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breezy610's review
3.0
it was really different than what i usually read. it was a nice change to learn that the main female chaacter takens over the body everything time she is re-born. But she gets too close when she is thrust into a new family in search of their lost daughter.
ge0rgiahunt's review
adventurous
hopeful
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
eghimire_'s review against another edition
1.0
F.A.I.L.
Major time.
The beginning of Mercy is so confuzzling...just like the rest of the story.
What you read from the blurb about the book will tell you everything that happens in Mercy. Seriously. Even the ending was a fail. I really wish I didn't waste my night reading this and not sleeping. I don't know why I forced myself to read this.
Now on to the story...
So, Mercy is an exiled angel and after very confusing inner dialog, we find out Mercy in the body of this really skinny girl named Carmen. They're in this town I don't really care about and she lives with a family who's daughter was taken away and never found, but the older brother Ryan thinks otherwise. Blah, blah, blah. Yeah, they look for her and after another girl gets missing, they find out who the creep is. He didn't really have any reasons for taking the girls and we don't find out his real reasons other than he wants them to sing or something.
Any who...
Not worth the time. But its your choice if you wanna read a confuzzling book.
Major time.
The beginning of Mercy is so confuzzling...just like the rest of the story.
What you read from the blurb about the book will tell you everything that happens in Mercy. Seriously. Even the ending was a fail. I really wish I didn't waste my night reading this and not sleeping. I don't know why I forced myself to read this.
Now on to the story...
So, Mercy is an exiled angel and after very confusing inner dialog, we find out Mercy in the body of this really skinny girl named Carmen. They're in this town I don't really care about and she lives with a family who's daughter was taken away and never found, but the older brother Ryan thinks otherwise. Blah, blah, blah. Yeah, they look for her and after another girl gets missing, they find out who the creep is. He didn't really have any reasons for taking the girls and we don't find out his real reasons other than he wants them to sing or something.
Any who...
Not worth the time. But its your choice if you wanna read a confuzzling book.
good1kenz's review
4.0
I don't even know where to begin. This book is complex and wonderful and thought provoking when it comes to the main character.
Her name is Mercy, or at least that's what she calls herself. She remembers bits and pieces of who she used to be, but now she spends all of her time as someone else. Body jumping, so to speak. Helping them through their problems before moving on to the next.
When Mercy becomes Carmen, she bites off a bit more than she can chew.
Carmen is staying with a family who have been through the most difficult of times, losing a daughter. And Ryan(her house brother) doesn't think his sister is dead.
Ryan is beautiful and lost and Mercy loves beautiful things. just ask her, she'll tell you.
This journey had me at the edge of my seat the whole ride
Her name is Mercy, or at least that's what she calls herself. She remembers bits and pieces of who she used to be, but now she spends all of her time as someone else. Body jumping, so to speak. Helping them through their problems before moving on to the next.
When Mercy becomes Carmen, she bites off a bit more than she can chew.
Carmen is staying with a family who have been through the most difficult of times, losing a daughter. And Ryan(her house brother) doesn't think his sister is dead.
Ryan is beautiful and lost and Mercy loves beautiful things. just ask her, she'll tell you.
This journey had me at the edge of my seat the whole ride
alboyer6's review
3.0
This projected first book in a series started it off with a bang. Zombies were the new vampire and it seems now that angels are the new zombies oddly enough... I really enjoyed this new twist to the idea. Mercy doesn't remember much of her past other than she keeps waking up in the bodies of a variety of young women who have some sort of problem in their life. While she struggles with adapting the each new life she also ends up affecting the lives the young women that entered. Carmen is a high schooler with an amazing voice. She is a retiring sort that has to deal with a rival singer who is also a bit of a mean girl. While training she is staying with a family whose daughter disappeared two years before though her brother has never given up. But Mercy can sense people's true natures and is determined to help find the missing. Fun book that really left me wanting the next one.
zippy_julz's review
4.0
Mercy wakes up on a bus in the body of a stranger. She ends up in 'paradise' and the family that she is staying with have a very sad recent history. This story is about the mystery of who Mercy really is and why she finds herself in other people's bodies over and over again. It is also about the mystery of what happened to the family member who has disappeared from the host family of the girl whose body she inhabits. I really enjoyed Rebecca Lim's writing style and although the subplot of Mercy's personal story is vague and not really answered in this book it kept me intrigued enough to want to read the next book to discover her secret. That being said. The mystery and romance of the host family's history is well written and concludes the book well enough to allow for the intriguing subplot that is the mystery of 'Mercy'.
