Everyone believes the main character, Rue Daniels, is certifiably crazy. Especially her parents. What is Rue’s biggest sin? Does she hurt people? Hurt herself? Is she a danger to society? No. Rue she sees people that aren’t there. Talks to them. They talk to her. She feels what others feel. She has felt so alone all her life, unloved, so maybe the voices and visions aren’t all bad. Her parents had her locked away in an institution, making sure the key would never be found. As she lay on a hospital bed, restrained, drugged, she doesn’t know if she should fight or give in, but finds the option really isn’t hers. One figment is extraordinarily handsome and sexy. Not only is she now crazy and crazy lonely, apparently she’s conjuring up a spirit lover.

Sir John Weston has been dead some three hundred years. He’s come to rescue Rue, offering a way to strength she never before knew, an exciting job, friends, even a family of sorts. So . . . what’s real and what isn’t?

Crystal Jordan is a very talented writer. Characterizations are quirky but well-developed, real, and while overtly unique, they work. Rue and John bounce off each other, in every sense of the word, interacting well, with tight and saucy dialogue. Even secondary characters fit the plot and mesh well. The story is a bit of a stickler but it flows if the reader is willing to suspend logic and just go with it. After all, truth is, none of us really know the truth . . . or do we? In The Runes: Revenant offers an unusual but satisfying scenario.

Overall rating:
Sensuality rating: Very sensual

Reviewer: Linda J. Alexander
July 21, 2008