The Curse of M

An interesting concept - An event happens all over the world that causes people to develop magical abilities. These range from completely useless to insanely powerful and are varied.

Lorna Donovan the main character can read minds, but not control that in the beginning. Her abilities become much more powerful in her battle against Doctor Raoul von Rached who has similar powers. Both are rather prideful and stubborn individuals and you get a what happens when an immovable object meets an irresistible force thing going on in their back and forth encounters.

Rached runs a facility that kidnaps these people, named the Cursed for his usually unethical experiments. He uses his psychic powers in some truly awful ways to get what he wants.

The story has many characters and all are well done and developed. The bulk of it follows Lorna and Rached's point of views. Otherwise, it is just jam-packed with constant action and filling out the lore of what is going on that seems rich and has a lot to it.

It definitely felt a little too long and has way too many experiment on patient scenes when I felt the point was established and I was hoping the story would progress. I'm not docking any points because I know it is a long series and it needs to set things up and I tend to get impatient about these things.

Lots of action, great characters, interesting lore... a promising start to series.