WRIT ON WATER

Author: Melanie Jackson ISBN: 0505527049 3/2007 PARANORMAL Publisher: DORCHESTER

He ne'er is crowned with immortality who fears to follow where airy voices lead. But Chloe wasn't hearing voices: she was having visions. Troops of bloodred Adonis flowers gone feral: a monument of dark granite that seemed more gargoyle than angel, moving and writhing and threatening: these were visions of her upcoming assignment to photograph tombs in Virginia. She had the Sight, just like her Gran, the witch. But Gran hadn’t taught her anything about her gift, and Chloe was at a loss. The horrible things she saw: what did they mean and were they real? Could she stop them? She was in a new place with no allies—at least, none that she knew. MacGregor Patrick was charming, but was his kindly nature a charade? His son Rory was handsome as sin, but angelic features could hide diabolic intent. And the rest of Riverview, Virginia—there is no one she could trust, and her enemies wished her dead, vanished, her name…Writ on Water.

RRAH's THOUGHTS AND PONDERINGS:

Despite all its wordiness and boring descriptions of moss, I like WRIT ON WATER anyway. It's different. Truly, that is the best way to describe it. The flow, the plot(s), romance and characters, are all described and operate in a completely different manner than anything else I have read.

Okay, so the fiendish part of the plot really, well, isn't much of anything but supposition, but the romance and the strangeness of the setting are quite intriguing and make up for that. But what gets me most is the wording. There is a weird flow to it, with even weirder descriptions, but it's oddly beautiful that way.

Though it's billed as a paranormal, I don't consider it one. The heroine has the "Sight" and a main character talks to his dead wife, but there just isn't a lot of what I consider to be paranormal activity in it. Actually, aside from a lot of it taking place in a cemetery, and the heroine having premonitions in her dreams, it's not ghoulish in the least. What it is, though, is a stand alone work that gave me a break from the ordinary.

Shannon Johnson