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3.9 AVERAGE
3.9 AVERAGE
3.5. There were just some things that bugged me. And places I wanted more. But good overall.
I knew I would either really like this book or not be able to finish it. Unfortunately, the latter was the one it turned out to be. First, I got bored around page fifty, so I thought to skip ahead a little bit to when the action started happening. I realized then that I hadn't missed all that much. As I kept reading for about twenty pages, though, I realized that I didn't really want to go on. I had completely lost interest in the book entirely.
It had potential to be a good book, but it just didn't do anything for me. Overall, I think I quit somewhere around page 110.
March 20 - 23, 2023: Rereading before book 6 release. Still love it!
July 22 - 25, 2016: Still so, so good!
April 21 - 25, 2015: Couldn't put it down! So, so good! Have to admit I was put off by the version of the cover with the people on it, but I'm super glad I decided to read it anyway!
July 22 - 25, 2016: Still so, so good!
April 21 - 25, 2015: Couldn't put it down! So, so good! Have to admit I was put off by the version of the cover with the people on it, but I'm super glad I decided to read it anyway!
This book surprisingly kept my interest - I kept wanting more and more. As I got toward the end I could not put the book down. At first I was weary of the book, since it was my first venture into a modern YA story; well first YA as an adult.
I'll definitely be reading the rest!
I'll definitely be reading the rest!
4 Stars
Evie has the prefect life, she's rich, is dating the senior football superstar and is popular at school. But Evie has a secret. She just spent the summer in the loony bin. Now starting her Jr year and hopefully vision free, Evie has another problem, Jackson a Cajun from the bayou, who is everything she doesn't like but has a startling attraction too. And the feel is mutual. However Evie's visions come true and she finds herself in a very different post apocalyptic world where Jackson is her only survival, monsters are behind every corner and Evie my be the worst horror yet.
I liked Evie from the get go. She is a little prejudiced, entitled and snooty. But most of it is a shield because she is terrified that she is going crazy. I felt that I did understand her. She was pretty normal, until the world ended anyway.
The whole concept is based on Tarot. Evie is the Empress which is a card. So it looks like it will become a show down between the cards. However, Jackson is not a card which throws a wrench in things. There must be a sequel.
Evie has the prefect life, she's rich, is dating the senior football superstar and is popular at school. But Evie has a secret. She just spent the summer in the loony bin. Now starting her Jr year and hopefully vision free, Evie has another problem, Jackson a Cajun from the bayou, who is everything she doesn't like but has a startling attraction too. And the feel is mutual. However Evie's visions come true and she finds herself in a very different post apocalyptic world where Jackson is her only survival, monsters are behind every corner and Evie my be the worst horror yet.
I liked Evie from the get go. She is a little prejudiced, entitled and snooty. But most of it is a shield because she is terrified that she is going crazy. I felt that I did understand her. She was pretty normal, until the world ended anyway.
The whole concept is based on Tarot. Evie is the Empress which is a card. So it looks like it will become a show down between the cards. However, Jackson is not a card which throws a wrench in things. There must be a sequel.
2021 review:
Enjoyable read, but I won't buy the sequel.
I was especially annoyed by the interactions between Evie and Jackson. Very clear case of: open/honest communication would have fixed some stuff.
Enjoyable read, but I won't buy the sequel.
I was especially annoyed by the interactions between Evie and Jackson. Very clear case of: open/honest communication would have fixed some stuff.
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This book is sexy. There, I said it.
I met Kresley Cole at a Book Festival where she talked about this book and I thought it sounded cool. Then kind of forgot about it. I saw it later at B&N and recognized the cover so I picked it up to look at the first chapters and such.
The voice grabbed me from the first lines. It was so haunting and so creepy and I just needed to know more. I’m a sucker for unreliable narrators, let me tell you. Then it switched to Evie, who I really liked, and was also part unreliable.
Evie was a great heroine. She was normal and relatable, kind of like I imagine I would be if I’d survived the apocalypse—that is, totally clueless. What I love about Evie is that she was scared, thought she was going half-crazy, her whole world had changed, half of it now dead—but she still held her own. She survived. She may have been ignorant and naive, but she made do.
