Regen by Cassie Greutman
Publisher: Greutman Media
Genre: Contemporary, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Length: Full length (326 pages)
Age Recommendation: 16+
Rating: 3.5 stars
Review by: OrchidLife is finally shaping up for Trisha. For the first time, she’s with a foster family she doesn’t hate. Her new school is decent, and she even has a boyfriend. Until the night she finds herself waking up in the woods covered in blood, a bullet hole in her dress. Without her fae abilities, she’d be dead, but now the Faerie Council has given her an ultimatum. She has to help find an escaped fugitive, or be taken to Faerie, a place her missing mother told her horror stories about. Now, Trish has to keep her day job a secret from her foster parents, join forces with the ex-boyfriend who killed her, and hunt down a dangerous criminal before he comes into his powers. Should be a piece of cake.
Trisha has been abandoned by her mother and gone through a multitude of foster homes – and she actually likes her latest foster parents. Her dark secret is that she is a fae and part of being fae means she heals really quickly, although now she has been killed. To her surprise she regenerates. I presume this is where the title of the book comes from, although it is not very clear at first.
The book is reasonably written and the story flows well although there are a few unbelievable events when her foster parents read her the riot act, then give in without a murmur. The ending left a lot of loose ends which I found very irritating. The idea is a good one, but it did not go deep enough or follow through on hints about her past which makes it an incomplete story.
I liked the theme of the story, quest to find a criminal; only Trisha can help; several false leads. On the whole, it was pleasant read and quite a good story.