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A review by tonayo
The Eternity Cure by Julie Kagawa
5.0
As I stare at this review box and try to form coherent sentences, all I can think is WOW. That book...that ENDING...AHHHHH. No I won't spoil anything but holy sh*t that was intense!
The book starts with Allison stalking all over the post-apocalyptic USA looking for Kanin, her vampire sire/fatherish figure, who was captured by the "psycho vamp" Sarren and has been relentlessly tortured. She's been away from Eden, the human-only city free of vampires, for a few months and is determined to move on from Zeke, the boy she came to care for, and the rest of his human party she saw through the gates of Eden. Allison is following this "pull" she feels to Kanin and relying on their blood tie to guide her. Instead of Kanin, she finds Jackal, her blood brother and the Raider King of Old Chicago who tried to kill her the last time they met. Needing each others help, they team up to try and find Kanin...and a hidden lab in D.C. that was dedicated to finding a cure to the virus that desecrated humanity.
That is the most basic plot I can give without spoilers. Kagawa takes you on a crazy ride. You will laugh (thanks to Jackal and his uncanny witt; I seriously laughed out loud while reading this and got strange looks from people but I digress), you will gasp and you will feel all gooey until Ms. Kagawa strangles your heart and laughs in your face.
A brief note on the characters:
Allison was a kick ass heroine who was actually not afraid to rip people's throats out. No cowering in the corner for this girl. Kanin wasn't in much of the book but he's got the whole serious-but-tortured-but-good-hearted thing going on. Jackal (as forementioned) is the comedic relief you need in a world that's pretty much gone to hell. Zeke is a fantabulous love interest and if you don't fall for him a little than your insane. Sarren is the ultimate villian...gives me shivers just thinking about him. There were other characters too, like Salazar the Prince of New Covington and Stick who just makes you want to throttle him in this book. I'd say all the characters were well fleshed out and real.
THE ETERNAL CURE was an amazing sequel, I would say maybe even better than its excellent predecessor, and now I'm going to spend the next hours of my life searching for information on the third book in this outstanding series. Read it if you haven't and don't say I didn't warn you about the emotional turmoil that is the ending of this book.
The book starts with Allison stalking all over the post-apocalyptic USA looking for Kanin, her vampire sire/fatherish figure, who was captured by the "psycho vamp" Sarren and has been relentlessly tortured. She's been away from Eden, the human-only city free of vampires, for a few months and is determined to move on from Zeke, the boy she came to care for, and the rest of his human party she saw through the gates of Eden. Allison is following this "pull" she feels to Kanin and relying on their blood tie to guide her. Instead of Kanin, she finds Jackal, her blood brother and the Raider King of Old Chicago who tried to kill her the last time they met. Needing each others help, they team up to try and find Kanin...and a hidden lab in D.C. that was dedicated to finding a cure to the virus that desecrated humanity.
That is the most basic plot I can give without spoilers. Kagawa takes you on a crazy ride. You will laugh (thanks to Jackal and his uncanny witt; I seriously laughed out loud while reading this and got strange looks from people but I digress), you will gasp and you will feel all gooey until Ms. Kagawa strangles your heart and laughs in your face.
A brief note on the characters:
Allison was a kick ass heroine who was actually not afraid to rip people's throats out. No cowering in the corner for this girl. Kanin wasn't in much of the book but he's got the whole serious-but-tortured-but-good-hearted thing going on. Jackal (as forementioned) is the comedic relief you need in a world that's pretty much gone to hell. Zeke is a fantabulous love interest and if you don't fall for him a little than your insane. Sarren is the ultimate villian...gives me shivers just thinking about him. There were other characters too, like Salazar the Prince of New Covington and Stick who just makes you want to throttle him in this book. I'd say all the characters were well fleshed out and real.
THE ETERNAL CURE was an amazing sequel, I would say maybe even better than its excellent predecessor, and now I'm going to spend the next hours of my life searching for information on the third book in this outstanding series. Read it if you haven't and don't say I didn't warn you about the emotional turmoil that is the ending of this book.