Reviewed by Becca

TITLE: Vision Quest

AUTHOR: Kelly Wyre & A.F. Henley

PUBLISHER: JMS Books LLC

LENGTH: 200 pages

RELEASE DATE: October 2, 2019

BLURB:

When Arik Beltrán checks into a hotel on business, he expects the tedium of unfamiliar beds and boring meetings. He expects to meet a financial client and be home before the solitude of being a stranger in a mundane land becomes too much to bear.

Instead Arik finds Blaze: a mysterious man with an inner fire that lives up to the name. Nothing in Arik’s life, not his deranged father nor even his faint brushes with the magic only Arik can see in the woven web of life could have prepared Arik for the man in the hotel lobby who casually invites Arik to room 1109 for late night … Well, anything at all.

Blaze Zaituc, on the other hand, knows exactly who Arik is and what Arik needs: Blaze. He has crossed land and sea to find the man who has appeared in Blaze’s Visions as the next target in the Quest that comprises Blaze’s life. Arik is someone for whom the Universe has plans, and Blaze must make sure Arik complies. Or else.

Unaware of the lives and risks hanging in the balance, Arik untangles himself from the sheets in the silent hours of the morning. He wonders if he will find the door to 1109 open and waiting. He’s not a risk taker, but this one time, just this once, maybe he’ll take a chance …

And seal both his and Blaze’s destinies forever.

REVIEW:

Ok. So, I’m still at a loss with this one. I have to give it 4 because overall, the writing is good. It’s a good plot and such, but there were times when I didn’t quite get what was being portrayed. And it’s probably just me. But at times some of the writing was just off for me. And trying to figure it out left me more confused. 

The gist of it is, Blaze has been cursed for over 300 years by a witch from when he was in Romania. He has visions that take him on quests now to help people he’s sent to. Some are good. Some are bad. His latest quest has led him Arik. What happens between Blaze and Arik though, is mysterious and magical. There is a spark that lights them up when together, and Arik is seeing things himself. They are trying to work through each and every thing they are dealing with but some of it is hard to stomach and leaves Arik a bit off. He overcomes it, if for nothing else, then for Blaze, because he’s starting to realize the true hell Blaze has been living. And Blaze deserves some good in his life. But little by little, Arik is starting to put the pieces together on how to finally free Blaze from his curse and it starts happening at the meeting of a man he was supposed to meet earlier in the week. Everything has to happen in it’s own time. But surviving it may be another matter.

I don’t know who I felt for the most, Arik or Blaze. The sheer magnitude of what Blaze has been through alone, is enough to make anyone want to run screaming. But what Arik is seeing is just as horrid. And after seeing the things he’s seen growing up, it’s a tossup at who to feel worse for. Blaze obviously, since he’s been cursed. But it’s still pure horror at what they have faced and are about to face. Their lives have been lined up for a reason. Whether fate, curse or what, they are now intertwined and that bond is not letting go. But because of what they are dealing with, it’s a blessing and a curse. Irony is cruel. But no matter how many times Blaze tried to find a way out, Arik wasn’t giving up. Blaze didn’t want to give up either, but he didn’t want Arik to deal with everything he had to and then know if they got to stay together, Arik would die and Blaze would not. So, it was tough decisions all around. Very hard on both of them. 

Like I said, overall, it’s a pretty good book. I just felt off at certain times, but again, it is probably me. Give it a chance and see what you think.

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