Title: The Eternity Cure (Blood of Eden #2)
Author: Julie Kagawa
by Harlequin Teen
Pages: 428
Publication: April 23rd 2013
Even as Allie faces shocking revelations and heartbreak like she's never known, a new strain of the Red Lung virus that decimated humanity is rising to threaten human and vampire alike."
Author: Julie Kagawa
by Harlequin Teen
Pages: 428
Publication: April 23rd 2013
"Allison Sekemoto has vowed to rescue her creator, Kanin, who is being held hostage and tortured by the psychotic vampire Sarren. The call of blood leads her back to the beginning - New Covington and the Fringe, and a vampire prince who wants her dead yet may become her wary ally.
Even as Allie faces shocking revelations and heartbreak like she's never known, a new strain of the Red Lung virus that decimated humanity is rising to threaten human and vampire alike."
My review:
"I don't believe in fate," he said carefully, "but... I do believe everything happens for a reason. That there is some plan, some meaning to this darkness we live in."
Julie Kagawa, you did it again. You held my heart in your fist and masterfully let me see the lights of paradise just so you could, in the end, beautifully destroy me. You ripped my heart in tiny little pieces and I'm still here, days after ending The Eternity Cure, trying to hold on to sanity. Believe me, after what you did at the end... I'm not sure I'll be able to breath normally until I have the third book of the trilogy in my hands. I need it so bad it hurts, but I'll wait, I'll be patient and you'll let me have what I'm yearning for, right? RIGHT?
If you read The Immortal Rules than you know that we were left with an Allie starting a new quest in order to free her sire from the evil-sociopath-vampire-master Sarren, completely alone, full of sorrow for what - and who - she left behind in Eden but determined to keep her promise and find Kanin through the blood bond that she shares with him. "Blood calls blood like sirens in the night", but what when you follow the wrong path? That's what happens when Allie finds Jackal, her blood brother and rider king from the first book that will help her find their Master - at one condition that I won't spoil for you - and will go back with her to New Covington, where everything started and everything is supposed to end... where they'll find someone who shouldn't have been there at all and a city were everything is slowly dying.
If you read The Immortal Rules than you know that we were left with an Allie starting a new quest in order to free her sire from the evil-sociopath-vampire-master Sarren, completely alone, full of sorrow for what - and who - she left behind in Eden but determined to keep her promise and find Kanin through the blood bond that she shares with him. "Blood calls blood like sirens in the night", but what when you follow the wrong path? That's what happens when Allie finds Jackal, her blood brother and rider king from the first book that will help her find their Master - at one condition that I won't spoil for you - and will go back with her to New Covington, where everything started and everything is supposed to end... where they'll find someone who shouldn't have been there at all and a city were everything is slowly dying.
The Eternity Cure confirms what I already thought while reading The Immortal Rules: right now Blood of Eden is one of the most amazing vampire series out there, and the more I get to know this post-apocalyctic world, the more I get to love these awesome characters and their stories. I feel a connection with them all thanks to Kagawa's brilliant writing and the way she pulls at my strings. She just has this way with words, and I knew even before starting reading that this book would have been good, but damn... this good? Consider me even more HOOKED than before.
"The requiem has started, and when the last melody plays, the only applause will be sweet, eternal silence."
I loved the start and what came next, the heart-pounding scenes that instantly had me, those heart-melting moments (the piano scene... SOBS, I love it so much) where I wanted nothing more than swoon and squeel like crazy, that feeling of dread when something bad happened and the only way of knowing what would be of Allie, Jackal, Kanin, Zeke - everyone, was reading, and reading, and reading... Until the end. Until that terrible, heart-shattering, sadistic, unexpected yet PERFECT ending.
I have to admit, I didn't really believe that The Eternity Cure would have ended with a cliffhanger (ah-ah. Silly me). Now I look back and think of how foolish I've been, how naively I kept thinking that it couldn't get any worst than The Immortal Rules, but I was wrong. I was so wrong... I just couldn't imagine what Julie Kagawa was planning for us all. She let me taste the nectar of the gods and then she stole it from me, leaving me with nothing.
"It's not the physical scars that are the most painful."
I was left numb, all my feelings drained, and I now live with the only purpose of waiting patiently...
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| "PATIENTLY"... |
"Only death will take me away from you, vampire girl."
Thanks to NetGalley and Harlequin Teen for providing me with an early copy of this book!
My Rating: 5 of 5 hearts.
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Italian review - qui la recensione in italiano.
"Non credo nel destino," disse con cautela, "ma... Credo che tutto accada per una ragione. Che ci sia qualcosa, che quest'oscurità in cui viviamo abbia un significato."
Julie Kagawa, lo hai fatto ancora. Hai tenuto il mio cuore nel palmo della tua mano e mi hai fatto vedere il paradiso - diavolo, che paradiso... - solo per potermi, alla fine, distruggere. Mi hai strappato il cuore in tanti piccoli pezzetti che ancora sto cercando di rimettere insieme dopo giorni e giorni dalla lettura. Credimi, dopo quel finale... non sono sicura riuscirò a riprendere fiato finché non avrò il terzo libro tra le mie manine. Ne ho bisogno così tanto da star male, ma sarò paziente... aspetterò... e tu mi lascerai avere ciò che desidero, vero? VERO?
