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ETERNAL by Cynthia Leitich Smith – REVIEW December 9, 2008

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Did you read TANTALIZE and love it?  Maybe you haven’t even heard of it.  Either way it doesn’t matter.  ETERNAL is set in the same world as TANTALIZE, but takes place earlier in the timeline.  Completely different characters grace the pages of ETERNAL that you will grow to love.  Reading TANTALIZE first isn’t necessary, so in February when ETERNAL hits the shelves run to the bookstore and get your copy.

Miranda is a quiet and shy typical teenage girl.  

Zachary is her Guardian Angel (GA).

Miranda has no idea Zachary exists.

Over the years of keeping watch over Miranda, Zachary has fallen in love with her.

Their status quo interaction completely changes one night in a creepy cemetery. Miranda’s best friend Lucy drags her to the cemetery to meet some guys for an exciting night out. Miranda doesn’t want to be there in the first place and lags behind until she is lost.  As Zachary watches Miranda stumble through the darkness, he sees she is about to step into an abandoned open grave.  Knowing she’ll probably fall and break her neck, Zachary does the first thing that comes to mind in order to save her – he reveals himself by yelling for her to stop and illuminating himself using his angel light so she can see where she is walking.

Two things happen simultaneously.

1) Michael, the arch angel, appears and strips Zachary of his wings and his ability to become ethereal for breaking the rules and revealing himself to humans.

2) Miranda is attacked by a vampire and taken away to be the current Dracula’s princess heir.

With Zachary stuck wandering the mortal world and Miranda a vampire princess how in the world is he going to protect her now?

ETERNAL was a fast and enjoyable read.  The pages fly by and getting to the end comes too soon.  The third book in this series is called BLESSED and the characters from both TANTALIZE and ETERNAL will cross over and I for one can’t wait to see what happens when they meet.

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1. Carol - December 10, 2008

I can’t wait for this book to come out! I really want to read it.

2. Angie - December 11, 2008

I haven’t read TANTALIZE, but this one sounds pretty fun.

3. audrey - December 21, 2008

im loving your blog…. i found some now books to read! THANKS :)

4. Nancy - December 21, 2008

After reading TANTALIZE, I was eager to have more of that world in my hands again. I cannot wait for this book and now have yet another to add to my TBR pile.

5. Debbie Reese - January 31, 2009

Both are thumbs up reads! I read TANTALIZE when it came out, and just finished the ARC of ETERNAL. Wow!

6. Ms. Yingling - February 25, 2009

The violence in this one was rather disturbing. The vampires aren’t at all conflicted about killing people.

7. NotNessie - April 28, 2009

This book sounds really good, but I read Tantalize and I pretty much hated it, so I’m reluctant to try this one.