Haven Moore can't control her visions of a past with a boy called Ethan, and a life in New York that ended in fiery tragedy. In our present, she designs beautiful dresses for her classmates with her best friend Beau. Dressmaking keeps her sane, since she lives with her widowed and heartbroken mother in her tyrannical grandmother's house in Snope City, a tiny town in Tennessee. Then an impossible group of coincidences conspire to force her to flee to New York, to discover who she is, and who she was.
In New York, Haven meets Iain Morrow and is swept into an epic love affair that feels both deeply fated and terribly dangerous. Iain is suspected of murdering a rock star and Haven wonders, could he have murdered her in a past life? She visits the Ouroboros Society and discovers a murky world of reincarnation that stretches across millennia. Haven must discover the secrets hidden in her past lives, and loves¸ before all is lost and the cycle begins again.
~Summary from Goodreads.com
I personally give this book five out of five stars.
I cannot even begin to describe how much I adored this book! It has so many twists and turns in it that it just keeps you on your toes the whole time. It definitely was not one of those books where you had the ending figured out halfway through. It kept you guessing and screaming at the book I SWEAR TO GOD IF YOU DON'T HAVE A HAPPY ENDING I WILL... Probably read the sequel? Yeah it's a pretty fantastic I spent all of yesterday reading it and all of today reading it's superb sequel All you desire.
I don't want to spoil any part of this fantastic book for anyone so I shall not go into detail about said AMAZING book (Because if I mention details I will most likely ruin an amazing book for all of you).
Actually... I will attempt to vaguely describe the book.
Haven Moore grew up in Snope city, Tennessee which wasn't known for anything. Ever. It's inhabitants know way to much about one anothers personal lives and judge all them hypocritically. To be different is to be condemned. So when Haven begins to have flashbacks of another life in New York city back in the 1920's can you guess what happens? They all make her life a living hell and claim that she has been possessed by Satan. But at least she has one ally in Snope City, her best friend Beau Decker who she became friends with shortly after becoming a social reject. I don't know why but the way they meet is cute I personally think.
Beau shows up to school with a barbie lunchbox (very shiny, very new, very picked out on his own) and gets into a fight with another boy because he got called a derogatory word for gay. And in the midst of the fight Beau's lunchbox gets beat up and covered in crappy cafeteria food so once Beau and the boy get hauled to the principal's office Haven takes it upon herself to go to the bathroom rinse off his lunchbox and try to fix the dents the best she can. And then she goes and brings it to Beau to cheer him up while he waits outside the office for his Dad. They had been best friends ever since.
I'm not even going to begin discussing Iain Morrow (insert swoon here) because then I shall most assuredly ruin the book for everyone in existence. But I would like to go ahead and say that he is the one of most amazing, awesome, and swoon-worthy characters I have ever read about.
I cannot emphasize this enough. READ.THIS.BOOK.
Songs to listen to while reading this book:
Everything is alright - Motion city soundtrack
Robot boy - Linkin Park
I'll follow you into the dark - Death cab for cutie
Always running out of time - Motion city soundtrack
Northern Downpour - Panic at the disco
Miserable at best - Mayday Parade
Save you - Simple plan
Broken - Seether
The messenger - Linkin Park
I now would like to take the time to inform all of you that your comments = more book reviews/ suggestions :)
