Review: Perpetual by Michaela Debelius
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 2, 2013
The review was originally posted at Library Cat book blog.“My name is Mercy Green. I have black hair, blue eyes, and a jaded outlook of life. Having lived to see the turn of the century twice tends to do that to a person. I am no superhero. I can’t predict the future or see through walls. My talents don’t include lifting cars off a dying man’s chest or deflecting bullets with my bare hands. The only ability I do possess is my inability to die. I still eat, sleep, and breathe, and although none of this is necessary for sustaining life, I get rather irritable when I have to go without. I bleed, as any decent person would, but the healing process is greatly accelerated.”At first sight, Mercy Green is ordinary nineteen-years-old girl. She volunteers at Tender Paws, a local animal rescue, and has a secret crash on Adam, an artist, a young man who also works there. But, what other people don’t know is that Mercy is immortal. She was bitten many years ago, and since then, she doesn’t get older. She doesn’t connect with people much, I mean, they all die and she is left there all alone. The only thing that Mercy really cares about are animals. She owns a dog and a cat, both rescued from the shelter. When Adam breaks up with his girlfriend, she (his girlfriend) takes his paintings with her. Adam asks Mercy to help him to bring them back. So they both broke into her house and took the paintings back. Not being able to prove the robbery, Adam’s ex attacks again, this time burning the house, with Adam and Mercy inside. They barely got out of there alive. But was Adam’s ex responsible for the attack, or Mercy has been hunted?Running away, Mercy meets Nick, another immortal, who lives with two friends of his, also immortals. Mercy has been running away from other immortals her entire life. They are mean and selfish and bad persons. But these guys are something different, a small pack, something that she can call a family.When Ben, one of the pack, disappears, it’s all clear that someone is after them. Someone hunts immortals. Who, and why?I really enjoyed the story for Mercy Green. I really liked her as a character. Her conversations with Nick made me laugh. They were like older sister and younger brother. They both come from different centuries and their way of talking is very different, but that is what makes them so unique. I could also see why Mercy loves Adam. He likes the life itself, he believes in humanity, he believes that there is hope for this world. That is something that Mercy lost long time ago, faith and hope. Adam is the only one who can see real Mercy, he trusts her no matter what. It doesn’t matter if she is human or not.There was a great twist in the story ( I won’t reveal it) when I thought that all this was going to go to a very different direction. Unfortunately, it didn’t happen. It left me a little bit disappointed.Perpetual is not just a story for immortals. It’s a story for life and love and faith and hope. I liked the style of writing and vividly described characters. Overall, it is a book worth for your time.My opinion: 4 / 5