Vanessa really wants to be normal, but she has a secret that she can only share with her best friend Catty. The secret is she can make herself invisible. She is not really sure how or why, but at times in her life when she is under extreme emotion, she disappears. Catty has a secret, too. She can travel back in time, and while Catty experiments with her ability. Vanessa wishes it would go away, but it won't and it is becoming a big problem because every time the love of her life, Michael Saratoga, kisses her... she starts to disappear. You can see how this would be a problem.
In addition to this problem, Vanessa is getting the overwhelming feeling that she is being watched. Catty wants to travel back in time to track this mysterious person, but Vanessa is not so sure about that. It is not until Catty disappears that Vanessa knows she must act.
In enters Serena and Jimena two other girls Vanessa's age that live in the Los Angeles area, and it turns out they have powers also. Serena reads minds, and Jimena has premonitions. These two girls introduce Vanessa to Maggie (the moon goddess mentor of sorts) who begings to teach the girls about the moon goddess who has given them their powers. She also warns them of evil of the Followers and Atrox and the impending show down.
Soon the girls figure out that it is the Followers/ Atrox that have Catty, and Vanessa is willing to do whatever it takes to free her. Even if it means going against the advice of her new friends and Maggie. She just hopes that her powers are strong enough to free Catty.
The cool thing about this series is that each of the books is told from a different character's point of view, so while in this one Vanessa is the main focus, Jimena narrates the next book. The books are about 300 pages and have incredible cool covers. Definitely a fantasy story, but what makes it fantasy is the powers that each of the girls have. It is a classic battle of good vs evil, and in a weird remote way it reminded me of the tv show Charmed... but they are not witches here. Just high school girls trying to be normal. This could very easily be a tv series.
Have you read this book? What did you think? Have you read any of the others in this series? Leave a comment.
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