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Poison Princess
by Kresley Cole
I have to admit that I was wary of this book after the first few chapters. There were a lot of parallels to Twilight that had me a little skeptical. The heroine, Evie, is the popular girl at school who just returned from a summer at a psychiatric hospital and is ready for her first day back to school. A new bridge across the bayou brings a group of motorcycle riding, smoking, drinking, criminal looking Cajuns from the other side of the bayou to enroll in her school. One of the Cajuns is Jack Deveaux, who glowers at Evie every chance he gets and constantly picks fights with her preppy boyfriend. They even get paired together for a history project. You can see why I was worried.
The world building is what really drew me in to this story (after the prologue of high school drama). Twenty-two teens are reincarnations of the Tarot's Major Arcana, with their own powers and their own agendas. There's a lot left undiscovered about the Arcana in this book, but there's some very interesting set-up and I was so excited about it I jumped immediately into the next book.
The world building is what really drew me in to this story (after the prologue of high school drama). Twenty-two teens are reincarnations of the Tarot's Major Arcana, with their own powers and their own agendas. There's a lot left undiscovered about the Arcana in this book, but there's some very interesting set-up and I was so excited about it I jumped immediately into the next book.