Despite what Mary Margaret Underwood thinks, she isn't your average high school student standing 5'10" with tiger gold eyes and a talent for going unnoticed. But when one more of her mom's bad breakups force them to flee town and start over Mary senses something different about this place, particularly one of her new classmates, Kelson. Well Mary's intuition proves right when her mom is suddenly kidnapped by Kelson in a flash of blue. Running on pure adrenaline Mary instinctively performs magic she, until moments before, never believed existed. Following after her mom to a world she knows nothing of.
Flecks of Gold is the book review, books, Flecks of Gold, Young-Adultfirst novel from the pen of Alicia Buck, and after reading it I am certain she struck gold with this debut. Magic, adventure, and even a little romance fill the pages to create this imaginatively original coming of age tale. Buck placed a fresh outlook on the concept of magic, making its existence believable by portraying its elements similar to molecular structure.
Flecks of Gold was so fun to read, not to mention captivating. My one complaint was that Mary often didn't seem to pick up on things that were obvious to me as a reader. Apparently she did, but she doesn't let the reader didn't know this until much later in the book. Maybe the mentions were removed during the editing process? Despite that I found myself not wanting to put the book down and flew though it in two days. Now I have been left wanting more. I can't wait to see what is yet to come from the creative mind of Alicia Buck.
*You can buy Flecks of Gold by Alicia Buck online at Amazon.com*
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