villianess's review
5.0
This book is a page turner for sure. It draws you in from the first chapter. Mercy wakes up in Carmen's body as she has other, not knowing who she is, what she is suppose to be doing, or how she got there. As her surroundings begin to unfold and she takes more control of Carmen's body, she realizes that not only is she a great singer with a choir but that she can make Carmen's voice so much better. Mercy and the choir are staying with families while on rehearsal for a big choir event. Mercy finds out that she isn't the only one that is missing. The family that she is staying with has lost a daughter, Lauren. Lauren's twin brother doesn't believe she is dead and will do anything to find her.
Can Mercy help Ryan find his sister, give confidence to the soul of Carmen, and find out more about why she is going into others bodies before it happens again? Read Mercy to find out.
Can Mercy help Ryan find his sister, give confidence to the soul of Carmen, and find out more about why she is going into others bodies before it happens again? Read Mercy to find out.
fishgirl182's review against another edition
3.0
his book had an interesting premise but, unfortunately it falls short of its potential. The first 50 pages or so of the book was slow and I was afraid I was never going to get into it. Luckily that wasn't the case and the book gained momentum. Mercy, a fallen angel we discover, has been doomed to wander earth flitting in and out of different bodies for short periods of time. Like Sam Beckett in Quantum Leap, Mercy has no say in when she comes into or leaves a body. The problem is that she has no real recollection of who she is or what she is meant, if anything, to accomplish while she is in these women's bodies. She remembers bits of her previous hosts but her only real connection to her true self is Luc, who appears to her in her dreams. All we know is that Mercy is drawn to him and is trying to get back to him but that he also had a role in her being cast out to earth. What role, we don't know, leaving him morally ambiguous. There is a mystery element to the book as Mercy and her new host Carmen end up in the home of a family whose young daughter, Lauren, was kidnapped two years earlier. Thanks to her unique gift of being able to probe people's minds with a touch, Mercy is able to see the visions that Ryan, Lauren's twin brother, has of Lauren and she believes him when he tells her that Lauren is still alive. She agrees to help him look for her, despite Luc's warnings that to get back to him, she should do nothing. I quite like the dynamic that Ryan and Mercy have, their dialogue the sort of bantering antagonism that I so enjoy.
I think the main problem with the book is Mercy herself. She's just not very likeable. Without any context to her circumstance, the little we know about her comes from her own memories and feelings. Since she doesn't know much about her past, she and the reader have very little to go on. We do get the idea that she may not have been the nicest person in her real form and that she doesn't care what other people think about her (this latter repeated several times throughout the book). Though she seems callous at times, we can see that Mercy is trying to do good (i.e. helping Ryan, standing up for Carmen) but, even then, her motives are unclear. Part of the problem may also be that, as this is the first book of a series, the author is holding back key pieces of information for the sequels. I think if she had just given us a little bit more it would have made this book much better. Perhaps her intention was to draw the reader into reading the second novel. If so, it worked. I just wish it hadn't been to the detriment of this novel.
I think the main problem with the book is Mercy herself. She's just not very likeable. Without any context to her circumstance, the little we know about her comes from her own memories and feelings. Since she doesn't know much about her past, she and the reader have very little to go on. We do get the idea that she may not have been the nicest person in her real form and that she doesn't care what other people think about her (this latter repeated several times throughout the book). Though she seems callous at times, we can see that Mercy is trying to do good (i.e. helping Ryan, standing up for Carmen) but, even then, her motives are unclear. Part of the problem may also be that, as this is the first book of a series, the author is holding back key pieces of information for the sequels. I think if she had just given us a little bit more it would have made this book much better. Perhaps her intention was to draw the reader into reading the second novel. If so, it worked. I just wish it hadn't been to the detriment of this novel.
laughlinesandliterature's review
3.0
I've clearly read this book at some point before, because I absolutely remembered the ending. That makes it a bit hard to do a first impression review. I will say that the story is intriguing and engaging enough that I wanted to keep going, and I think I must have read this book before the sequels were out, because I'm very happy I could move onto Exile. 3 out of 5 stars.