I like that he seemed to be fighting it, and at times called himself on it. His dad was an abusive control freak and these things tend to go in cycles. I like John, despite the borderline abusive vibe that seems so common to YA these days, but at least in his character it makes sense. Before I had a hard time “getting” her, but in this book I understood her reactions, and she seemed very three dimensional. Pierce didn’t seem as difficult to access to me.
I really liked them! I don’t know if the book was actually better or if I’m just in a healthier place now, but I really enjoyed this book. But I kept seeing the books around and I sort of fell in love with the covers so I picked up the next two books. I can’t separate all that frustration enough to review the first book enough to do it justice. I hated it, but I don’t know if it actually had anything to do with the book or the fact that I’d been shot down for something that, sure featured a Persephone myth, but was SO fundamentally unlike my book that it seemed crazy it was rejected for fear or saturating the market. I like Meg Cabot, I like Persephone, seemed like a win to me. But when I was querying Persephone, I was shot down by a few publishing houses because Abandon and The Goddess Test were coming out later that year and they didn’t want the market saturated.īut then I got published with Musa and decided when I saw Abandon in the library to give it a shot. It has nothing to do with the authors or the writers.
I have a bit of bitterness toward this series and The Goddess Test series. Some are so unhappy with where they ended up after leaving the Underworld, they’ve come back as Furies, intent on vengeance…on the one who sent them there and on the one whom he loves.īut while Pierce might be safe from the Furies in the Underworld, far worse dangers could be lurking for her there…and they might have more to do with its ruler than with his enemies.Īnd unless Pierce is careful, this time there’ll be no escape. Her captor, John Hayden, claims it’s for her own safety. Seventeen-year-old Pierce Oliviera isn’t dead.īut she is being held against her will in the dim, twilit world between heaven and hell, where the spirits of the deceased wait before embarking upon their final journey. Why the second book and not the first? Because it’s been a year since I read the first book, so this review is mostly about the last two, which I just finished.Įscape from the realm of the dead is impossible when someone there wants you back. Okay, here’s the blurb for the second book.
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