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Omens (Cainsville, #1)

Kelley Armstrong

Start date: October 1, 2013

Finish date: October 31, 2013

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Dec 06, 2013 Katyana rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: uf, fantasy

Really liked this... fantastic start to a new series, and I can't wait for the next one.

Re-read Nov 2017
I'm not sure why this series fell by the wayside, because I really did enjoy the first. But I tripped over it and decided to re-read the first as a refresher, and then push onward. And I'm so glad I did, because I really did love this book.

Olivia/Eden is a great heroine. She may be a little naive about money, but really, she's self-aware enough to realize that... and when her whole world is ro Really liked this... fantastic start to a new series, and I can't wait for the next one.

Re-read Nov 2017
I'm not sure why this series fell by the wayside, because I really did enjoy the first. But I tripped over it and decided to re-read the first as a refresher, and then push onward. And I'm so glad I did, because I really did love this book.

Olivia/Eden is a great heroine. She may be a little naive about money, but really, she's self-aware enough to realize that... and when her whole world is rocked, she decides that she needs to strip a lot of things away for a bit, and try and find herself. That sounds overly self-help, and I don't mean it that way, because there's no self-help angst going on here. She's just... overwhelmed and confused. And the horrid way the people in Olivia's life treat her - from her disappointment of a mother to her self-absorbed fiancee - underscore that she needs some time away in order to figure things out.

Even better, she does all this without being a moron. She understands when she starts doing something dangerous, and she takes intelligent precautions. She keeps her mind open to possibilities. She knows that she needs to stay as unbiased, regarding her birth parents, as possible - it's too easy to fall into the trap of believing they are innocent because she wants them to be, and she constantly polices herself about that.

She's honestly just fabulous.

The town of Cainsville is also intriguing, and I'm excited to see what's behind all the teases we've gotten.

Gabriel is an interesting character. I can't label him the hero, and I'm not even honestly sure that I want him to be. He's a bit of a sociopath, honestly. Other people's feelings don't even occur to him, and when Olivia/Eden gets (quite fairly) pissed about him when he does something shitty, he seems to honestly be unable to see why she would/should be upset. So I don't know that I want him to be the hero/love interest... but he does make an interesting partner. So again, I'm excited to see what happens.

Re-read September 2025
When reorganizing my Kindle, I came across this series. It's been so long since I read it that it wasn't even vaguely familiar ... I think I read too much (not that I think there's any such thing) and so older stories kind of blend together in my brain. But I looked it up on GR and saw that I loved it, loved the whole series, so I jumped into a re-read.

And I'm glad I did. I don't disagree with a single part of my review. It was pretty wonderful, a unique blend of magic, science, mystery, thriller. And having finished this re-read, I still only have vague wisps of memories of the story (I certainly didn't remember how the mystery of this first book played out), so it's kind of like a first read all over again. Yay! ...more

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Aug 30, 2013 Paula Phillips rated it liked it

This book has been sitting on my wishlist as I am a big Kelley Armstrong fan and have read everything by her, so when it came in the new books at the library I just knew I had to read it. Even more was the fact that I got the cover in the middle, it held a creepy feeling - almost like a Stephen King novel type cover . This excited me and I just couldn't wait to get stuck into the novel. Omens started out great with Olivia Taylor-Jones discovering she was adopted and that her birth parents are Am ...more

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