Summary:
New from #1 New York Times bestselling author Meg Cabot, a dark, fantastical story about this world ... and the underworld.
Though she tries returning to the life she knew before the accident, Pierce can't help but feel at once a part of this world, and apart from it. Yet she's never alone . . . because someone is always watching her. Escape from the realm of the dead is impossible when someone there wants you back.
But now she's moved to a new town. Maybe at her new school, she can start fresh. Maybe she can stop feeling so afraid.
Only she can't. Because even here, he finds her. That's how desperately he wants her back. She knows he's no guardian angel, and his dark world isn't exactly heaven, yet she can't stay away ... especially since he always appears when she least expects it, but exactly when she needs him most.
But if she lets herself fall any further, she may just find herself back in the one place she most fears: the Underworld.
Though she tries returning to the life she knew before the accident, Pierce can't help but feel at once a part of this world, and apart from it. Yet she's never alone . . . because someone is always watching her. Escape from the realm of the dead is impossible when someone there wants you back.
But now she's moved to a new town. Maybe at her new school, she can start fresh. Maybe she can stop feeling so afraid.
Only she can't. Because even here, he finds her. That's how desperately he wants her back. She knows he's no guardian angel, and his dark world isn't exactly heaven, yet she can't stay away ... especially since he always appears when she least expects it, but exactly when she needs him most.
But if she lets herself fall any further, she may just find herself back in the one place she most fears: the Underworld.
(Quoted from goodreads.com)
Thoughts:
So so so nerve-wrecking! In a good way of course. I thought I couldn't make through the first 5 chapters, but I did. So glad I did.
Meg Cabot has a way to pull you in to her novel. Confusing but not to the extent that you'd want to burn the book. It's the kind of confusing that makes you wanna read more. Since a very long time, I'd never begged myself to read faster to grasp the full detail. How Pierce died. Why and how did she revive? Who is her guardian angel? How did he end up to be a protector in the death realm?
Pierce isn't bound to the underworld. She is in love with the one who rules the underworld, and she has to live there, to protect herself, her lover, her family and friends from the worse non-destructible enemies, the Furies, who would kill anyone who gets in their way. A few had already died for her.
It's so nerve-wrecking to me because I know yet I don't know the whole novel. I can't even predict any twists! Accurately speaking, my mind is twirling from all the info that I don't even have any space left to think. It's like everything just bam bam bam into my head.
I decided that I do like John despite all his job scopes. It's amazing to see how he, more than a century old, tried to change because he met Pierce. He's a changed man. One thing is this series, I almost died from curiosity because I didn't get to know his background till book 2 and it's not even the whole deal.
Major *thumbs up* on this series! Read it and you'll know what I'm saying. It's a little hard in the beginning, like reading detective stories, but at the end you'll be like 'This is so smacking ass smart plot'.
x,
bookverie ♡
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