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A review by _taylor_pierce
The Life of Anna: The Complete Dark Story by Marissa Honeycutt
5.0
Okay so this book, The Life of Anna, is about Anna (obviously the main character). She is introduced to us at 16 years old and I mean right from the beginning of the first chapter I read I was like wtf are they doing to this poor girl. I won’t spoil anything but essentially, Anna’s parents were killed in a car accident when she was 11 years old. She then goes to live with a man she calls “Uncle Jack” (although there is no family relation and I do not believe he was a close friend of her parents so idk how that happened) anyway she is living with Jack and sometimes his best friend would come over and she called him “Uncle Devin”. Now this is a dark dark romance so I will let you infer from that what you will. She does not remain…innocent.
Anna becomes a slave to this upper-echelon society for the powerful leaders and such of the world. It is literally a world-wide society with members everywhere. However, Anna is special because she is half-immortal (I’m talking like guardian angel Gabriel immortal) that’s not who her father was but that’s the only guardian angel I could think of off the top of my head. So she has special powers of persuasion.. if she was left on her own and could grow into her own person she would be very powerful and well desired. However, if she were to be corrupted from a young age…someone could take that power for themselves…if you see where I’m going with this.
Anyway, Anna suffers and when I say suffer I mean most of the time when I was reading I wanted to cover my eyes like you would in a horror movie but I couldn’t (because obviously it is a book). I settled for reading from my peripheral vision so I could gain some distance because its brutal. I’m not gonna lie. Its harsh. Like worse than Haunting/Hunting Adeline.
But it is so good too. The author writes Anna so well…to where you actually feel a connection to her. I was moved by her many times to tears and that like NEVER happens for me in these books. However in this book, I love the relationship between Anna and several of her…”friends?” Idk what to call them. The book goes through 10 years of her life; starting when she’s 16 and ending when she’s 26.
I’m a stickler for my endings. I hate when they drag on and are just fluff because everything got resolved 3 chapters before the end of the book. This book, however, had me on the edge of my seat. The pages were dwindling, I was 98% through and still didn’t know how it was going to end. Amazing. I loved it.
Anna becomes a slave to this upper-echelon society for the powerful leaders and such of the world. It is literally a world-wide society with members everywhere. However, Anna is special because she is half-immortal (I’m talking like guardian angel Gabriel immortal) that’s not who her father was but that’s the only guardian angel I could think of off the top of my head. So she has special powers of persuasion.. if she was left on her own and could grow into her own person she would be very powerful and well desired. However, if she were to be corrupted from a young age…someone could take that power for themselves…if you see where I’m going with this.
Anyway, Anna suffers and when I say suffer I mean most of the time when I was reading I wanted to cover my eyes like you would in a horror movie but I couldn’t (because obviously it is a book). I settled for reading from my peripheral vision so I could gain some distance because its brutal. I’m not gonna lie. Its harsh. Like worse than Haunting/Hunting Adeline.
But it is so good too. The author writes Anna so well…to where you actually feel a connection to her. I was moved by her many times to tears and that like NEVER happens for me in these books. However in this book, I love the relationship between Anna and several of her…”friends?” Idk what to call them. The book goes through 10 years of her life; starting when she’s 16 and ending when she’s 26.
I’m a stickler for my endings. I hate when they drag on and are just fluff because everything got resolved 3 chapters before the end of the book. This book, however, had me on the edge of my seat. The pages were dwindling, I was 98% through and still didn’t know how it was going to end. Amazing. I loved it.