Book Review: Omens

Omens (Cainsville #1) by Kelley Armstrong

#1 New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong begins her new series with Omens, featuring a compelling new heroine thrust into a decades-old murder case and the dark mysteries surrounding her strange new home.

Twenty-four-year-old Olivia Taylor Jones has the perfect life. The only daughter of a wealthy, prominent Chicago family, she has an Ivy League education, pursues volunteerism and philanthropy, and is engaged to a handsome young tech firm CEO with political ambitions.

But Olivia’s world is shattered when she learns that she’s adopted. Her real parents? Todd and Pamela Larsen, notorious serial killers serving a life sentence. When the news brings a maelstrom of unwanted publicity to her adopted family and fiancé, Olivia decides to find out the truth about the Larsens.

Olivia ends up in the small town of Cainsville, Illinois, an old and cloistered community that takes a particular interest in both Olivia and her efforts to uncover her birth parents’ past.

Aided by her mother’s former lawyer, Gabriel Walsh, Olivia focuses on the Larsens’ last crime, the one her birth mother swears will prove their innocence. But as she and Gabriel start investigating the case, Olivia finds herself drawing on abilities that have remained hidden since her childhood, gifts that make her both a valuable addition to Cainsville and deeply vulnerable to unknown enemies. Because there are darker secrets behind her new home and powers lurking in the shadows that have their own plans for her.

Hardcover, 486 pages

Published August 20th 2013 by Dutton Adult

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Review

What do you do when you find out you're not who you thought you were, but instead finding out that you are from another family with a dark past.

 

Olivia's life was as perfect as it can be, she had the finances, the guy and the family name but her world is turned upsides down when a dark secret is revealed . . . Olivia isn't Olivia.

 

So who is she? How can she handle being labeled as a Serial Killers offspring?

 

Having to disappear off the radar seems like a good idea until realisation struck, Olivia was on her own . . . In order to find out who she really is traveling to a small town outside of Chicago.

 

Soon the small population of Cainsville just might help her, figure out the mystery.

 

This is really beyond a five Cat Tails up, this is more a bundle of kittens just waiting to gain your attention. I've never read anything by Kelley but truthfully sometimes waiting always makes it worth the read and enjoyment. This Mystery/Suspense has you believing in the superstition/unsuperstition and will Olivia be able to figure out who's she really is?

 

Meow . . . Meow . . . Meow

Wow I've never read anything by Kelley and boy I am going to spend the rest of my life trying to fix that problem however when I heard about OMENS I was immediately drawn. The plot about Omens sounded like nothing I've ever read.

We meet Olivia, the girl who has it all until a secret is revealed to society and now everyone wants to know . . . What's it like to be the offspring of two serial killers?
Stunned, shocked and perhaps even a little scared what could Olivia do? She never like the media and now media has a reason to have all eyes on her. So Olivia only choice is to go off radar . . .

I'm always been curious about going off the radar, using a new identity if I had to . . . Would I redefine myself or just stay hidden until things get blown over? I have no idea.

Now for Olivia she made sure her identity is in fact Olivia and not her given name but now she has to follow the trail of dead people, ghosts and watch the signs of Omens, can she clear her biological parents name or is all hope lost?

She may or may not want to work with Gabriel the sleek lawyer who was her mother defense attorney and her mother warns him to not be ripping off her daughter fortune and she tells Olivia to be wary about him.

Searching for clues and becoming very super superstition about Cainsville, everything Olivia never grew up around somehow feels familiar during the time she was with her biological parents. Can Gabriel and Olivia figure it out before it too late and they are too close to the answer?