She could save the world—or destroy it.
Sixteen year old Evangeline “Evie” Greene leads a charmed life, until she begins experiencing horrifying hallucinations. When an apocalyptic event decimates her Louisiana hometown, Evie realizes her hallucinations were actually visions of the future—and they’re still happening. Fighting for her life and desperate for answers, she must turn to her wrong-side-of-the-bayou classmate: Jack Deveaux.
But she can’t do either alone.
With his mile-long rap sheet, wicked grin, and bad attitude, Jack is like no boy Evie has ever known. Even though he once scorned her and everything she represented, he agrees to protect Evie on her quest. She knows she can’t totally depend on Jack. If he ever cast that wicked grin her way, could she possibly resist him?
Who can Evie trust?
As Jack and Evie race to find the source of her visions, they meet others who have gotten the same call. An ancient prophesy is being played out, and Evie is not the only one with special powers. A group of twenty-two teens has been chosen to reenact the ultimate battle between good and evil. But it’s not always clear who is on which side….
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Poison Princess (Arcana Chronicles, Book 1)
Now for my review.....I love me some Kresley Cole. I love all her Immortals After Dark series and highly recommend them to anyone who will listen. When I heard she was coming out with a YA series I was excited but to be honest, in the back of my head, a bit skeptical. I took the plunge and hoped for the best. I am so glad I did!!!! This book was nothing I was expecting and to be honest, I'm not sure how YA it is. I'd definitely recommend it to adults and probably 16+ teens. There's definitely some very vivid scenes and it kicks off with the most creepy dude I think I've ever read. He'll definitely make me think twice about going into strangers houses. This book is also more apocalyptic then I thought but it worked. It's a very creepy world that Kresley Cole has built and only the strongest will survive. We have Zombies, Cannibals and men gone crazy. Women are scarce and the men all want them. The world has been consumed by fires and even the oceans have dried up. It's total chaos! Our hero and heroine met in the last days of high school before all the fires and Jack became immediately smitten with Evie but he's a very very bad boy and our heroine was a good good girl. After the fires, Jack tracks down Evie who's holed up with her dying mother at their farm. Jack promises her mom to look out for Evie in this new world even though Evie doesn't want to leave her mom. That's all the spoilage I'm gonna give. This is a new series by Kresley Cole, so this book is world building and relationship building. Evie is on a journey of not only self discovery (why she effects plants, hears voices and has an imaginary bff) but it's also a teen romance. Jack is a total guy and a manhore but he genuinely likes Evie. Evie is a typical rich teen girl with pompoms who's been thrust into a very unique new world and hopefully she can find the inner strength to survive with Jack by her side or die. Kresley Cole does a fabulous job of moving the reader through the world with Evie. She stays true to the characters and by the end, you're clamoring for the next book. I can't wait to read the next book in the series and I recommend this book to everyone except those under 16. Like I said, it has very graphic post-apocalyptic scenes, talks about cannibalism and gang rape. It also has the very very very creepy dude in the beginning, which will probably even give me nightmares.
5 out of 5 books!
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