From Goodreads: 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.
My Rating: 4 hearts
Thoughts
on the Novel: Although I enjoyed Julie Kagawa’s The Immortal Rules last
year, it took me quite a while to get into the story because I found the first
half kind of slow, especially when Allie was on the run by herself. Thankfully,
it didn’t take that long for things to become interesting in The Eternity Cure.
While I continued to like both Allie
and Kanin in The Eternity Cure, I also found myself viewing Zeke more
favourably. I think it’s because he stopped seeming like such a goody-goody in
this book.
Another character for whom my
feelings changed was Jackal. Before beginning The Eternity Cure, I vaguely
remembered him as the villain from the previous book. After having Allie spend so
much time with him in this novel, I definitely consider him a memorable
character now due to his sarcastic, witty banter.
I also liked how instead of just
hearing about the vampire hierarchy and politics, we finally get to see it in
action. When Allie goes into the Inner City to rescue Kanin, her experience illuminates how different the life of those living
in the Fringe is compared to that of the vampires and their pets. I’m hoping we
get to see the same in the next novel, using the free humans of Eden as the measure of
comparison.
The Eternity Cure was released by
Harlequin Teen in April 2013.
Comments
About the Cover: I’m not sure how this cover relates to the story.
It also doesn’t match the cover of The Immortal Rules.
In exchange for an honest review, this book was received from the publisher (Harlequin Teen) for free via NetGalley.
