Review: 5 cents says it will be a best seller!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 12, 2014
This book started off slow, like most best sellers, but the little mystery of her mother kept a firm grip on my interest. Mystery, romance, paranormal, (view spoiler) it has it all.Atancia isn't really the heroine we all expect. She is shy and timid and pretty much stays that way throughout the book. But her heart is strong. She has so much love to give. And Atancia takes the whole "immortal" thing and adds a different twist to it than what Evermore did.One thing I would have liked to have seen more is description. Clever ways to describe a scene and make me use all five of my senses to actively picture a scene. That's part of what makes up the beauty of a good book. The descriptions I did see was just specific naming of objects like."A Rosewood vanity table sits on the far corner away from the windows."But what I want to see is something more like."The warm soothing rays of sunlight flow through the windows and immerse the room in it's glory. The sun's soporific tendrils graze against the surface of my skin, kissing my cheeks like a welcoming mother."Paint me a word picture!!! :)There wasn't much character building on Ben as much as there was for Nana, but I could kind of get a feel for his character as the story progressed. I got to know Ben at the same time Atancia did. And maybe Wren Figueiro did that stylistically. And there was quite the plot twist that after I thought I finally knew who and how Ben was personally, the rug is pulled from under me and I am left disoriented and not knowing what to believe.Nana is the parental unit of Atancia. And though they aren't related by blood, they love each other like family. I could really get a sense of Nana and I received a kind of maternal feel from her. There's not much more to say about her except that she is a highly pivotal character and that she makes a good adoptive mother/grandmother.The romance between Atancia and Ben was charged with energy and passion. It kept me begging for more. (view spoiler) and there were the occasional "AAWWWW" moments after that.The book lacked action. Something I was getting used to in reading your average YA novel. But just because it lacked action doesn't mean it lacked plot.One thing that did keep me kind of unsure was that I couldn't tell what was the main focus of the book. The romance, or the plot. They seemed to be neck in neck. One chapter it was all about plot progression, and the next was about the passionate romance between Atty and Ben. But I just tend to over analyze and be picky on books.I can easily see this book to be a best seller. I highly recommend this book to YA fans who want a nice story without all the choppy story line of action fight scenes. But don't misinterpret my words. The lack of action in no way lessens the AWESOMENESS of this book. I would give it 3.5 but since I can't I rounded up.