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ambeesbookishpages's review against another edition
I'm really dissapointed, I won't lie about that. I heard such promising things about this book and was pretty sure I was going to like it. I wanted to like Mortal Danger, and at first I did. But then it just got blah. The concept really isn't holding my interest and I wasn't that interested in Edie's pay back. If anything it is halfway through the book and she has done nothing yet.
DNF around: 180
DNF around: 180
hcaticha's review against another edition
So.. I've many other books to read to bother finishing this.
I have so many similarities to the main character, the scientist parents, the suicide attempt, the bullying, the less than satisfactory looks... yet, somehow I couldn't sympathise with her at all.
She didn't felt real, just a one dimensional character without any real thought into it.
I just can't handle that right now.
I'm out.
I have so many similarities to the main character, the scientist parents, the suicide attempt, the bullying, the less than satisfactory looks... yet, somehow I couldn't sympathise with her at all.
She didn't felt real, just a one dimensional character without any real thought into it.
I just can't handle that right now.
I'm out.
shawniebooks's review against another edition
4.0
I've had this autographed book since it came out and never got to it. It's been in my donate pile several times but I always ended up putting it back on the shelf "because it's Ann..." This year I'm trying to read a bunch of my old hardcover and paperbacks to see if I'll keep them and finally felt ready to give it a try. I'm so happy I didn't donate it! I was worried about the teenage angst but I shouldn't have. Ann Aguirre does YA so well. She doesn't write over the top feels and love triangles. I find this Immortal Game world to be very interesting and engaging and look forward to the rest of the trilogy.
sly99's review against another edition
1.0
After reading from 2 reviews that I was following, it should have raised a red flag. Unfortunately, I am stubborn and read it anyway. I read a few chapters and told myself that is more than enough I could bare.
Honestly, I cannot relate to bullying at school or having a clique in school. All along I thought everyone gets along just fine. I am naive that way.
Review: too shallow for my taste. too much cliche
Honestly, I cannot relate to bullying at school or having a clique in school. All along I thought everyone gets along just fine. I am naive that way.
Review: too shallow for my taste. too much cliche
hkhu's review against another edition
2.0
I think, at the end, there was just too much going on in the book, and the message that it seems to be sending (whether the author intended to or not) just isn't one that I agree with.
I thought at first that was going to be a book about making a deal with the devil and exacting revenge (I mean, at least that's what I gleaned from the summary), but the plot, while starting off pretty good, quickly turned into a downward spiral.
1) There is so, so much focus on beauty.
Okay, to be honest, if I had three wishes (called "favors" in the book, but they're pretty much the same) I'd probably want to be prettier, too. And the most appealing way to turn prettier sounds like becoming the "best version" of myself like Edie decided to be changed into.
But here's the thing: even if you somehow turn beautiful overnight, your personality will usually not do a complete 180 to go with it. Edie, however, loses almost all of her confidence issues like that and suddenly knows how to make friends and woo boys like she's been doing it all her life, when in fact, she's spent most of her school life being bullied and quiet.
2) The revenge plot went almost nowhere.
By the end of the book, there really is no solid plan for revenge (at least none that the reader is aware of) and the confrontation Edie has with her bullies is fairly anti-climatic.
Remember how she turned super-gorgeous and lost all confidence issues whatsoever? Apparently, that's enough to get you trust of the people who bullied you and tormented you and did to you the thing that eventually broke you; all without any of the said people thinking that something's off.
3) The paranormal aspect was convoluted and didn't make any sense (at least to me).
We have the mysterious organization that's making all of these things possible for Edie that's run by mythical beings or some type of gods. Then we have Edie having dreams and visions of an oracle, a vampire, and a creepy man with a bag.
That is pretty much all I understood of the paranormal plot, and I couldn't tell you how any of it connected.
4) The bad romance.
Kian has stalked Edie for years for reasons that by the end of the novel are not even touched on. Edie just sort of accepts that he's been keeping tabs on her forever (I think he mentions something he witnessed happen to her in fourth grade) or just pretty much forgets about that crucial fact, probably because Kian is drop dead gorgeous.
She's not even sure if he's helping her or working with aforementioned mysterious organization.
