Book Review: Pandora's Key by Nancy Richardson Fischer

Title: Pandora's Key
Author: Nancy Richardson Fischer
Publisher: self-published
Released On: November 18, 2011
Source: E-book from author :)
My rating: 

When everything you believed about yourself is a lie, how do you unlock the truth… Evangeline Theopolis has nightmares about the violent deaths of women she has never met. Her single mother, Olivia, suffers delusions she can’t hide. And Malledy, a brilliant young man, may have a disease that will leave him paralyzed and insane. Their lives are about to collide. On Evangeline’s 16th birthday her mother gives her a necklace with an antique key charm—a family heirloom, though no one knows what the key unlocks. Everything changes. Her mom is hospitalized. Her godmother attempts murder. An ancient Order tries to kill Evangeline, and a lethal sect to kidnap her. Nothing makes sense—especially Evangeline’s own face, which has morphed from geeky to eerily stunning; the ancient key that feels strangely alive against her skin; and the magical abilities she begins to possess. Evangeline must use her wits and supernatural powers to fight her deadly adversaries and discover her true identity. But can she accept who she really is and save the world? My Thoughts: The main reason I agreed to read this book was because of the good reviews it got.not tomention that I like stories with Greek mythologies on it. Pandora's key had an original and unique plot. Narrating from different POV's was a nice approach to making it a 3rd POV. I dindnt exactly love loved the story but I kinda liked it, on a certain level. 

My Thoughts:

I have to say it’s rare to find good reads from self-published books. But when the author, Nancy Fischer asked me to review her book, I checked out the reviews she referred me too and found out lots of good reviews, so I agreed to read it and I didn’t regret it one bit.:)

In the first place, I was curious to know how the author played the Greek Mythology in the book, and I love modern retellings of this Greek myths. This is also the first time I read of something from Pandora. The story building was good. The twists were thrilling and compelling. I continued reading on because of the story captivated me and I just had to know what will happen next. I made a lot of guesses for the mysteries, andI got some of them right but they were still pretty good and there were some pretty shocking revelations. The main character, Evangeline, had the most changed personality in the book, with only a span of a few days, she grew up. (who wouldn’t if faced with tough choices as she did?)

However, I also think the book needs further editing for typos and the strings and transitions of words, semtences and paragraphs were not that coherent. The pacing was fast but appropriate. There were some parts of the story that were too impossible to happen even if it’s in fiction, like it was impossibly fast that in the end, Evangeline easily swallowed her pride and believed everything they told her of, and sometimes there were too much things going on at the same time that it’s rather confusing.

Still, overall, I liked the novel. And I would like to find out what will happen next on the series :)

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