Author: Julie Kagawa
Publisher: Harlequin
Teen
Date: Available now
Source: Publisher via
Netgalley
My grade: A+
Allison Sekemoto has
vowed to rescue her creator, Kanin, who is being held hostage and tortured by
the psychotic vampire Sarren. The call of blood leads her back to the
beginning—New Covington and the Fringe, and a vampire prince who wants her dead
yet may become her wary ally.
Even as Allie faces
shocking revelations and heartbreak like she’s never known, a new strain of the
Red Lung virus that decimated humanity is rising to threaten human and vampire
alike. (description from Goodreads)
Initial reaction
Why, Julie, why????
::sobs uncontrollably::
Cover story
I like this cover, although it doesn’t really match the
first one, which I also liked. But it’s
a good cover and I would be happy to show it out in public. I like the title too. It’s catchy and I think it will pique
readers’ interest. This is also a great
cover and title for boys. It’s not girly
at all, so it won’t be off-putting.
What’s the Story?
This novel picks up where The Immortal Rules left off. It’s been a few months, but Allison is
searching for Kanin, her creator, who is being held captive by a
pscho-vamp. Along the way, she runs into
her vampire brother, Jackal, who is also the crazy vampire lord that killed a
bunch of the humans in the first book.
So that’s where we stand.
Reviewing second books in a trilogy is always so, so hard
because I am so afraid of spoilers, but I’ll try to keep this one as
spoiler-free as possible. And this book
is going to be hard to review without spoilers, so if the review seems a little
lacking, understand that the reason is so that you, the reader, can enjoy your
own journey with this book.
Julie Kagawa is a master and now she is truly a master of
the vampire novel. Seriously, I rank
these vampire novels right up there with Anne Rice. Kagawa, like Rice, manages to capture the
complexities of the vampiric existence.
The myriad of emotions and the love-hate relationship vampires have with
humans and one another. She also manages
to show the many different sides of vampires and she does it without making
vampires seem like good guys or bad guys.
They simply ARE.
The Immortal Rules was really about getting to know the
humans that inhabit this fictitious world.
Even though Allison became a vampire, she spent most of the book with
humans. In The Eternity Cure, this is
the reader’s glimpse into the world of the vampires. We get to see the good, the bad and the ugly
here and come to understand that, just as in the human world, there are really
no absolutes. Even the seemingly “bad”
vampires have pasts that have made them who they are. Just as in any good literature, the reader is
left questioning “Who is the monster and who is the man”? (with apologies to
Disney for stealing that line!) But that
is what good books should make us do. We
should re-think our paradigms and realize that humans, and vampires, cannot be
pigeon-holed into “good” or “bad”. That
is one of the things I enjoyed most about this novel.
I am so glad that I got to spend some more time with
Jackal. He is such an interesting
character. Of course, Zeke shows up
again in this novel and I loved seeing his character develop more as well as
his relationship with Allison. There
were some surprising characters that reappeared and there were moments that
completely broke my heart and left me almost bereft. Yet, there were also moments that were
completely uplifting. This novel took me
through a myriad of emotions and left me breathless by the end. I cannot wait for the next novel.
The Soundtrack
The Rescue by American Hi-Fi
Flying High by Jem
Honey and the Moon by Joseph Arthur
Stop and Stare by One Republic
Brave by Idina Menzel
Hey World (Don’t Give Up) by Michael Franti
The Final Grade
My final grade for this book is an A+. Even though parts of it broke my heart, I
loved every moment of it and I can’t wait to get the next book and see what
sort of awesomeness Julie Kagawa has in store for me!
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