Series: The Eternal Ones
Publication date: August 10, 2010
Publisher: Razorbill
ISBN-13: 9781595143082
Synopsis
The story focuses on 17 year old Haven Moore who has had strange
visions all her life, this visions are mainly about a man called Ethan, after
fighting to control her visions so her overbearing grandmother doesn't get on
the way of her plans and decided to cancel her plans to leave for New York, but
things don't go as planned.
Haven's visions get stronger after seeing Iain Morrow a well-known
millionaire playboy that is now a suspect for murder on TV, the lack of control
over her visions will soon be the least of her problems because the whole town
now believes that Haven is possessed by a demon. With the town against her and
the prophecy that Leah (a strange classmate of Haven's) has about the dangers
of staying in town Haven decides to leave town and head to New York to find
Iain Morrow whom she thinks is the Ethan she's kept on seeing all her
life.
Her other reason for going to New York is that the Ourobouros
Society, a society that is said to help people that remember their past lives.
Soon she discovers that things aren't always what they seem and now she must
decide in who she can trust for both the Ourobouros Society and Iain Morrow are
not showing her the whole picture.
Review:
I like the main theme of the book that is past life loves trying
to get back together, the mysterious murders and the chase after the truth for
Haven. I didn't feel that I got bored while reading it, but for my taste it
lacked in story and it focused too much on Havens self-created drama.
Haven doesn't seem able to make up her mind (for me that's the
self-created drama) every time she decided that she will believe in someone a
couple of pages later she start to doubt herself; most of the time it's all in
her head, and instead of focusing on keeping the story moving the author
thought it more entertaining to keep us in the dark with what was happening all
around Heaven to focus on her naivety and self-doubting.
I believe that if the story would have keep moving or at least
tried to focused from time to time on the other character such as Iain Morrow
the possible reincarnation of Ethan, Beau the gay best friend of Haven who is
tons of fun to read, or the strange yet adorable Leah whom gives strange
prophecy's to Haven in hopes that they will help her and hopefully keep her
safe.
Rating:
