Review: The Eternal Ones by Kirsten Miller
Goodreads: What if love refused to die?
Haven Moore can’t control her visions of a past with a boy called Ethan, and a life in New York that ended in fiery tragedy. In our present, she designs beautiful dresses for her classmates with her best friend Beau. Dressmaking keeps her sane, since she lives with her widowed and heartbroken mother in her tyrannical grandmother’s house in Snope City, a tiny town in Tennessee. Then an impossible group of coincidences conspire to force her to flee to New York, to discover who she is, and who she was.
In New York, Haven meets Iain Morrow and is swept into an epic love affair that feels both deeply fated and terribly dangerous. Iain is suspected of murdering a rock star and Haven wonders, could he have murdered her in a past life? She visits the Ouroboros Society and discovers a murky world of reincarnation that stretches across millennia. Haven must discover the secrets hidden in her past lives, and loves¸ before all is lost and the cycle begins again.
Oh how I loved Haven, I felt such a connection with her. She is strange to her classmates and grew up in a horribly tiny town. I grew up an hour away from where Haven is located and I understand exactly what Miller describes in the first part of the book about how Haven is treated at school and in her community. If you think it is a bit far fetched that the preacher of the town is trying to exercise a demon from young Haven, think again. All things are possible in rural Northern Tennessee.
As Haven remembers more of her past lives and begins on her journey the book picks up pace quite a bit. I believe the first part while it reads slow is fundamental in understand Haven and how her mind works. We meet Iain and the great love affair begins. Haven is very mistrustful of Iain / Ethan due to her spotty past memories and events going on in the present and I as the reader was very distrustful of him as well. Iain seems a bit sneaky.
My only criticism of this book is that I think Iain could have been more, well for the lack of a better work swoon-worthy. He didn’t take my breath away, I didn’t feel like he was circling the eons continually coming back to love Haven. Maybe the distrust plays a part in that.
However, when I finished reading this book I ran to see what it was categorized as. It was like no young adult I had read before. The prose and use of wording and the sheer size of the ARC had me in complete disbelief it was YA. When I got over my momentary shock and realized this book was in fact YA lit, I became completely infatuated with the writing style. Here is someone not writing down for a level. Here is a book that defies the whole genre! Pick up the Eternal Ones, read it. I am sure you will be amazed at this top shelf, high concept literature.
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FTC Disclosure: I received this book for review from the publisher.
Review: The Iron Daughter by Julie Kagawa
Goodreads:
Half Summer faery princess, half human, Meghan has never fit in anywhere. Deserted by the Winter prince she thought loved her, she is prisoner to the …more Half Summer faery princess, half human, Meghan has never fit in anywhere. Deserted by the Winter prince she thought loved her, she is prisoner to the Winter faery queen. As war looms between Summer and Winter, Meghan knows that the real danger comes from the Iron Fey, iron-bound faeries that only she and her absent prince have seen. But no one believes her. Worse, Meghan’s own fey powers have been cut off. She’s alone in Faery with only her wits for help. Trusting anyone would be foolish. Trusting a seeming traitor could be deadly. But even as she grows a backbone of iron, Meghan can’t help but hear the whispers of longing in her all-too-human heart.
You are going to hear me say words that I have never said on this blog and in all probability never say again: “The second book was better than the first”. Yes that’s right folks you heard me correctly. I loved The Iron Daughter in so many ways. You were able to glean much more insight into the characters and even find out some dirt on the Puck / Ash situation. The Iron Fey are back and with a vengeance and the Iron Horse (Team Iron Horse FTW) is awesome as always.
Meghan grows up quite a bit and turns into quite the little kick-ass vixen. I enjoyed seeing her transitioning from girl to older girl.
A host of new characters to whet your appetites, and scores of old characters coming back for me. Such as Grim the most awesome cat ever.
If you like Holly Black or Maggie Stiefvater you will love Julie Kagawa!
Fragment Friday: The Eternal Ones
James from Book Chic Club hosts this new and fantastic meme, where you can read a tiny excerpt from what you are reading right now! Do it!
A book a week giveaway week 5
Brodie won Incarceron!
Contrats to Spav for winning Gone!
Based on your votes this week’s giveaway is Gone by Lisa McMann. Comment to enter.
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For next week there will be no vote because I am going to an author event featuring Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl. I will buy a copy of the book and hopefully have it signed.
Who would you cast in the Beautiful Creatures movie?
So if you read my Beautiful Creatures review & interview you know that the book got optioned for a movie!
So who would you cast for:
Ethan
Lena
Amma
Macon
Ethan’s Dad
Link
Mrs. Lincoln
The Librarian
Ridley
For me so far:
Ethan: someone new completely new
Lena: someone new again anyone but Miley Cyrus
Amma: Whoopie Goldberg
Macon: Jude Law
Ethan’s Dad: A man who should be in every movie Nathan Fillion
Link: a new face
Mrs. Lincoln: undecided at the moment
The Librarian: Sandra Bullock
Ridley: Reece Witherspoon
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