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The Eternity Cure by Julie Kagawa
By: Becky Date: July 26, 2013, 6:37 am
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In The Eternity Cure, Allie is off on a quest to rescue her
mentor Kanin from (cue much-overused-nickname) “Psycho Vamp”
Sarren. Allie is basically following her sire bond (sorry, some
Vampire Diaries terminology creeping in there) like a compass,
trying to locate Kanin before Sarren can break him. Except this
compass actually leads her to find Jackal, and somewhere along
the way the search for Kanin merges with looking for the cure
for a new strain of Red Lung virus.
As exciting and action-packed as this book was, I have to be
completely honest – I didn’t enjoy The Eternity Cure as much as
The Immortal Rules. I still really liked it, but for me, it
definitely suffers from Second Book Syndrome.
Firstly, I really liked the emotional arc of Book 1. I thought
Allie’s struggle to remain ‘human’ despite her new Vampire-ness
was really well done in the first book. And while she still goes
through some of that in The Eternity Cure, we don’t see that
struggle nearly as much. Maybe it was just the nature of her
progress, but still – it seemed like a lot of the heart and
emotionality (is that a word?) that resulted from Allie
protecting Zeke’s group in Book 1 was absent here.
Also, I went into The Eternity Cure expecting to love Jackal,
based on other reviewers’ enjoyment of his snarky attitude. But
for some reason he never clicked for me, and I found myself
being just as annoyed with him as Allie most of the time. I
often felt like he was too obviously The Comic Relief and had
little other purpose. However, after the events at the end of
the book, he’s finally growing on me, and I’m excited to see his
character more in Book 3.
Finally, while the pacing in this book was great, and Kagawa’s
fight scenes continue to be some of my favourites, the plot
itself didn’t really grab me. For some reason it reminded me of
the sort of classic “traveling quest” device used a lot in
fantasy books. You know, Our Hero has to go on a Treacherous
Journey to fulfil his Epic Quest, and along the way there are
many Coincidences that lead to All Plot Points Being Related,
and a Final Confrontation With the Big Baddie at the end. Even
though it was never really predictable per se, I still felt like
it had a very similar feeling to stuff I’ve read before, which
makes me feel kind of “meh” about it, in hindsight.
That being said, I loved the ending. The events that occur in
the last couple chapters gave me ALL THE FEELS. I can’t rate the
rest of the book any higher than 3.5, but I would give the
ending 4.5 stars if I could. There is a GREAT cliff-hanger
(which I kind of saw coming but I don’t care), and it left me
absolutely dying to find out what will happen in Book 3!
Despite my issues with the plot and the emotional side of
things, The Eternity Cure is still an action-packed page-turner
that should satisfy most fans of The Immortal Rules. Zeke and
Allie shippers won’t be disappointed either – I can’t say much
about them except that I love them and I totally ship it. But be
warned – the cliff-hanger will have you clamouring for Book 3!
Romance...Drama. ..Excitement...I t has it all....What will Book
3 be like? I'll be waiting, watching at the edge of my seat. I
can't wait for book 3!
~ Becky
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Re: The Eternity Cure by Julie Kagawa
By: KB Date: July 26, 2013, 6:38 am
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Another very interesting review here, by Becky, our best
reviewer.
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Re: The Eternity Cure by Julie Kagawa
By: Becky Date: July 26, 2013, 7:01 am
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Lol, thanks, best?
Anyway I don't make it a habit of rating books albeit I find
reviewing books interesting :)
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Re: The Eternity Cure by Julie Kagawa
By: KB Date: July 26, 2013, 7:30 am
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[quote author=Becky link=topic=98.msg633#msg633 date=1374840089]
Lol, thanks, best?
Anyway I don't make it a habit of rating books albeit I find
reviewing books interesting :)
[/quote]
That's good.
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