dinsdag 15 mei 2012

Predestined - Abbi Glines


Serie: Existence Trilogy #2 
Release date: 2012 

You would think after helping save her boyfriend from an eternity in Hell that things would go back to normal. Well, as normal as life can be when you can see souls and your boyfriend is Death. But for Pagan Moore, things are just getting weirder.

The high school quarterback and reigning heartthrob, Leif Montgomery, is missing. While the town is in a frenzy of worry, Pagan is a nervous wreck for other reasons. Apparently good ‘ol Leif isn’t your average teenage boy. He isn’t even human. According to Death, Leif doesn’t have a soul. The quarterback may have skipped town but he’s still showing up in Pagan’s dreams... uninvited.

Dank has known from the beginning Leif wasn’t human. But he hadn’t worried about a simple soulless creature. Now, he realizes he made a grave mistake. Pagan’s soul has been marked since birth as a restitution, to a spirit so dark not even Death walks near it. Dank knows saving Pagan’s soul won’t be easy but Pagan is his. And he’s already proven he’ll defy Heaven to keep her. If Hell wants a piece of him too, then bring it on.


So I kind of was in love with the first book's cover. And the cover of this second book is also great. I thought the first book was very good, but could have been better, so I hoped that this second book would do it for me. Unfortunately I did not like this book at all. I forced myself to finish this one and found myself skipping pieces. I always hate it when I don't like a book while so many people loved it. That's the reason I kept reading, surely I missed something right? The first thing I hated is the realtionship with Dank. What happened? While in the first book I loved the sexual tension and excitement, in this one it lacked it all. It was no longer interesting, it felt like it wasn't the same Dank anymore (still hate the name Dank btw). The second thing is the dreams that Pagan kept having. I understand that it were memories, but it felt just childish. I didn't like to read them at all and skipped them mostly. And then there is ofcourse Leif, he's supposed to be the bad guy. Unfortunately Pagan doesn't act like it and because of how the story is writing you find yourself not hating him. Instead I was beginning to dislike Dank, while I should dislike Leif. To give some credit to the book, the story wasn't one I read about before and the end of the book you get a bit excited. But honestly? I don't understand why people like this one so much.

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