Underworld: Abandon Book 2
Meg Cabot
Hardcover: 336 pages
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Publisher: Point (Scholastic)
ISBN:0545284112
Source: ARC from the publisher
Rating: Kinda Liked
From Goodreads. Escape from the realm of the dead is impossible when someone there wants you back. Seventeen-year-old Pierce Oliviera isn’t dead. Not this time. But 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. Her captor, John Hayden, claims it’s for her own safety. Because not all the departed are dear. 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. But 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. And unless Pierce is careful, this time there’ll be no escape.
I had never read a Meg Cabot book before Abandon nope not even The Princess
Diaries (just watched the movie) so I was hoping since I liked the movie
that her books would be fantastic. They were good but I was a bit disappointed with
Abandon I felt like I was in the mind
of a crazy person the whole time I was reading it. Honestly if I would have reviewed
that one it would have been a so-so, especially after reading some other
fantastic books about the underworld mythology.
On to Underworld this book was much better than the first! There was
action and romance and I didn’t feel like I wanted to strangle Pierce through
this one. The story was pretty predictable and I didn’t find myself connecting
to the characters like I normally do in books but it was an enjoyable quick
read. John the love interest was probably one of the main reasons I liked this
story he’s very handsome and dangerous but he has a gentle side that I found
endearing. I will definitely give book 3 a shot because I have to find out how
all this ends.
Here’s a passage from the book.
John seized me by
both shoulders, pulling me towards him so abruptly that Hope gave an alarmed
flap of her wings.
“Pierce,” he
said. “Do you mean that?”
When I pushed
back some of the hair that had tumbled into my face and raised my dark eyes to
meet his light ones, I saw that he was staring down at me with an intensity
that burned.
“You’ll never mention
going back to Isla Huesos again if I take you there right now, just this once,
to talk to your cousin Alex?” he demanded. “You’ll give…cohabitation another
chance?”
His sudden
fierceness was making me nervous.
“Of course John,”
I said, “But it’s not like I have a choice.”
“What if you did?”
he asked, his grip tightening.
“I blinked. “But
I can’t. You said----“
He gave me a
little shake. “Never mind what I said. What if I was wrong?”
I reached up to
lay a hand on his cheek. It felt a little scratchy, because he hadn’t shaved. I
didn’t care about stubble. What I cared about was the desperate need I saw in
his eyes. The need for me.
“I’d come back,”
I said, simply, “to stay with you.”
A second later,
the lake---and everything around it--- was gone.
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