Rating: Four stars
Genre: Romance, Fantasy, New Adult/Young Adult, Paranormal
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Synopsis:
The first time I was declared dead, I lost my past. The second time, I lost my humanity. Now I’m being hunted, and if I die again, my soul is up for forfeit.
After enrolling in Peel Academy, an elite supernatural boarding school on the British Isles, the last of the sirens, Gabrielle Fiori, only wants to fit in. Instead, the elixir meant to awaken her supernatural abilities kills her.
When Gabrielle wakes up in the morgue twelve hours later, something wicked is awakened in her, something even the supernatural community has never seen before. Now the only person who can help her is Andre de Leon, the community's infamous bad boy and the king of vampires.
Yet even his help can’t prevent the repeated attempts on Gabrielle’s life. Someone is after her, and they will stop at nothing to end her short existence. Only Gabrielle cannot let that happen now that her soul hangs in the balance, because she may have met the devil. And he wants her. Bad.
Review
Gabrielle is orphaned at a young age and can't remember much about her birth parents. When she gets accepted into a foreign boarding school as a "legacy", she can't help but think this will lead her to answers about who her parents were. She quickly discovers that the school is for supernaturals, and thus that she is one as well. Undergoing a process called the "Awakening" will activate her powers and determine what kind of supernatural she is. Her Awakening doesn't go as planned. She awakens 3 gifts...vampire, siren, and soul-mate...which apparently means you have a soulmate. Yeah, I didn't think it counts as a "gift", but okay.
So in-depth with the relationship between Andre and Gabrielle....it's interesting...really. Because Andre is just so handsome and masculine, you'd think he'd be all like a saint, right? Fuck you, nope. Of course, Andre has to be an asshole. So when they first meet, it's at this club. And get this, apparently, Gabrielle is 17, and Andre...is 700 years old, but must look to be in his early or mid-twenties. Andre tells her, not asks her, to go on a date with him. Of course, of course, Gabrielle is like fuck you who do you think you are? Typical cliche shit. So Andre is like what the fuck...what is this female specimen who has this capability to say no to me? This otherworldly creature is so unique so I must have her...Okay fine, he didn't say this word for word, but it was obvious he was thinking it.
So after, when Andre goes to her school residence, he finds out that Gabrielle is the daughter of one of his friends, Santiago Fiori. She stands him up, and according to Andre, the best thing to do about being stood up....is to go the library where she is, and kidnap her, coercing her on the date. And so other shit happens......she "awakens", finds out her gifts, is excluded from almost all students in Peel Academy because she's a vampire, a bunch of people try to kill her, blah blah blah. And so ladies and gentlemen,, she finds out that there is this prophecy that some vampire/siren bitch will be the cause of all vampire's death.
At the end of the story, Gabrielle's best-friend, Leanne, is a seer and sees that Bishopscourt, a place where vampires live and do shit, will catch on fire. She warns Gabrielle, and Gabrielle warns every vampire there. The fire spreads and burns down like...let's say the entire building. But Andre does some stupid shit which ends up killing a lot of vampires, and Gabrielle is like fuck off and just give me some space and time to cope with the dumbfuck shit you did.
So yeah. My take on this book is that Andre is just a little too possessive even in my opinion. The book doesn't really have an interesting plot...wait a minute, no, they don't even really have a plot. It's mainly based on romance, which will somewhat lessen in the series I hope. But this book does have it's redeeming qualities that I would read the future books.
So guys. If you want to read a cliche as fuck book with I guess....a great romance, then click one of the links above, and you will be whisked away to a world of Peel Academy of shitty students.
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