My Review for 'Luminosity' - Old Celtic Myths and Sagas Shining through Luminosity

Luminosity has been the first book I've read by Stacy McWilliams, not realising that it has a prequel. After having read the first few lines, I felt drawn into a strange atmosphere of being surrounded by evil creatures. Jasmine Johnstone, whose parents had died through a car accident, an orphan at the age of five, had been through several foster cares until she arrived at the Stevenson family. Despite her strong longing to, finally, belong to a family where she could stay and was wanted, she only finds coldness, hatred and brutality. When Jasmine strangely feels drawn towards Nathan, the 17 year old son of the Stevenson family, she does not know that she has been chosen to be a acrifice for him to make, in order to feed and sustain not only the demon family but also the whole of demonship. While Jasmine, the human amongst a demon family, is discovering strength and power in herself she had not known of, Nathan, the demon, finds more human aspects in his character through his relationship with Jasmine. The atmosphere of Luminosity is dark and otherworldly, frightening. It strongly reminds me of the old Celtic sagas where good and evil are battling to conquer the world of humans. I loved reading the book. I find it different from many other stories of this genre and was pleasantly surprised. The concept of a dark world inhabited by demons and, at the same time, human emotions, longings and feelings, a struggle since the beginning of the worlds, is fascinating. I am definitely going to read the prequel and recommend Stacy McWilliam's books to readers who are not afraid to delve into the dark worlds of our existence.