When You Believe (The Believe Trilogy, Book 1) | 
 enlarge | Author: Jessica Barksdale Inclan
Publisher: Zebra
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 546789
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 352
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Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 4.2 x 0.9
ISBN: 0821780816
EAN: 9780821780817
ASIN: 0821780816
Publication Date: August 1, 2007
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Chased by thugs, San Francisco poet Miranda Stead plunges through a door to what she thinks is safety. Instead, she finds herself surrounded by a bunch of paranoid, robe-wearing people who can read her thoughts. And then he steps up: tall, dark, amber-eyed, gorgeous Sariel Valasay - lured by her mind probably, and its deliciously wrong ideas.Sariel knows no ordinary human should have been able to break through to their world, but here she is, all lush curves, red hair, and snappy comebacks. As a member of the ancient Les Croyant des Trois, Sariel is sworn to protect her kind from the dark forces always at work. He never thought he'd have to protect her from his own desires. A simple touch would erase all memories of the evening from Miranda's mind. Tomorrow, he'll make her forget. Tonight, he only wants to make her believe.
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 Starts out with a bang and then slows to a crawl November 16, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Miranda is walking to her car in San Francisco when she begins to be chased by three men who obviously mean her harm. The problem is, the once busy streets now appear deserted, and things aren't where they should be.
Lost and terrified, she jumps through a door, that leads her into a room of Magic users (Croyants) who are having a meeting, supposedly impossible for a nonmagic user to find (Moyenne). She meets super hot Sariel, who is supposed to take her memories away, but can't seem to stay away from her at a critical time when the world is about to be attacked by uber villain
Quain.
After playing house for a couple days with Miranda who falls into bed with him by about chapter 2, Sariel, reminded of his duty by his Magic family decides to leave her to protect her and to remove her memories of him (he thinks) and then in turn has his memories of her removed by his Magic boss to keep her safe from Sariel's crazy evil magic doer exgirlfriend Kallisto and the master evil doer, Quain to protect her.
At this point, the whole story got boring to me. First of all, all the supposed heros act as if punching a hole in someone's brain is no big deal and not in anyway an ethical dillemma.
Miranda it turns out, through a classic case of Deux ex Machina, is actually adopted, the true daughter of one of their groups strongest magic users and herself a very strong magic user who they all need to save the day. Only, the albus dumbledore of this world, in removing her memories from Sariel, has really upset her. So how can they get her to help save the world if her boyfriend doesn't remember her.
The story had potential, it really did. Just so much of the action involves memories being removed, being put back, being threatened to be removed, being changed to use as an attack. Seriously, I've never seen anything like it before. Most of the action takes place in memories, which it turns out...isn't that exciting.
Slow...but intriguing June 9, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
HHmmm...there is something intriguing about this story. Maybe it is the magic or the sensuality behind the tale. It starts out slow, but halfway through, it picks up and becomes a very beautiful love story. The love affair between the hero and heroine is very romantic and mature. I felt the characters anxiety whenever they had to be separated and their need to be together again. I could also envision the hero's pain at having to leave the heroine behind. I thought this book had alot of emotional appeal to it. UNIQUE! That is a perfect word to describe this book. It is not a storyline that you read often. Many authors are telling the same storyline over and over, but this story feels different.
Only 3 stars because it does tend to drag at some points. It can be slow whenever the characters feel the need to explain who and what they are.
Overall: it is not bad. Not perfect - but not bad either. I am looking forward to the next book.
 Yawn April 29, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book was so boring, about a third of the way through the book I started skipping paragraphs here and there just to hurry up and finish.
 Excellent book November 14, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is the first time reading this author and I thouroughly enjoyed this book. It had an excellent and quite different plot from the standard paranormal romance novels. The main characters were refresing and very likeable. I highly recommend this book.
Wonderful! A neat new world! October 31, 2006
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I picked this up at my bookstore on a whim just from how interesting the blurb on the back made this book sound - and I was so glad that I did! This book takes you into a neat, different, and wonderfully written world, with interesting, developed, complex characters, and a wonderful mix of paranormal with romance.
The writing style is wonderful and I found myself unable to put this book down. I admit, it does spend a lot of time on the universe and general happenings, but don't let that sway you from Miranda and Sariel's story. It's moving, emotional, and just wonderful. And the supporting characters are interesting and full of personality.
I have the next book in this series already and am getting ready to start it, eager to get back to Inclan's world!
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