I also got to spend time with her at last weekend’s LDStorymakers Conference. Lani got the idea for Intrinsical by doing a fan fiction story for her favorite show The X Files–it’s a cool story. I recently met Lani Woodland at a book club discussion and instantly loved her. Besides Yara, Brent was my favorite, a guy who has many of his own complications. There are so many likable characters in this book too.

There are so many cools twists and turns that Yara takes, and where she ends up at the end is impressive. Something huge happens to Yara, earlier then I was excepting, and I really love what the author did with it. So, right away, she realizes her ability has been lying dormant all this time, until she is needed in a moments notice. Yara grandmother encourages her to attend, even though Pendrell has been loosing students to suicide. Little did Yara know, Pendrell Academy is surrounded by mystery. When she starts school at Pendrell Academy, Yara was hoping just to attend school, and not have her ability be “awakened”. Yara’s grandmother was also one, but she was taunted by her ability. Being a Waker she can see and communicate with ghosts. Yara Silva knows that ghosts are around her. Then, abruptly, it paused, circling tightly around a boy with sable hair.” Intrinsical pages 1-2 It brought to mind a dark rain cloud, one that promised a terrible storm… The mist wound around one student, then another, releasing each before moving on, still searching. Instead of a transparent white, it was a deep charcoal gray, almost black.

Curious, I turned to find something shimmering in the air, almost like a fine mist–but it was unlike any mist I had ever seen. “Out of the corner of my eye, I noticed something slide past me.

Intrinsical by Lani Woodland