(But's he so pretty and he understands me-)
I finished the book, somehow, and my immediate thought was that I could've spent all that time reading something else. Welp, at least it helped pass the airplane ride.
I thought at first that was going to be a book about making a deal with the devil and exacting revenge (I mean, at least that's what I gleaned from the summary), but the plot, while starting off pretty good, quickly turned into a downward spiral.
1) There is so, so much focus on beauty.
Okay, to be honest, if I had three wishes (called "favors" in the book, but they're pretty much the same) I'd probably want to be prettier, too. And the most appealing way to turn prettier sounds like becoming the "best version" of myself like Edie decided to be changed into.
But here's the thing: even if you somehow turn beautiful overnight, your personality will usually not do a complete 180 to go with it. Edie, however, loses almost all of her confidence issues like that and suddenly knows how to make friends and woo boys like she's been doing it all her life, when in fact, she's spent most of her school life being bullied and quiet.
2) The revenge plot went almost nowhere.
By the end of the book, there really is no solid plan for revenge (at least none that the reader is aware of) and the confrontation Edie has with her bullies is fairly anti-climatic.
Remember how she turned super-gorgeous and lost all confidence issues whatsoever? Apparently, that's enough to get you trust of the people who bullied you and tormented you and did to you the thing that eventually broke you; all without any of the said people thinking that something's off.
3) The paranormal aspect was convoluted and didn't make any sense (at least to me).
We have the mysterious organization that's making all of these things possible for Edie that's run by mythical beings or some type of gods. Then we have Edie having dreams and visions of an oracle, a vampire, and a creepy man with a bag.
That is pretty much all I understood of the paranormal plot, and I couldn't tell you how any of it connected.
4) The bad romance.
Kian has stalked Edie for years for reasons that by the end of the novel are not even touched on. Edie just sort of accepts that he's been keeping tabs on her forever (I think he mentions something he witnessed happen to her in fourth grade) or just pretty much forgets about that crucial fact, probably because Kian is drop dead gorgeous.
She's not even sure if he's helping her or working with aforementioned mysterious organization.
(But's he so pretty and he understands me-)
I finished the book, somehow, and my immediate thought was that I could've spent all that time reading something else. Welp, at least it helped pass the airplane ride.
elcie's review against another edition
4.0
I read Mortal Danger in 2 days, and it ended in such a way that, had the second book in the series been published, I wanted to move on to the next book immediately.
The book is better than what taste the synopsis gives you. 'Revenge is a dish best served cold.', but this is nowhere near the main course, and only the entryway to what's really in the depth of the plot.
Edie, after years of being tortured by bullies who she refers to as 'The Teflon Crew', finds herself, literally, at the edge of her life ready to let it all end.
Only then, at that last moment, a mysterious young man comes to her aid and offers her a whole new life. 3 favors; anything she wishes can be hers, and naturally her first thoughts circle around revenge.
However, this is not a book revolved solely around a girl who gets the opportunity to make those who hurt her so deeply feel exactly what she had had to feel. In fact, she learns that she has a much bigger purpose in 'The Immortal Game', and that her years of being grotesquely bullied were minor plays in the game to get her to accept the offer of 3 favors, and directly enter herself in the play of the game.
The book is better than what taste the synopsis gives you. 'Revenge is a dish best served cold.', but this is nowhere near the main course, and only the entryway to what's really in the depth of the plot.
Edie, after years of being tortured by bullies who she refers to as 'The Teflon Crew', finds herself, literally, at the edge of her life ready to let it all end.
Only then, at that last moment, a mysterious young man comes to her aid and offers her a whole new life. 3 favors; anything she wishes can be hers, and naturally her first thoughts circle around revenge.
However, this is not a book revolved solely around a girl who gets the opportunity to make those who hurt her so deeply feel exactly what she had had to feel. In fact, she learns that she has a much bigger purpose in 'The Immortal Game', and that her years of being grotesquely bullied were minor plays in the game to get her to accept the offer of 3 favors, and directly enter herself in the play of the game.
amym84's review against another edition
This one just didn't hold my attention. I couldn't get past the beginning. I like what I've read of Ann Aguirre's past writing, but this one just didn't work out. Maybe I'll try again, but I have too many other things to read right now too give this time.
talya_'s review against another edition
DNF.
