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Lisa is a Best Selling Fantasy Author that has experienced a love for the arts since childhood. Lisa’s first published work was her story, Santa Claus when she was a small child. Her local newspaper published her story and awakened the writer inside of her.
Growing up in rural Hardin County, Tennessee, Lisa’s developed a passion for books and movies. She also involved herself in school, church, and college plays. While enrolled at the Bible Institute in Dallas, Texas, Lisa had the opportunity to travel to the former Soviet Union. While there, she found it to be a lovely country, and in fact, she fell in love with the nation and its people. On this trip, Lisa was able to visit a Women’s Prison, and a hospital caring for children suffering from the Nuclear Fallout of the Chernobyl disaster. While there she performed skits in both churches and on the streets. Lisa would consider it an honor to travel there again one day.
As an Author, Lisa has published three Romantic Suspense Novels: Justina’s Awakening, Justina’s Love Revealed, and Josie’s Thorn. She has also published the first book of her Dark Fantasy Series, Mystic Mist, Book 1 in the New Breed Series. Lisa also has a couple of free books available.
Reviewed by Ica Iova for Readers' Favorite
Hellavey — book two in the New Breed series by Lisa Vandiver - is so much more than a gripping fantasy that puts the reader in the middle of a war between humans, Hellaveys, and Earth vampires. Hellaveys are a group of powerful creatures from another world brought to Earth by The Mist and ruled by Queen Santono and her two lovers, Prince Jeremy, and Waylona. While Detectives Alex Mosley and James Frazier try to solve a series of mysterious murders, completely unaware of a powerful enemy that is settling just outside their community, Keilwen, Prince of the Aspellian Kingdom, is also sucked into The Mist and brought to Earth, where he is reunited with his long-lost parents.
Though Hellavey is the second book in the series, it has enough background information that it can stand alone. Hellavey is a fantastic book, complete with a made up Carasylian language. I can honestly say that I have never read anything like it. Through vivid descriptions and characters with strong personalities, Vandiver delivers a terrifying cinematic tale of murder, desire, self-discipline, and sometimes out of control circumstances. The city of Tonospon, surrounded by forest and eerie but breathtaking caves, is the perfect backdrop for the flurry of action that starts on the first page and lasts all the way through. The dynamics between these entities, each fighting for survival, hold puzzles that put everyone’s lives at risk. Vandiver’s imagination will take you far and beyond what you think you know when you first start reading this book.
