”An absolute page turner!”~Amazon ReviewerLiving in a small town like Woodvine, North Carolina, means everyone knows everything about everybody. The same goes for seventeen-year-old Leath Elliott who can’t seem to escape her tragic past and the loss of her father. Her only break from reality is through recurring dreams where she’s spent a lifetime growing up with a boy she’s never met. When a … never met.
When a stranger shows up in the form of James Turner – a mysterious boy with a dark past – Leath begins to wonder if her dreams might be coming true. Literally.
Things get complicated when Leath finds out that James’ sudden appearance in her small town is anything but a coincidence. Demanding answers, Leath confronts James, but nothing could have prepared her for the truth he tells her.
Now, the future she once saw in her dreams and the boy she’s falling for is fading fast and Leath must make the ultimate decision between giving up her freedom or giving up her heart.
Fading is the first book in the new Fading Series by Cindy Cipriano. Fans of Paranormal Romance and Fantasy favorites such as The Twilight Series and The Mortal Instruments Series will love this unique new series that Kirkus Reviews calls: “gripping,” and “transcending genre cliches.”
Novels inThe Fading Series by Cindy Cipriano:
- Fading (Available Now)
- Searching(Available Now)
- Pretending (Available Now)
- Books Four and Five Will Release in 2021
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Fading is a charming story of teenage love and longing narrated with much warmth and sparkle. Leath, a seventeen-year-old high school student, has fallen out of love, if she ever has been in love, with Victor, a Spanish boy and longterm friend devoted to her. Leath is searching for fulfilment, in whatever form that comes. Then a new boy, James, starts at the school and Leath falls in love. James has lost both his parents, Leath has lost her father. United at first by a shared grief and a deep attraction, as Leath gets to know James more and more, all is not as it seems. Meanwhile, Leath is torn between her love for gorgeous and mysterious James and her lingering attachment to soft and reliable Victor.
As the story unfolds and the mystery of James is revealed, the story slips into the paranormal, building to fascinating otherworldly revelations.
Fading is very well written with good pacing and excellent characterisation. Cipriano gets under the skin of her protagonist, right to the heart of her fantasies, dreams and feelings, her confusion and sensitivities and hurt as she searches for real love. Enchanting, sad, touching, and evocative of all the fine feelings of youth, Fading is very hard to put down.
I really, really liked this book. It was rather unusual and different. Liked the characters and liked the story. Getting ready to buy book two, “Searching”.
I enjoyed reading this book. The characters were good, the idea behind the book was very original and worth reading. The ending was good enough that I was satisfied with not having to read the rest of the series to feel fulfilled. I may go back and buy the rest one day, but my mood led me elsewhere at the moment.
Hm…I’m still reading but it’s kinda good, a little boring but I recommend.
A beautiful book full of romance and mystery!
I love this book! It’s nice to read something without all the profanity. Great story line and your torn between who Leath will choose! I immediately had to follow up with the second book and am anxiously awaiting the release of book 3 this year!
Love the characters. Very original storyline!
Read this book! If it’s the last thing you do, read this book! Please!
I devoured it in one day! I just finished and it’s one of those books. Ya’ know the one, where you feel like you don’t know where to go from here? How will I ever read another book again after how much I loved this one? It was fast paced, filled with strong relationships and intriguing characters. I was so interested in the characters that I was completely taken by surprise as the book unfolded. I won’t say anymore because I want you to be able to enjoy it as well as I did! I absolutely cannot wait to start the next in the series and I will be impatiently waiting for the next installment! Read this book! You won’t be disappointed
Fading by Cindy Cipriano may not contain vampires or werewolves yet it still has a slightly supernatural/paranormal feel to it. This book is in a similar group as Twilight as a forbidden love book. Also, this is only the first book in a series that is expected to be three or four books long.
Leath is the typical seventeen-year-old high school girl. She has her mother’s full support after her father died and her two best friends Victor and Anamae. The three of them have been considering college visits and what the future may hold for them. Leath and Victor have always been close but when Victor starts showing interest in being more than just friends with Leath she resists him. Victor believes Leath is confused and will come around to recognizing her feelings for him but Leath is not too sure. Then while working in her guidance councilor’s office Leath sees the transfer file for a new student, James.
As if fate put them together James and Leath run into each other on Jame’s first day and they instantly become inseparable. Leath feels as if she has known James for her entire life and James feels the same way about her. Leath wonders if James is the same boy that Leath has actually been having dreams about all her life. Is she prepared to make the huge sacrifice required for her to be with James? Leath must choose between her friends, family, and freedom, or James before he makes the decision for her.
