Monday, May 19, 2014

Love Reborn by Yvonne Woon - ADVISABLE

Woon, Yvonne  Love Reborn, 358 pgs.  Hyperion, 2014.  $16.99  Content: Language: PG (1 swear); Mature Content: PG; Violence: PG-13.  

Renee is in love with Dante, an Undead whose life is coming to an end, so they are searching for the eternal life.  Since Renee and her friend Noah have found the Cartesean map which shows them the location of five places that will lead them to eternal life, Dante and Renee start on their journey.  They find themselves torn between the leaders of the Undead and the leaders of the Monitors (those whose job it is to bury the Undead) and being led with clues by an ally named Monsieur.  Whether they will find what they are looking for in time for Dante to maintain his humanity or Renee will lose her life for Dante is the question throughout the book.  

This is the third book in the Dead Beautiful trilogy.  Renee and Dante’s love story is brought to a satisfying conclusion with good character twists throughout.  At times the monotony of the journey slowed the story down, but the threat of the Undead and Renee’s grandfather propels the reader to find out what happens in the end.  This was a good series because it’s clean, with interesting characters and story line.  It is easy to recommend to young adults who like supernatural books.  

MS, HS-ADVISABLE.  Reviewer, C. Peterson.

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