I don't know what Ann Aguirre was trying to get across when writing this book. That beauty is everything? No one will like you unless you're beautiful? Being beautiful makes your life better? Because that's all I got from the little I read of the book.
So we have our main character, Edie. She's ugly and overweight and no one likes her. She's put up with relentless bullying (because she's ugly) for years and she wants it to end. So she decides to commit suicide. But before she can kill herself, some random guy comes up and offers her a deal. Three wishes, anything she wants, instead of killing herself. Which sounds utterly ridiculous to me. Some guy coming up to you, he knows everything about you, he's been stalking you, and you find nothing odd about this? No, her argument is that if he's a psychotic killer, well it doesn't matter because she was planning on dying anyway. No harm in hearing him out.
Cop out. The author just wanted a reason (apparently she didn't didn't rule out stupid ones) for Edie to accept the deal.
So she does and her first wish is to become beautiful. Gasp. Didn't see that coming.
But suddenly, being beautiful changes everything. She had a stutter, she was incredibly shy, she had zero confidence, but suddenly everything changes because she's beautiful. Her stutter magically disappeared, she walks around like she owns the planet, and her confidence is off the charts. And suddenly, she's manipulating people for her own personal gain, because she's pretty and "life is easy for beautiful people." And then after she manipulates people, this is what she thinks:
As triumph washed over me, I also felt like I needed a shower. Do those girls have no souls? I didn’t know if I could do this for long, but it seemed to be second nature for them. They considered their ability to control other people an accessory, like a great purse or a cute pair of shoes.
What? Excuse me? She wasn't forced to manipulate anyone, she chose to, she chose to do the exact same thing as other manipulative girls, but she's going to look down on them? Wonder if THEY have souls?
As soon as I read that, I knew I wouldn't be finishing the book.
But that's not all. Edie meets a shy girl names Vi and decides to take Vi under her wing because she was her before, she wasn't pretty and confident.
I knew this girl. I’d been her this morning. The old Edie never went clothes shopping voluntarily. She let her mother buy things and stick them in her room. She wore whatever she found and tried not to think about how she looked. She avoided mirrors and kept her hair so long, it fell into her face. When she walked down the street, she watched her feet, so she didn’t see scorn flicker in other people’s faces as their eyes slid away. That Edie died on the bridge. I had the freedom to be someone else now, anyone I wanted.
Wow, that's pretty amazing. You turn beautiful and now you're a completely different person who looks down on others for being shy.
“I’m Edie. This is Vi.” I stepped sideways so he could see her since she was hiding behind me. She elbowed me to show she didn’t appreciate the attention.
She squeaked out, “Nice to meet you.”
Come on, Vi. You can do better than that.
This made me laugh. Because of her newfound confidence that comes from her newfound beauty, she's going to look down on someone else for not liking the attention of two random guys suddenly coming out of nowhere and talking to them. Then one of these random guys becomes her boyfriend. Just. Like. That. Pretty people perks.
How did I feel about being eye candy? It was bizarre and slightly unwelcome, not because I didn’t think I was pretty now, but I wasn’t before, and I was still the same person inside.
Oh really? Are you now? Because I specifically recall her referring to herself as The Old Edie and then saying The Old Edie died on that bridge. Every word this girl says is a direct contradiction to something she's previously said/thought. I was sick of it. Sick of being slapped in the face with the thought that pretty people can get anything they want, that life is better if you're pretty, that everything is better if you'd pretty. There's nothing wrong with being pretty, don't get me wrong, but the moral of this story seems to be that surface beauty is everything.
It's a shame-- I liked the cover.
I don't know what Ann Aguirre was trying to get across when writing this book. That beauty is everything? No one will like you unless you're beautiful? Being beautiful makes your life better? Because that's all I got from the little I read of the book.
So we have our main character, Edie. She's ugly and overweight and no one likes her. She's put up with relentless bullying (because she's ugly) for years and she wants it to end. So she decides to commit suicide. But before she can kill herself, some random guy comes up and offers her a deal. Three wishes, anything she wants, instead of killing herself. Which sounds utterly ridiculous to me. Some guy coming up to you, he knows everything about you, he's been stalking you, and you find nothing odd about this? No, her argument is that if he's a psychotic killer, well it doesn't matter because she was planning on dying anyway. No harm in hearing him out.
