First of all this is a very long book, and the beginning I found to be very slow. It starts out with the heroine, Emma Elliott being killed in an accident, and suddenly found in a very mist covered version of London. Emma is approached by Father Eamon who does his best to explain to her that she is dead and she must accept that fact and come with him to the Sanctuary. (All of this is then explained during their long walk). In the Sanctuary, she even meets friends she’d known but had lost contact with over the years.

Fr. Eamon explains to Emma that she is in-between planes; he is her guardian; and she has a quest she must complete to decide which way she could spend her future in (think good vs. bad). What Fr.Eamon doesn’t explain to Emma, until much later in the book, is that she is a very special person who could definite the world in a big way. While working to complete her task – after so many forays out of the Sanctuary to complete this mission Emma couldn’t help but notice people staring at her and some even frightened by her! It takes some time though before she discovers the reason as to just how special she actually is.

What was interesting was how she could cross the planes from being noticed in that misty plane to the present day where people could walk through and not see her. As the book progresses she learns more things which only lead to more and more questions and Fr. Eamon didn’t seem too keen on giving Emma all the answers.

The character of Emma was okay, but I never got that warm fuzzy feel I generally get with a lead character I really like. It’s possible that the slower pace of this book was a bit of a turn off, and some of the relatively graphic descriptions of some of the monsters and plague victims were really not to my taste. Unfortunately, I found this tome very hard to get through. The ending was very good, but let me just say I was happy to get through it.

Bottom line: Writing was very good, it just wasn’t my cuppa and the slowness and long length made it tough to finish.

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