REVIEW: The Eternal Ones by Kirsten Miller

A fresh and exciting new novel by Kirsten Miller, author of the Kiki Strike series, The Eternal Ones is a MUST READ.

Haven Moore is more than meets the eye. She looks seventeen, but she has actually been reincarnated so many times that she has lived for over three thousand years. As a child, Haven had visions of a life as a woman named Constance. Only when the visions return at the age of seventeen when evidence surfaces does Haven realise that Constance was her in a past life. Drawn to famous movie star/ billionaire, Iain Morrow, Haven enters a world where your past lives DO come back to haunt you. Can Haven escape her pre-lived fate in time?

I really loved this book. I thoroughly enjoyed Miller's ideas on reincarnation and spin on an age -old love story.

The seeds for the plot were scattered throughout the book, only to bloom later on surprising you with the twists and turns the book took.

I really appreciated the names that Miller had chosen being both interesting and reflecting some of the characters personalities; Imogene Snively being the pompous old lady that was portrayed throughout the book. I really liked the characters, I thought that they were more than you first think and I really enjoyed the fact that they kept you on your toes.

The writing style was relaxed and made you feel comfortable, easy to read. The Eternal Ones keeps you eternally guessing and I would enthusiastically recommend it for any girl aged 13 - 16.

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THE ETERNAL ONES BY KIRSTEN MILLER

EVER SINCE HAVEN MOORE CAN REMEMBER, SHE'S experienced visions of a previous life as a girl named Constance, whose love for her soulmate Ethan ended in tradgedy.

And then the sight of the world's hottest movie star, Iain Morrow, brings Haven to her knees. 

She knows she has met him before.

Is Iain her beloved Ethan?

Unable to deny her past any longer, seventeen-year-old Haven flees to New York to find him - and an epic love affair begins. 

But it is both deeply fated and terribly dangerous. Can Haven inlock the deadly secrets hidden in her past lives - and loves - before all is lost and Ethan disappears again... forever?

I AM NUMBER FOUR BY PITTACUS LORE

JOHN SMITH IS NOT YOUR AVERAGE TEENAGER.

He regularly moves from small town to small town. He changes his name and identity. He does not put down roots. He cannot tell anyone who or what he really is. If he stops moving, those who hunt him will find him and kill him.

But you can't run for ever.

So when he stops in Paradise, Ohio, Jon decides to try and settle down. To fit in. And for the first time he makes some real friends. People who he cares about - and who care about him. Never in John's short life has there been space for friendship, or even love.

But it's just a matter of time before John's secret is revealed.

He was once one of nine. Three of them have been killed.

John is Number Four. He knows that he is next...

JEALOUSY: A STRANGE ANGELS NOVEL 

BY LILI ST. CROW

Dru Anderson might finally be safe. She’s at the largest Schola on the continent, and beginning to learn what it means to be svetocha–half vampire, half human, and all deadly. If she survives her training, she will be able to take her place in the Order, holding back the vampires and protecting the oblivious normal people.

But a web of lies and betrayals is still closing around her, just when she thinks she can relax a little. Her mentor Christophe is missing, her almost-boyfriend is acting weird, and the bodyguards she’s been assigned seem to know much more than they should. And then there’s the vampire attacks, the strange nightly visits, and the looks everyone keeps giving her. As if she should know something.

Or as if she’s in danger.

Someone high up in the Order is a traitor. They want Dru dead–but first, they want to know what she remembers of the night her mother died. Dru doesn’t want to remember, but it looks like she might have to–especially since once Christophe returns, he’ll be on trial for his life. The only person who can save him is Dru.

The problem is, once she remembers everything, she may not want to…

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THE THREE LOVES OF PERSIMMON 

BY CASSANDRA GOLDS

PERSIMMON POLIDORI IS A FINE YOUNG LADY, 

but within her is a rebel. She must follow her heart's desire, even if it means her family will reject her for the choices she makes.

