Friday, May 25, 2012

Bookworm Review of Cursed: Book One of The Devil's Rose by Tara Brown

Overview by B&N

Some girls have all the luck and the love, Aimee James is not one of these girls. Luck avoids her at all costs and love couldn't be further away.
That is until the fateful night she agrees to attend her first party, ever.
She loses her best friend while accidentally stealing another and meets a stranger, no one else can see, who sets her body aflame with desire.
Things heat up and Aimee finds herself in love with two guys at once but as bad luck would have it she also finds her life on the line.
She must choose between living and loving for the first time.
The questions she must ask herself, Is it worth it to live forever if the person you love doesn't know you're alive, literally? Or is it better to die with their kiss upon your lips?      


Review by the Bookworm

It this book we meet Aimee James.  Not the typical girl at all, but really a nerd, a social outcast and a mathlete.  Her twin is her complete opposite and also the school whore and all around typical high school snot.

She finds herself the victim of a date rape drug, and an out of body experience as she dies.  When she dies, she sees Aleksander, who is the best looking guy easily hands down.  Now, Aimee has also been in love with Shane, her sisters boyfriend since the second grade.  It's pretty long, sort of boring up until this point.  As she is dying Aleksander saves her and cleans her up and puts her to bed.

The girl that shared her drink isn't so lucky and is shipped off to the hospital which Aimee finds herself in the next day.  Unaware of her liver failure, Aimee is too wrapped up in which boy she should choose until she finds herself dying in a hospital where another new character pops in by the name of Dorian.  A guy.  Not a female.  He offers her life....with a price.

She isn't a vampire, she isn't a werewolf, but she sustains herself off the tearing of a soul as it's ripped free from the body.  Now she is an outcast, she can't be around her family, she cannot be around Shane, and she doesn't want to be around Aleksander.  She finds hereself in Portland, learning to cope with her abilities and the "unexplained Roses."

It's a good book, though through the overview and my explaination doesn't help.  The book is not a published book by a publisher, but self published through Smashwords which you can get on Nook or via your computer, I'm not sure about the others.    

It does have typo's, some grammer issues, some punction issues defiantely, but if this girl had a good editor, this would be a better series than Twilight.  Yes, I said it, better than Twilight.  It is a bit confusing and ends strangely, but that's because it's a lead way into the next book.  I do like them that end and can pick up in the next as Stephanie Meyer did, but not everyone is the same!  Look it up!  I give it 5 stars and that is rare! 

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