Lightning Rider
Jen Greyson
Romance/Paranormal
May, 2013/The Writer's Coffee shop
Smith Publicity

Evy Rivera is not your typical woman. She owns a business of welding art, rides a motorbike and strongly defends herself in life. But when her current boyfriend takes Evy for everything, furniture included, Evy moves home to live again with her father.

Just before moving home again, Evy has begun to notice that lightning affects her - sparks fly from her fingers when a storm moves in. Furthermore, she discovers an old book that her grandfather owned, that helps explain. Evy's family are lightning riders - and can travel thru time, changing events in history.

Playing with her newly discovered talent, Evy finds herself suddenly back in ancient Spain. While there Evy meets Constantine, and feels an instant attraction. A woman, Penya, whom Evy meets in past time, informs Evy that a woman will change the world.

Travelling back and forth thru time, Evy discovers the complications of time travel, and learns that she is the first and only female lightning rider.

Trying to protect her father, help Constantine change history and deal with her unexpected romantic feelings, Evy works to develop her new talent, and change the world.

Lightning Rider is a fabulous read!!! Filled with adventure, action and love, Jen Greyson's new book is a delight to read and share with friends. ( )

Evy Rivera just came out of a very bad relationship which has left her apartment and her bank account empty. Though Evy feels very upset about this, she doesn't realize that her life is about to get a lot more complicated. When her father discovers a box containing a book which once belonged to his father, Evy has no inkling that her curiosity about her family history is going to force her to embrace her birthright as the only female lightening rider to ever live.

As you might well imagine traveling back through time and changing what happened is not an easy thing to do. This is why each rider is given a guide but how does Evy know that just trust them. They know more about what Evy is than she does and they are not always willing to answer questions. Evy knows that Ilif Rotiart's feelings about women means that he is not interested in her.

I was surprised to see that Lightning Rider was placed under the category of paranormal romance. Don't get me wrong, there is a romance in the book but the story itself is not dependent upon the romance to exist. We did however get the whole star crossed lovers deal because Evy's love interest Constantine is an ancient roman.

One of the things I liked about this story is that Evy the protagonist is a Latina and unlike many novels in this genre, she is not Latina in name only. Greyson includes some dialogue in Spanish and we get a strong sense of culture for her. While Evy comes from a family of Lightning Riders, Evy's culture is not to blame for her magic, which again is rare. We do once again get the chosen one meme as Evy's birth and skill is foretold in legend but rarely do we see in this genre this trope applied to a WOC.


Read More ( )