These choices bring her adventure and a world she never knew existed - they also bring her loneliness...

Along the way, Persimmon undergoes the trials of love, heartbreak, doubt and the discovery of her own true value.

And she does it with the aid of a tiny, brave creature named Epiphany.

SALTWATER VAMPIRES BY KIRSTY EAGAR

He looked to the sky, praying for rain, a downpour, some sign from the heavens that he should refuse the abomination contained in that flask. But all he saw was the bloated white face of the moon smiling down on him …

And the sky around it was cold and clear and black …

They made their circle of blood. And only the moon witnessed the slaughter that followed.

For Jamie Mackie, summer holidays in the coastal town of Rocky Head mean surfing, making money, and good times at the local music festival. But this year, vampires are on the festival’s line-up … fulfilling a pact made on the wreck of the Batavia, four hundred years ago. If their plans succeed, nobody in Rocky Head will survive to see out the new year.

Saltwater Vampires is a distinctly Australian vampire thriller.

 A POSSESSIONS NOVEL: THE EVIL WITHIN

BY NANCY HOLDER

WARNING: SOMETIMES EVIL IS CLOSER THAN IT APPEARS.

 Lindsay thought she left Marlwood Academy behind for good. 

The girls there aren't just mean, they're evil - possessed by spirits of the dead. 

Then Lindsay discovers that she is possessed! Now she must go back to Marlwood to free herself once and for all.

But the secrets of Marlwood run deep... and the evil is much closer than Lindsay knows.

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These books look absolutely entrancing, and I cannot wait to read them!

I am number four by Pittacus Lore

Nine teenagers and their guardians are hiding on Earth … protected by a charm that means they can only be killed in numeric order, three are already dead. John Smith is Number Four. And his mortal enemies, the Mogadorian, are hunting him down.

The only way to keep off radar is to keep moving, never staying in one place for long. Finally in the firing line, all he can do is adopt the guise of a student and pray his unusual gifts – his legacies home; Planet Lorien – stay hidden long enough for him to settle into this new community.

But others seem to sense his otherness and when small-town life sucks him into its intrigues, it’s only a matter of time before his true nature is revealed. And that means there’s no space for love, friendship or a future if it means protecting not only himself, but the other five …

Reminiscent of Smallville and Heroes, here finally is a thriller with awesome pace, mindblowing special effects and a breathtaking high concept. It demands to be read in one sitting.

 

Impossible by Nancy Werlin

A beautifully wrought modern fairy tale from master storyteller and award-winning American author Nancy Werlin.

Lucy is seventeen when she discovers that she is the latest recipient of a generations-old family curse that requires her to complete three seemingly impossible tasks or risk falling into madness and passing the curse on to the next generation. Unlike her ancestors, though, Lucy has family, friends and love. Is it enough to keep her safe?

   

Time Riders by Alex Scarrow

Liam O’Connor should have died at sea in 1912.
Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010.
Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2029.
Yet moments before death, someone mysteriously
appeared and said, ‘Take my hand . . .’
But Liam, Maddy and Sal aren’t rescued. They are recruited by an agency that no one knows exists, with only one purpose – to fix broken history. Because time travel is here, and there are those who would go back in time and change the past.

That’s why the TimeRiders exist: to protect us. To stop time travel from destroying the world.

The Eternal Ones by Kirsten Miller

An epic and thrilling romance set in the snake-handling churches of Appalachia, the dusty ruins of ancient Rome, and the grand mansions of Manhattan. The Eternal Ones tells the story of the first battle in a war between undying love and eternal evil.

Haven Moore has always known she's different: there are the talents that can't be explained; the knowledge of places she's never been; and then there are the visions that overwhelm her – terrifying visions of a life that ended tragically two decades earlier and more than a thousand miles away in New York City. The citizens of Haven's rural, highly religious community, believe that she's been possessed by a demon.

But this is no demon: it's reincarnation.