Most people inherit money; Alexis inherited Hell… The Foster House The house is important, and so are you, hexe. The ancient ones foretold this. Yet, we’re still not sure. But we won’t kill you. We have killed before, those that didn’t have the blood. Your ancestors want to protect you; they need to. Blood is the key. He wants your blood. Peace and harmony must be restored. A house’s thirst for … blood.
Peace and harmony must be restored.
A house’s thirst for blood and a family secret are revealed when Alexis, a young empathetic law student, inherits her family’s long forgotten estate, The Foster House.
An empathetic law student is the key.
When Alexis moves in to The Foster House, she is surrounded by ghosts and a mysterious history. A history that is her legacy. But it’s not just the house she needs to worry about. An evil entity has enlisted the help of an ex-special ops Captain, Brenton Young, to manipulate Alexis’s life for his own dark purposes.
A family legacy will be revealed.
As the FBI, NSA, and local police close in on Brenton Young, Alexis enlists the help of her boss and secret crush, District Attorney, Josh Hampton. Together, can they solve the mysteries of the house and discover what her true legacy really is or will the answers they find lead to more questions & mysteries?
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Her Legacy (The Foster House Legacy Series Book 1)
by Teresa Crumpton
This book was a great read. I plan on reading the next book in this set. You have it all in this book, mysteries, magic, romance, and a heavy plot, family secrets. I started reading it yesterday after a long day and this AM I finished it. I love the fact that his heroine doesn’t need anyone to save her. It is hard to find books like that. At first, it seemed like we would never to get to the whole plot of the book. It was a bit slow, but that was turned on its head. Once we got through the background it came together. The cliffhanger! UGH, I hate them. I have this feeling that book two will help me. I saw a book two and I am not sure if that is the end of the story. The writing was well done. the way she described the settings was wonderful it makes it so easy to see how the house looked or the apartment. While she is a new to me author, I am so glad that I picked this book. The haunted house is a favorite genre of mine.
I give this book 5 out of 5 stars. You need to pick it up. I got it on kindle unlimited.
Celtic
First time in reading this author I was thinking I got Blood ties but received this one instead. Good thing too because for this series and the way the story goes it really should be gotten at the beginning. When you first encounter Alexis you soon even feel her predicament but then along comes Josh and their story has captured you. Follow along with how unique she is and what is happening. Mystery is big on the forefront with you getting trapped until the answers appear. When it really gets deep you are left with them wanting more but wait is what will have to happen.
I really loved this story from the beginning, and I know many people will say there is too much detail or it feels too long. This book had to be epic in length; the story is so big and encompasses so many people as it goes along that it needed the length to get us to the absolutely killer CLIFFHANGER. This spooky-scary-on-the-edge-of-your-seat story needed the cliffhanger to stun the audience. So just keep reading. Lucky for you, she’s already gotten Bloodties out so you can binge read the whole thing.
To the story. I loved Alexis’ relationships with all her men, as I like to call them. My one complaint about Alexis is how clumsy and damsel in distress she is in this first novel. The layout of the story is very well done. There is family drama, a little bit of history revealed, more intrigue than Angela Landsbury gave in Murder She Wrote, and lots of details that will be a part of the rest of the series. And oh my, the build-up to the end has you on the verge of a heart attack before she quickly closes the chapter on this one. I’m giving it a 5 of 5 because I love the pace, it’s one of the only books I’ve had the pleasure of reading more than once and loved it each time, and because I believe Alexis will get superpowers in the next one. So pick up a copy, make some hot chocolate or a whiskey, and settle in for a spooky read. Enjoy!!!
I love me a good paranormal thriller and I was so excited to dive into this one. I was actually hooked when I came across the synopsis to book 2 in the series but quickly learned that these books MUST be read in order.
Book one had me full of plenty of questions right off the bat that I was hoping I would get answers to as the book progressed. What I found was that there was so much information flying at me that it took some time to wrap around exactly what was happening. This book is very detailed almost to the point of making it hard to read in places. I did find myself skimming some paragraphs to get the basic idea of what was going on but then other times I had to read every word because I was so engrossed in what was happening.
I think that the story line was unique and catching. The relationships between the characters was unusual as well. Alexis is the main character, but we get to see a lot of her ex, her best friend and her current love interest.
Full lots of suspense and mystery I am hoping book 2 sheds some light on the mystery of the Foster House.- By Alisa
I really wanted to love this book. I was hooked by the blurb and had high expectations but it didn’t quite make it. I really never felt connected and spent a lot of the book just trying to figure out who was what and how they were connected. A lot of information is given and there are some really good aspects of the book but unfortunately it just didn’t flow well and felt choppy. I haven’t read this author before but wanted something different and was hooked by the cover.This isn’t a standalone so I will be continuing mainly because I want an ending. Lex is supposed to be a hard core but we haven’t seen that part yet, although we have seen that she will verbally stand up for herself. There’s a house that is haunted by spirits and a past that her family has hidden from her. While pieces have surfaced there is still plenty to resolve and I will be along for the ride.
So this was a difficult one for me, on the one hand, I did finish Her Legacy.
But on the other, I found it a struggle to actually get there.
Even skimming in places.
It was only my sheer pig-headed determination that got me to that ultimate end post.
I was so determined to finish this wanting to discover where this was ultimately heading.
Unfortunately for me, I discovered upon arriving at my destination that this book had an actual sequel.
And I’m sorry to say that this is one ride that I won’t be continuing on to the next stop with.
Don’t get me wrong the premise behind this book was actually very interesting and up until the halfway point here I was still somewhat invested in the whole nine yards.
But Somewhere in the middle of this things went slightly to pot for me and this wasn’t working its mojo on me anymore.
So there were a few things here that I found issue with that then managed to derail things somewhat for me.
First Alexis herself, I found her character to be a bit of an odd-duck.
She was described in the context of taking no shit and of being of a feisty nature.
Well, I got the impression that the actual opposite was true, she was constantly hyperventilating and fainting and came across as being of a delicate constitution, very eighteenth-century lady/
Damsel in distress.
Tucker and Daniel seemed to be her constant wingmen.
Which was a bloody strange happening in itself considering one was her ex and the other her brand new squeeze.
I also wasn’t really that invested in Daniel and Alexia’s relationship I just wasn’t feeling the love if I’m honest, sorry.
I also became quite confused in places as well and found myself having to re-read certain passages to orient myself within the story-line.
There was sometimes too much attention to detail and I would become distracted by the narrative which in itself was of a rather flowery nature.
For example, there were whole chapters dedicated to furniture placement it was such overkill and was also so tedious.
There really was no need for so much extra padding here.
It was not necessary and just lengthened what was already an extremely long read.
All without adding anything substantial to the overall plot.
Also, at times there was such character overload that I had difficulty keeping individuals straight in my head.
And for some weird obscure reason, everyone seemed to have a thing for Alexia like she was some kind of Love goddess.
So this was a bit of a mixed bag of tricks for me.
I really wish I could give this a higher rating overall.
“Her Legacy” wasn’t in itself awful, just a bit of a slog for me with a writing style that just wasn’t really my bag at all.
This still did have a fantastic supernatural gothicy feel to it and the overall ideas used here were still imaginative and made for an intriguing blurb.
Just a shame that ultimately this just wasn’t really my thing.
Thank You to the Author for providing me with a copy of “Her Legacy (The Foster House Legacy #1)” of which I have reviewed voluntary.
All opinions expressed are entirely my own.