Cop out. The author just wanted a reason (apparently she didn't didn't rule out stupid ones) for Edie to accept the deal.
So she does and her first wish is to become beautiful. Gasp. Didn't see that coming.
But suddenly, being beautiful changes everything. She had a stutter, she was incredibly shy, she had zero confidence, but suddenly everything changes because she's beautiful. Her stutter magically disappeared, she walks around like she owns the planet, and her confidence is off the charts. And suddenly, she's manipulating people for her own personal gain, because she's pretty and "life is easy for beautiful people." And then after she manipulates people, this is what she thinks:
As triumph washed over me, I also felt like I needed a shower. Do those girls have no souls? I didn’t know if I could do this for long, but it seemed to be second nature for them. They considered their ability to control other people an accessory, like a great purse or a cute pair of shoes.
What? Excuse me? She wasn't forced to manipulate anyone, she chose to, she chose to do the exact same thing as other manipulative girls, but she's going to look down on them? Wonder if THEY have souls?
As soon as I read that, I knew I wouldn't be finishing the book.
But that's not all. Edie meets a shy girl names Vi and decides to take Vi under her wing because she was her before, she wasn't pretty and confident.
I knew this girl. I’d been her this morning. The old Edie never went clothes shopping voluntarily. She let her mother buy things and stick them in her room. She wore whatever she found and tried not to think about how she looked. She avoided mirrors and kept her hair so long, it fell into her face. When she walked down the street, she watched her feet, so she didn’t see scorn flicker in other people’s faces as their eyes slid away. That Edie died on the bridge. I had the freedom to be someone else now, anyone I wanted.
Wow, that's pretty amazing. You turn beautiful and now you're a completely different person who looks down on others for being shy.
“I’m Edie. This is Vi.” I stepped sideways so he could see her since she was hiding behind me. She elbowed me to show she didn’t appreciate the attention.
She squeaked out, “Nice to meet you.”
Come on, Vi. You can do better than that.
This made me laugh. Because of her newfound confidence that comes from her newfound beauty, she's going to look down on someone else for not liking the attention of two random guys suddenly coming out of nowhere and talking to them. Then one of these random guys becomes her boyfriend. Just. Like. That. Pretty people perks.
How did I feel about being eye candy? It was bizarre and slightly unwelcome, not because I didn’t think I was pretty now, but I wasn’t before, and I was still the same person inside.
Oh really? Are you now? Because I specifically recall her referring to herself as The Old Edie and then saying The Old Edie died on that bridge. Every word this girl says is a direct contradiction to something she's previously said/thought. I was sick of it. Sick of being slapped in the face with the thought that pretty people can get anything they want, that life is better if you're pretty, that everything is better if you'd pretty. There's nothing wrong with being pretty, don't get me wrong, but the moral of this story seems to be that surface beauty is everything.
It's a shame-- I liked the cover.
beastreader's review against another edition
2.0
After having just finished reading the Razorland series, I was looking forward to reading this book and new series, Immortal Game. I don't know what happened but this book was not what I was expecting. I was hoping it would be as dark and edgy as the Razorland series. It was not even close. The only real horrific incident that happened is to one of Edie's enemies who had a flesh eating virus and died. One of the other ones disappeared. I know the author can write scarier moments as I saw this happen in the prior series. That series was for the same age group.
So besides the fact that this book was not dark enough, the romance that the author tried to insert in the story was not working for me. Sorry but maybe if the author had built up Edie and Kian's relationship first versus having Edie just instantly fall for Kian and him for her, I might have felt a connection more between them. Also, I did not feel the dislike that Edie had for her fellow students. This is because Edie was making friends with some of her haters. Don't know that I will read the next book in this series.
So besides the fact that this book was not dark enough, the romance that the author tried to insert in the story was not working for me. Sorry but maybe if the author had built up Edie and Kian's relationship first versus having Edie just instantly fall for Kian and him for her, I might have felt a connection more between them. Also, I did not feel the dislike that Edie had for her fellow students. This is because Edie was making friends with some of her haters. Don't know that I will read the next book in this series.