Book Review: White Aura

Title:  The White Aura
Author:  Felicia Tatum
Pages:  203
Publication Date:  2014
Version:  Kindle 
Genre:  Young Adult Fiction Paranormal/Urban Fantasy

Summary Via Goodreads.com:
"How do you live with the gut clenching truth that the one you love will die if you meet them? Twenty year old sorcerer Scott Tabors is learning how. After seeing seventeen year old Olivia Whitehead outside of a coffee shop, his heart will never be the same. He longs for her, he wants her, and he knows she will be his. They are heart mates. …but due to a curse on his family, he can’t meet her. Not yet. So for now, he visits her in her dreams. Her dreams where he can tell her everything but his name.

Olivia Whitehead is a typical junior in high school. She and her best friend are having the time of their lives, but she can’t help but notice the changes happening to her. Especially the changes in her heart after she begins dreaming about a mysterious dark haired young man. But what will happen when the school heartthrob decides he wants Olivia? Will she realize the dream man is real or will she move on?"

My Review:
Scott is a sorcerer who has finally found his heart mate...bad news about this is that his family has a curse on it that if he has any contact with her before her seventeenth and six month age date she will die.  He helps himself with the longing he feels to be with her by dream walking.  He visits her in her dreams and somehow she just knows they are real and she is falling for this literal man of her dreams.  He can talk to her and can be close to her this way, but she is not to know his name.  
Olivia is in high school and is beginning to think she is losing her darn mind.  She is falling in love with the man of her dreams, literally a man she only has dreamed of, but knows somehow is real.  Her parents have been acting especially strange lately, but won't talk to her about any of it.  She is being hit on by the hottest boy in school, but she just feels something is wrong with him and she really has a deeper love for Mr. Sexy, the man she dreams of at night.  Soon her life is in danger and Scott decides that if he doesn't help her she will die.  So Scott, another sorcerer, and Scott's family members decide to do something to help Olivia and her friend Juniper.  Soon things take a horrid turn and they are all fighting for their lives.  Can they help and save Olivia in time?  What will happen when, in the heat of battle, Scott sees Olivia in person?  What is so special about Olivia that someone would do anything to have her?  

This was a really great read, but I was a bit disappointed in the ending of the book.  I know it was written the way it was because it has continuations in the next book(s), but I still felt it could have had a bit better ending.  I am a series lover, but I like the books to have some sort of closure to them, not leave me thinking I skipped the last part of the book.  The characters in this book are ones to love more and more with every word you read of the book.  Watching Olivia and Scott develop and develop their love was really an amazing touch to the story, especially because they developed their love without even seeing each other in person.  The plot was great and was very interesting to read.  The writing was done so well that I could vividly see the action while reading.  I could see Olivia, Scott, Juniper, Mark, and all the other great characters come to life as I read.  I could feel their emotions as I got to know them better and see what they were going through.  They were easy characters to relate to if you have ever been a teenager or if you are one.  The magical twist added the sizzle to the whole concept!  I really did enjoy this book and will more than likely pick up the next book in the series because of how this book ended, which I am sure was the intent, but I still say the ending to this book could have had a bit more closure of some kind to it.  However, like I said, it accomplished what it was supposed to...I will be picking up the next book in the series because I can't simply leave it like it ended, I have to find out certain things that will just bother the heck out of me if I don't continue reading on.  

4/5 Stars!