What I liked best about the book was honestly James himself. Even if he seemed somewhat creepy at times he is a great guy. His willingness to live alone and possibly face the wrath of his race just to protect Leath from his societies traditions are commendable. What I didn’t really like was the abrupt change around chapter fifteen. I understand the need for it but it was a little rough at first. I also didn’t understand completely why the fading worked so well on Leath that time when it didn’t work the first time. The only difference I can really come up with was the medication Leath was on and everyone else forgetting James helping her forget as well.
Teens of all ages will find this book to be appealing as the language is mild and there isn’t really any inappropriate content. Readers of romance will defiantly enjoy this book more so than fans of other genres. I give this book a rating of 4 out of 4. Fans of teen romance will love this twist on a classic forbidden love story. The entire concept of fading allows for the story to move on without having messy explanations in the middle of everything.
Ahhh…to be seventeen again, and in love. All the feels, all the danger!
haven’t read a lot from the young adult category in a few years. It was a challenge to jump into the mindset of unfamiliar young adult characters and a pleasant surprise to find that it wasn’t at all difficult and I believe that’s down to the storytelling skills of author, Cindy Cipriano.
The main character is Leath, a 17 year old doing her best to recover from the loss of her dad a few years prior. And she’s doing okay. Studying hard so she can move on from her small town, attend college, and get on with her life, which is on track to do exactly that when James Turner arrives in town. The new kid is gorgeous, in some of Leath’s classes, and seems strangely familiar. The pair certainly seem to have a strong, instant connection much to the dismay of Leath’s best friend, Victor.
I was a little concerned the author was going to take us into the strange “Twilight” world of obsessive stalker-like behaviour but Cipriano manages to avoid that with characters that know their own minds as well as each others. At least, they think they do because James is from a race of people who have one or two special abilities (I’m not going to give it away) and if he seems familiar to Leath, that’s because he most certainly is (in an eerie dreamlike kind of way).
Fading is a story that brings paranormal, fantasy, and romance genres together with a strength of style and narrative that should see the momentum grow from book to book. There is a high degree of emotional intensity around Leath, particularly around her struggle to balance her enduring love for Victor with the all consuming emotion she is experiencing with James.
(Full review on my website)
I was given the honor of reading and reviewing Fading by Cindy Cipriano. While Fading is a YA book, that is not all it is. What would do you are faced with the possibility of finding the boy of your dreams? Literally, your dreams?? That is what happens to Leath Elliott. 17 year old Leath is facing her senior year with her best friend, Victor Santana. As we all know being a senior brings out so many emotions. Each a little scarier than the last when we realize that soon we will be out in the real world, all alone. For Leath this is all even scarier, as she lost her father when she was young and Victor was all that she had other than her mom. Then out of no where James Turner enters her life. He is everything she has dreamt of. Leath feels emotions for James that she has no clue how to figure them out. It seems like they have always known each other. He has some uncanny built in knowledge of her.
Cipriano builds the mystery of who James is so beautifully. It draws you in deeper and deeper, until you realize you have to know. When you finally know you are left with a decision that is so complex I don’t think I would know what to do. To choose between the love of my dreams or the love of my reality, who can seriously do that?? Leath is scared of what her choice will do to both young men. Yet, in her hearts of hearts, she knows who has completely captivated her heart and soul. She needs to get. With the beautiful characters and relationships that Cipriano has built up in Fading you won’t be able to wait until the next book in the series. While Leath makes her decision (sorry ya’ll know I don’t do spoilers) would you make the same one??
For me, Fading was a sweet love triangle that made me want to actually be back in high school (did I really just type that??) for a few brief moments. I truly enjoyed and recommend Fading. It is a book that any young teen to grown woman would enjoy disappearing into.
I’ll try to write this without giving away spoilers. This is a book that touches the soul. It is so uniquely written. It reached down into the heart of me. It reminds me of loved ones I’ve lost, yet they are still with me. Especially when I have dreams that are so real about them. What if all your life you’ve dreamed of someone and remember vaguely having shared a friendship from as far back as you can remember when you were a child? As if fate really does play a role in who becomes part of our lives. This is what I see Leath going through in this book. I can’t explain it very well because I don’t want to ruin anything. I really wish it would be made into a movie because it would be wonderful. It reminds me of Twilight in a way except better and has a uniqueness of its own. I was town between team Victor and team James. I really loved both characters. In fact, every character in the book was wonderful. The author paints them so well that you feel like they are truly people you know and care about.
It started out pretty good, but started to get whiney
An inquisitive emotionally poignant story!
I honestly stopped reading once I realized that this was going to be a trilogy. Yes it is YA but there was something choppy about the writing/storytelling that didn’t work. The reviews compared it to Twilight and I would say that is fair. This is not about vampires but love triangles, non-descript teenage girl that narrates the story. Beautiful rich mysterious stranger that seems off…even childhood best friend that loves you and is incredibly protective and a POC. If this were 20 years ago it would be a fresh read but it’s not…
Maybe something was going to happen eventually, but I got tired of waiting. Didn’t finish it.