Any main character that can do that without collapsing into a pool of nerves is my type of character. She wasn’t the typical badass, but she was badass nonetheless. And I didn’t agree with all of her choices, but it showed she wasn’t perfect and I liked her more for it.
Her unlikely companion and pretty much the original reason I thought this book sounded good is a Cajun boy from the wrong side of basically everything. Jack Daniels was just fantastic. Major props to Kresley Cole for writing a character that could make my heart race in a few words.
deer gawd was he hot.
Swooning aside, I’ll be the first to say that Jack had some issues. Overprotective. Macho. A bit of a bully. What surprised me most, though, was that I liked him in spite of all that. Jack was an asshole and wonderfully characterized, and I didn’t feel like the book was telling me this was ‘ok’. I’m interested to see how the next book deals with this anyway, because of events that would be too spoilery to share.
Anyway, so you have these main characters and the rest of the gang (Matthew baby you are my favorite character) placed against the backdrop of a post-apocalyptic world that nobody quite understands, with people who claim to be the major Arcana from Tarot cards and have creepy, strange powers to back that up.
I will say, though, whilst the post-apocalyptic events are fascinating, you don’t get to that until about Chapter 13. I didn’t think this was an issue, since I liked getting to know Evie and Jackson and their lives before shit went down, but it does make for a slower start after the seriously chilling prologue.
I didn’t think I would like this book, honestly, especially not nearly as much as I did. But it flipped my expectations around and now I can’t wait for the sequel, which is coming out not soon enough.
POISON PRINCESS was like all the best things of sexytimes and horror stories (mostly sexytimes). I mean, honestly, what’s not to love?
This book is sexy. There, I said it.
I met Kresley Cole at a Book Festival where she talked about this book and I thought it sounded cool. Then kind of forgot about it. I saw it later at B&N and recognized the cover so I picked it up to look at the first chapters and such.
The voice grabbed me from the first lines. It was so haunting and so creepy and I just needed to know more. I’m a sucker for unreliable narrators, let me tell you. Then it switched to Evie, who I really liked, and was also part unreliable.
Evie was a great heroine. She was normal and relatable, kind of like I imagine I would be if I’d survived the apocalypse—that is, totally clueless. What I love about Evie is that she was scared, thought she was going half-crazy, her whole world had changed, half of it now dead—but she still held her own. She survived. She may have been ignorant and naive, but she made do.
Any main character that can do that without collapsing into a pool of nerves is my type of character. She wasn’t the typical badass, but she was badass nonetheless. And I didn’t agree with all of her choices, but it showed she wasn’t perfect and I liked her more for it.
Her unlikely companion and pretty much the original reason I thought this book sounded good is a Cajun boy from the wrong side of basically everything. Jack Daniels was just fantastic. Major props to Kresley Cole for writing a character that could make my heart race in a few words.
deer gawd was he hot.
Swooning aside, I’ll be the first to say that Jack had some issues. Overprotective. Macho. A bit of a bully. What surprised me most, though, was that I liked him in spite of all that. Jack was an asshole and wonderfully characterized, and I didn’t feel like the book was telling me this was ‘ok’. I’m interested to see how the next book deals with this anyway, because of events that would be too spoilery to share.
Anyway, so you have these main characters and the rest of the gang (Matthew baby you are my favorite character) placed against the backdrop of a post-apocalyptic world that nobody quite understands, with people who claim to be the major Arcana from Tarot cards and have creepy, strange powers to back that up.
I will say, though, whilst the post-apocalyptic events are fascinating, you don’t get to that until about Chapter 13. I didn’t think this was an issue, since I liked getting to know Evie and Jackson and their lives before shit went down, but it does make for a slower start after the seriously chilling prologue.
I didn’t think I would like this book, honestly, especially not nearly as much as I did. But it flipped my expectations around and now I can’t wait for the sequel, which is coming out not soon enough.
POISON PRINCESS was like all the best things of sexytimes and horror stories (mostly sexytimes). I mean, honestly, what’s not to love?