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REVIEW: Darkside Sun by Jocelyn Adams

March 14, 2014 by Jaime Leave a Comment

DARKSIDE SUN (MORTAL MACHINE #1)
By: Jocelyn Adams
Publication Date:  2014
Darkside Sun (Mortal Machine, #1)
Summary
Addison Beckett tries hard to pretend she’s normal, but she’s far from it. Since she was six years old, she’s seen the world around her unraveling, as if someone is pulling a thread from a sweater and it’s all slowly coming undone. When she ignores it, it goes away, so that’s what she does. 

Enter her arrogant-but-hot professor Asher Green. He knows all about her special brand of crazy. In fact, he might be just as nuts as she is. Asher insists that the dead from a parallel dimension are trying to possess the living in this one. And since Addison seems to be the only one who can see these “wraiths,” she just might be the key to saving the world. 

Addison wants nothing to do with Asher or his secret society, The Mortal Machine. But as their animosity grows, she finds it harder and harder to ignore the chemistry between them. And when she discovers that Machine laws forbid her from touching him, she realizes that’s all she wants to do. 

Stop the wraiths. Break the rules. Save the world. All in a day’s work. Normal was overrated, anyway.

About Jocelyn
Jocelyn AdamsJocelyn is an office grunt by day and creator of romance and adventure by night. Born a farmer’s daughter with a vivid imagination, she spent her childhood dreaming up stories that remained untold until 2010.

With no formal training, she relied on the honest feedback of her writing group to take her from that first short story all the way to THE END of her first novel. She now has five published novels and has recently signed a 3-book deal with Entangled Publishing.

When she isn’t slinging words, you can find her shooting her bow or enjoying the serenity of family life in her little house in the woods.

Erin’s Thoughts

Darkside Sun by Jocelyn Adams

My rating: 3.5 of 5 stars

Darkside Sun was a book that was brought to my attention and when I read the summary I was intrigued (hence the shelf it is on). I was pleasantly surprised with this story – there were some good and not so good parts (from my point of view) but in all, I thought this was a good book one for this series and I am interested to see where Adams goes with it.

Addison has always felt different – at least since she was six years old when she started seeing weird things happening to the walls in her house and other odd things coming through them. Now that she is in college it is a bit more difficult to hide the crazy stuff and on the day that we are introduced to her, she is headed to her Ancient Civilizations class which is taught by Professor Green. It also happens to be the day that she loses 30 minutes of her day with no idea what the heck happened. As she gets to class late, she realizes that Professor Green is going to make an example of her. What she doesn’t know is that something will come through the rift and expose her secret to Professor Green.

As the story unfolds, Addison finds out that Green is more than just a professor. He is part of a secret society called the Mortal Machine that has been tasked with protecting the world from wraiths and ensuring they don’t cross over and ultimately take over this world. As Addison is pulled unwillingly into this world, she is also threatened with losing the only person who has meant anything to her, her dad.

Green drags her into the Machine and slowly comes to understand just how much power Addison possesses. Mostly because, as we come to find, he has been watching her for years and know she can not only see the rift, but she can see the wraiths that are coming through. This is a big deal because no one else can do this. To keep her in line, he continually threatens to take away her identity and memories not only for her protection but for her dad’s. In the end, she does give in and decides that she will help if they promise to protect her father.

Addison was a bit confusing. She was quiet and allowed people to walk all over her at times and then there were other times where she was forceful and stood up for herself. I liked her more when she stood up for herself and as she started to grow into who she is and became comfortable with the power inside her, she became a more interesting character. I am interested to see what changes with her in the next book as she went through a lot and without giving away the end, I have a feeling that what happened will make an impact.

I’m not really sure how I feel about Asher Green. I get it…he is fighting hard against the draw he has toward Addison based on the things he has been led to believe by the Machine but the way he spoke to her and at times, treated her, made me cringe. I wish there were more of the parts where he wasn’t so cold and withdrawn from Addison. It might have made the feelings these two had for each other more believable. With that said, the ending was a killer and I can’t believe what he decided to do.

I liked the secondary characters and thought they added something to the rest of the book. Sofia and Remy are great and balance out the personalities of the other Sentinels. Where most of them are standoffish and don’t interact well with others, these two adapt to Addison’s personality and the human things she brings to the Machine, like touching, talking about things and just being human. I do have a feeling there is more to the Colonel than has been explained and I am curious to learn more about him.

I am interested to see where Adams goes with the rest of this story as there are still quite a few loose ends. Izan and his motives were not really resolved as he kind of disappeared at the end of the book. Additionally, we find out more about Addison’s mom but I’m hoping we get more exposure to who she was and where she is now. Obviously there is more to come with Asher and Addison but I just don’t know what and based on the ending, you can bet I will be checking out the next book to learn more. If you like a fast paced, paranormal that has some definite UST, you might like this one.

Thank you to the publisher for the review copy.

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