Defiance

Title: Defiance

Author: Shelly Crane

Publisher: Shelly Crane

Publish Date: 8 March 2012

Pages: 281

ISBN: 978-1475009866

Source: bought

Genre: Young adult, paranormal, romance

Series: Significance

Other books in series: Significance, Accordance

Rating: Liked

In the third installment of the Significance series, we begin with Maggie and Caleb in the clutches of a new enemy; the Virtuoso Council. Not only do they have to deal with the consequences of taking the lives of the Watsons and the council attempting to take Maggie away to keep their precious Visionary safe, but they must deal with Marla as well. All are determined to undermine, control and use Caleb and Maggie's rare gifts for their own uses, some wish to destroy them entirely. Then Maggie's father and Bish are threatened but the council forbids the presense of humans. Peter and the family fight and stand beside them every step of the way to save Maggie's father, to keep Caleb and Maggie together when the corrupted council is so set on keeping them apart and to stop Marla and whatever she has up her sleeve. Then Maggie has the shock of her life when she discovers something about her real father. It may change everything for everyone. Stay tuned as the story continues.

Are things finally going to go well for Caleb and Maggie?  What is this Virtuoso council that she has to go to?  In Accordance, you learned that Maggie was the Visionary.  She is expected to attend the Virtuoso Council with the rest of the Jacobson clan.  When she gets there, things don’t go as well as she thought they would.  Someone is out to get her.  There are rules meant to keep her and Caleb apart and her isolated from the rest of the clan.  Her father and Bish don’t fare well either as they are human and not allowed to attend the council.  Maggie learns what has happened to Visionaries of the past and does not like what they had to go through.

What is the motive behind all the things that are happening at council?  Will Maggie and Caleb be together without any problems?  What will happen to the council?  Who is Maggie’s real father?

I liked Defiance more than I liked the previous books in the series.  It seemed like it had continuous action.  You were always wondering what was going to happen next.  Although, some of it was predictable, there were some aspects that you didn’t guess.  I didn’t like how this ended, however.  Not that I didn’t like the writing, I didn’t like what happened.  I have to read the next book in this series to find out what happens.

Significance

Accordance

Defiance

Reverence (available free here)

Independence (18 December 2012)