Review: LS: Deception by Kelvin O'Ralph
December 19, 2011
Title: LS: Deception
Series: LS Series
Author: Kelvin O'Ralph
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Category: Young Adult
Book Summary
Lisa and Stephen are back together as a new school year kicks off. This time, they're much stronger than they've ever been, plus their love life has moved to a higher level. Everything seems perfect as they learn about Lisa's new abilities, until Lisa's father, Ben Morgan is attacked while receiving an award.
In this installment of LS, the two lovers face what seems to be their greatest challenge. As they uncover the mystery behind the attacks on their lives, they are left to make a final decision. It's time to fight back.
Favorite Quote from the Book
"You've showed me what it means to be loved. I didn't think I'd ever find someone like you, at least not in this life time..."
- aww, my heart would have melted if a guy said those lines to me!
My Thoughts
LS: Deception, the second installment in the LS Series by Kelvin O’Ralph, is certainly everything I expect a sequel should be. Deception quite answered all my initial questions that I had in mind after reading The Beginning, though not entirely. There are still so many things that both baffled and fascinated me in Deception and I’m guessing that the final installment will have all the answers to the mysteries surrounding the main characters, Lisa and Stephen.
Allow me to begin by saying that Kelvin’s writing had tremendously improved in this second book. Reading Deception was actually much smoother and pleasant than reading The Beginning. I even couldn’t remember feeling annoyed by unpolished and amateurish narration, as I have felt when reading The Beginning. It was as if the author had finally find his rhythm and style, stepped out of his comfort zone and delivered the story that is truly worth reading. As a result, Deception came out so well-put together and jam-packed with more thrills, action, romance and not forgets to mention, tragedy. Yes, there’s tragedy in Deception as well, an added feature that completed the concoction. And with tragedy, came the revelation too. In my first review of the first book, I mentioned a few questions that popped into my head about the characters’ origin, particularly how and from where they get their power. Well, at the end of the second book, Stephen’s origin is vaguely revealed while Lisa’s is still remained a mystery though I probably don’t necessarily like how the author had built the two characters’ true identity. I could feel that Lisa and Stephen are like some sort of aliens (ala Superman from the planet Krypton) who came down to earth and live like an ordinary human. I’m no fan of alien, unfortunately. Nonetheless, I truly admired how Lisa and Stephen complemented each other as two souls deeply in love. Seriously, I was jealous with Lisa all through the way.
Other than that, Deception has additional characters which I liked because additional characters in any series could bring out more drama and conflict. However, in the case of this book, I was hoping for male characters instead of female as most of the time, Stephen is surrounded by females. I was often left wondering how Stephen deals with all the hormones around him as I have never encountered a male character with so many females in his life in any books. That’s the reason why in my opinion, I thought Stephen is actually in desperate need of a male best-friend. A little testosterone wouldn't spoil everything. Besides, I’d like to see balance and variety in characters’ line-up.
My Thoughts in Brief – The Conclusion
Deception have yet blew me away, though it was loaded it action including a dose of Fast and Furious scene in one chapter. I wasn’t really sure about the whole alien concept of this book, which I found strangely comedic instead of intriguing but I do anticipate the last installment, The Final Battle and find out what’s become of Lisa and Stephen.
Bornean Bookworm rates:
4 stars out of 5!
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*Review copy won at LibraryThing Giveaway
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