Tour: The Healer ~ C.J. Anaya

 

• The Healer
• by C.J. Anaya
• Release Date:  07/11/15
• 272 pages

Hope Fairmont is a normal teenage girl. She attends public school, gets good grades, has a normal best friend…sort of normal…and works as a janitor at the local hospital. Unfortunately, that’s where the ruse ends. Oh, sure, she might be tidying up hospital rooms here and there, but Hope is also using a gift she hides from everyone in order to heal any patients who might need her, which, in her mind is everyone.
She and her father may have been able to keep her healing gift a secret for most of her life, but there are others out there who know who Hope really is and what her gift for healing is truly meant to accomplish. Hope’s life spirals out of control when two, handsome young men mysteriously appear, claiming they must protect her from a demon god determined to end her life before she can fulfill her destiny.

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 Review

I have to say that I really enjoyed this book. It has a pretty unique story-line that kind of grabbed my attention right away. It focuses on this seemingly normal girl who has this extraordinary gift of healing. I think it was this healing gift that first turned me onto this book. I feel like the characters that have this healing power follow a general outline that I really like to read about, and The Healer did not disappoint. Throughout the book C.J. Anaya presented a unique character and a unique situation rather well. 

Hope was a pretty interesting character. At time she was kind of generic but it was mostly because of the whole "I want this guy but I'm not willing to go after him" situation. One thing that really caught my eye was her interactions with patients at the hospital. I felt like these were some of the best parts of the book because they showed Hope's true character and even her struggle with her gift. Now comes in her two mysterious young "protectors". 

I have to say that I found their interactions pretty amusing. Hop struggled against her own attraction to one of these protectors yet is supposed to like the other own just a little bit more. I found that their relationships between the three were really interesting and I wished the book was a little longer so that they would develop more fully.

While the book was really good, I do wish the book was a little longer. I felt like this book was more of a introduction to the major plot problem than the first book in the series. Yet even with this critique, this book definitely had a lot going on with it and I really liked what I read. 

 

 

About the Author

C. J. Anaya began writing short stories for family and friends when she was thirteen years old. This soon morphed into an extensive project every year during Christmas as a way to create a fun and inexpensive Christmas gift.
Her passion for reading and writing led her to following her own dreams of becoming a published author. She was born in Utah and raised everywhere else. She even lived a few years in Brazil, enjoying the people, the culture and learning the beautiful language of Portuguese; a language she is still fluent in to this day. As a result of her exposure to varying peoples and cultures, her interests became varied as well.
As a mother of four children she is now a singer and a songwriter, a baker and a cake decorator, a dancer and a choreographer, a girl with a degree in Criminal Justice and a first time published author of YA paranormal romance and fantasy. She is also married to the most deliciously, handsome looking Latino. As always, she has plenty to write about.

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