The ending I found quite gripping, as you are still left in the unknown, so it makes you want to carry on into the next book in the series. Michael seems mysterious at first, and then you find he turns into a like-able character, which is good. In terms of characters, I liked the relationship between Ellie and Michael. Throughout most of the story, Ellie and Michael go through tasks where they try to discover who and what they are, and their family backgrounds, etc. This book is the first book in the series. The more and more they find out, the scarier their situation and lives become. They are both determined to discover what they are and how they got that way. When Ellie starts to remember Michael from the past, they slowly get closer and eventually romance blossoms.
But Michael has a secret, and when Ellie discovers that secret, she feels relieved and glad that she's finally found someone who is just like her in her abilities. Ellie's parents are professors, and they travel in the summertime to various locations to teach farmers better ways to have improved land. Michael sees Ellie at school and recognises her from somewhere, and it turns out they met a few years back in Guatemala. She then discovers that Michael also shares the same unique powers. She also starts off having dreams of flying that to her feel so real, and when she meets Michael, he helps her to realise that she isn't dreaming she's flying, she actually IS flying. Ellie can read minds from a single touch. But even more extraordinary is the contents of the manuscript's vellum pages, which may have dire repercussions for the Catholic Church and could very well rewrite the origins of Christianity.Ellie knew there was something different about her.
Hidden within the sacred box is the most beautiful illuminated manuscript Alex has ever seen. Modern day- Alexandra Patterson, an appraiser of medieval relics, has been summoned to Kildare to examine a reliquary box believed to belong to Saint Brigid. When Brigid assigns Decius a holy task-to create the most important and sacred manuscript ever made-he finds himself at odds with his original mission and faces the most difficult decision of his life. As Decius records the unorthodox practices of Brigid and her abbey, he becomes intrigued by her. Hearing accounts of Brigid's power, the Church deems her a threat and sends Decius, a Roman priest and scribe, on a secret mission to collect proof of Brigid's heresy. Followers flock to her Kildare abbey and scriptorium. Fifth-century Ireland- Brigid is Ireland's first and only female priest and bishop. Rich in historical detail, Heather Terrell's mesmerizing novel Brigid of Kildare is the story of the revolutionary Saint Brigid and the discovery of the oldest illuminated manuscript in the annals of the Church, a manuscript that contains an astonishing secret history.
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