Here is the blurb from Goodreads:
"Felicia, Lizbeth Rose’s half-sister and a student at the Grigori Rasputin school in San Diego—capital of the Holy Russian Empire—is caught between her own secrets and powerful family struggles. As a granddaughter of Rasputin, she provides an essential service to the hemophiliac Tsar Alexei, providing him the blood transfusions that keep him alive. Felicia is treated like a nonentity at the bedside of the tsar, and at the school she's seen as a charity case with no magical ability. But when Felicia is snatched outside the school, the facts of her heritage begin to surface. Felicia turns out to be far more than the Russian-Mexican Lizbeth rescued. As Felicia’s history unravels and her true abilities become known, she becomes under attack from all directions. Only her courage will keep her alive."
When I heard that the next book in the Gunnie Rose series was going to be about Felicia, I was delighted because that meant Lizbeth got to keep her HEA with Eli, and all of us readers got to read more in this world.
This book was on the shorter side, I devoured it, I really enjoy Felicia and her inner monologue. She is clever and I felt that as written she acted her age. I think Charlaine got this unusual teenager's thoughts correct. The reveals as the mystery goes along works and the unveiling of Felicia's background and her abilities as a mage seem reasonable. The blurg says that only her courage will keep her alive, but I disagree, I say it's her cunning and her years of experience living on the edge in Mexico that keep her alive.
The support cast is pretty big in this first book of Felicia's but if you have read other books in the series it's easy to keep them straight. It may be more difficult if you start the books with this one. The ending is satisfying, we get resolution to the immediate troubles of the day as well as a better understand of Felicia and her extended family. Threads are there for other books and I look forward to spending time with her again.
5 Stars. Eagerly Anticipating Next Book
