.  When she’s not writing or spending time with her family, she loves to horseback ride, dance, make elaborate costumes just for the fun of it, and is always planning her next decadent tea party

Places to find Jasmine

Blog: http://jasmineangell.wordpress.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LuminousNovel

Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7226300.Jasmine_Angell

Linkedln: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jasmine-angell/78/23/ba0

Twitter: https://twitter.com/JasmineXAngell

Website: http://www.jasmineangell.com/Luminous

 

I love mermaids, I’m facinated with them and any story containing mermaids I’m eager to read. Lumious was a beautiful story that send us on a search mission. It’s packed with action, and even in mermaid stories there are the bad guys. Here is twist and turns I didn’t expected and in the end, I really loved Luminous. Jasmine developed her characters so well, she has an unique writing style and I can’t wait for the next one.

Although I loved it at the end, I did struggle to get into this one.

Good luck with Luminous and I wish you all the best,

To buy Links for Luminous:

Amazon:http://www.amazon.com/Luminous-Psyne-Series-Jasmine-Angell-ebook/dp/B00EIHFC7W/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1382114946&sr=8-1&keywords=Jasmine+Angell

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Kind Regards,

Adrienne