New Book Alert: The Girl With The In-Sight by William P. Mills; Suspenseful and Lovely Urban Fantasy About a Magical Young Girl And Her New Family

 New Book Alert: The Girl With The In-Sight by William P. Mills; Suspenseful and Lovely Urban Fantasy About a Magical Young Girl And Her New Family

By Julie Sara Porter

Bookworm Reviews 

Spoilers: The Girl With The In-Sight by William P. Mills is a suspenseful and lovely modern fantasy novel with plenty of magic. It has a girl with magical abilities but it also reveals the magic of lonely people who get together to become a family.

Mirari Ramirez is a sweet young girl with intuitive and empathic abilities. She is attuned to the feelings and needs of others. She can also see auras and colors floating above other people's heads. However, her abilities can't protect from a dark sinister creature that she dubs the Bloody Dragon who stalks her. Nor can she prevent her mother from being killed.

Terrified, Mirari runs for her life and hides. However, she finds two protectors in  Sharisse, a beautiful nurse and Virgil, a scarred recluse. The three strangers bond together to protect each other from the dark terrifying creatures, learn deeper secrets about Mirari's origins and powers, and become a newfound family by choice.

This book is similar to The Book of Uriel by Elyse Hoffman, Fearghus Academy: October Jewels by I.O. Schaeffer, and The Prophecy Has Begun: Donum by Alexandra Lane about a magical child and their loving protectors. In each one, it shows the child having this marvelous ability and how their parents and guardian accepts and protects this child in their care, even when they don't always understand what they are going through. They are the true definitions of families that accept and unconditionally love each other despite their abnormal behaviors, appearances, thought process, and abilities.

Through his three leads, Mills shows the making of a sweet loving family. Mirari is an adorable bright girl without being overly cutesy or cloying. She has seen poverty and hardship and is well aware of the darkness that surrounds her, both human and demonic. She just chooses to look for the goodness and light within others. She refers to her guardians by nicknames that reveal what she sees in them, "Angel Lady" for Sharisse and "Friendly Monster" for Virgil. She sees better things within them than they see in themselves.

Her guardians are also well written, especially with how their relationship with Mirari helps them with their personal struggles. Because of his appearance, Virgil withdraws from most people, women in particular. He had a misanthropic nature in which he imagined other people hurting as much as he was hurt. All of that changes when he meets Mirari. The girl opens up a loving and paternal side to him. He begins to care for her and others.

Sharisse has problems from the opposite end of the appearance spectrum. She is someone who fits the saying about "beauty being a curse." People dismiss her kind and intelligent nature by seeing her as a vapid pretty face. She is often physically assaulted and believes that it is some sort of punishment for her looks. Mirari and eventually Virgil see the real kindness inside her and see a person who is  beautiful both inside and out.

The family aspect of the book is the strongest part of  though there are some interesting other facets as well. There are some creepy suspenseful scenes against the dark demons after Mirari and the truth to her origins is fascinating.

However, the real magic and insight in the story is the creation of a new loving family.