Great series!!!!

I waited to write this review after I finished the entire series. Just like other reviewers mentioned, I was unsure if I would like this series from the start. I don't particular like thinking about evil and its forces in our world. However, this series was well written. Don't stop reading!! As far as my kids are concerned, I probably will want them to be older teens before reading it. Solid in their own beliefs and able to discuss the topics brought up. Overall I loved the story and characters and highly recommend it. ( )

Thrilled to have the final installment... but lamenting the fact that this AMAZING series is over!


WOW! How do I review this book without giving anything away...?

How can I go back and read it all over again – for the first time!

How do I even begin to tell you what this book meant to me... what this series meant to me?

K.E. Ganshert is an incredibly, amazingly, beautifully gifted author. She writes stories in a way that makes you feel as if you're living them. She writes worlds as if there is no other. She writes characters in such a way that it feels as though you're reading yourself. You slip into the character's skin as easily as you slip into a pool of water. I fully expect to look up and see Rosie sitting across from me with those puppy-dog eyes, begging for the rest of my dinner.

But the best thing about this series... Unlike many YA dystopian, speculative and supernatural novels on the market today - it does not erase hope. It does not give us a bleak outlook of a world where we have to lose almost everything to win, or a world where only by stripping us down to almost nothing - can we survive.

The Gifting series GIVES us hope! It gives us hope for tomorrow... hope for today... hope for forever.

I do not recommend many of the YA series that are so popular today but I feel very strongly that this is a series EVERYONE should read!

And by the way... I receive a lot of books free in exchange for an honest review. Not this one - this was a book I purchased. Actually it was pre-ordered for me by my AWESOME mom, because I was so frantic to read it ASAP – which you can see... I have done! ( )