Well I actually finished this book a while ago, and I've been wanting and meaning to write a review, but I haven't found the time. But here I am finally writing it, so yay:D I'm reviewing Life Eternal by Yvonne Woon, which is the sequel to Dead Beautiful. I was really happy with this book. I've experienced a lot of book cases where the first book is AMAZING, and then the sequel down-right sucks. Thank God this wasn't the case with Life Eternal. And I read it so fast, I swear I thought I was only several chapters in and I was half-way through. It just kept me flipping the page and didn't get boring. There were a few little things that I was like OH NO PLEASE DON'T BE SECOND-BOOKISH. DON'T FALL UNDER THE SECOND BOOK CURSE, but apart from that it was really amazing. I completely suck at summaries, by the way, so I suggest looking up a summary. This is just more of my thoughts on the book.
I absolutely LOVE how Yvonne Woon can tie these intriguing mysteries into her novels. I feel like so many times there are these paranormal romance teen novels that are good, but the whole mystery is just "my love interest isn't human. what is he?!?!?!" but in this case, sure for Dead Beautiful there was that, but there was also the Gottfried mystery. Now there's a whole new mystery in Life Eternal, and I'm SO glad it wasn't like "I already KNOW the answer, come on Renee, why don't YOU?" but I was actually just as clueless as she was at times. I also really liked Anya, a new character in the novel. She was different and interesting. Now I was SLIGHTLY disappointed in this book though. It kind of hit the edge of that whole "second book curse" thing. It was right on the line. You know where the random extra guy comes in, or all of a sudden it becomes an unnecessary love triangle. Now this wasn't as bad as other books, the whole "guy-who-gets-involved-with-the-main-characters-love-life" wasn't nearly as bad. At first he was a good part of the story I thought, and later he himself was still an important character, but as he got more into Renee, and she started thinking about him I was just like "ugh, please don't turn this into a love triangle thingy." BUT however, it didn't necessarily do that, and I think the author did a nice job. My only other disappointment was Renee in this book and NOT trusting Dante. I swear, all these female protagonists are so ANTI-TRUSTING of their so called SOUL MATES. I'm always thinking "He's your "soul mate," your lover, whatever, and yet you can barely trust them?" I understood her suspicions throughout the book, and it'd be stupid if she was in denial and wouldn't be good for her character, but I feel like she just wasn't trusting enough and I see too much of that in these types of books.
BESIDES these little things though, I completely loved the book and cannot wait for the third one, which Yvonne Woon is currently working on, but there's no official title or release date yet.
