Prophecy

Binding Elements #2

by Lynn Peters

The Saga Continues...
Lucas and Aurora begin the search for two of the most treacherous people of their kind. The search takes them to China, where their best friend Kyle has a surprise waiting for them. They finally got to spend their first Christmas together in five hundred years. Will they get to celebrate a second one?

They were banished…
They came from the Wind and Lightning Families. Together they were two of the most powerful of their kind and for their reckless use of power, they were banished. Eight centuries later, Shane and Alexis are close to their goal and step up their search for the Flute of Life, a mythological artifact said to have belonged to one of the Eight Immortals and capable of giving life to crops and plants. If they can find it, the world would be theirs. They suspect Lucas and Aurora are on to them and hatch a plan of poison to stop them.

Surprises and shocks await…
An accident, in which they nearly lose their lives, brings about the discovery of a prophecy, buried in the ancient books of the Elemental People. Lucas and Aurora realize their fate is set and the only way to survive is to embrace it. Shocking power will be unleashed and no one is safe. From a home in the country to the Forbidden City and finally to the Great Wall itself, they’re in a race to save themselves and their friends from destruction.

Unknown Binding

First published May 18, 2015

Reviews

[Gypsy Madden · Rating 4 out of 5]

Though I absolutely adored the first installment of this series, I wasn’t as wild about this installment. It felt a little too much like the author was trying to answer the question of what happens to the characters next and making a checklist of it, and what she wanted for the characters so there were a lot of slow scenes with the characters in love, spending time as a family, and just having leisurely moments of relaxing together. I waited and waited for the momentum of the story to pick up and for there to be a root problem for them to solve, however this installment started with Lucas and Aurora taking the offensive and trying to find Shane and Alexis for revenge against what they did to Aaron (which is dark for the heroes and sheds a rather negative light on them). The fight club scene just felt randomly added in for no good reason. I take it that it was supposed to be showing how tough Jason was, but his background as practically a Mission Impossible-style agent already shows that enough. I thought that his opponent might be Shane, but nothing actually tied back to the fight club to say yes. Not to mention that it was the only time they went to the fight club, which felt odd for it being an important part in his life, so he claimed. Shane and Alexis seemed rather one note, typical moustache twirling evil through and through villains. Alexis did show signs of having a bit of a conscience, but by the second half of the book, that had disappeared so that she seemed just as bad as her husband. All the good guys in this seemed rather interchangeable in their personalities with just their names to differentiate them. One of the main problems with this was that Alexis and Shane really kept to themselves and didn’t bother the heroes through most of the book, so it didn’t really feel like they were much of a threat (other than wanting to be rid of the heroes eventually). And they are typical villains, so there’s no real tension compared to the first book which was heart-wrenching with not knowing who to trust, and would Aurora kill Lucas or realize her love trumped any hate she had for him and would they find out the truth or not. And not to mention the unknown darkness that loomed, waiting to strike at Aurora at any given moment. Sadly, this installment didn’t sell me on continuing the series.