Review: The Eternity Cure

The Eternity Cure (Blood of Eden #2)
by Julie Kagawa
Published April 30th 2013
by Harlequin Teen
ARC from Netgalley

Summary from Goodreads:

Allison Sekemoto has vowed to rescue her creator, Kanin, who is being held hostage and tortured by the psychotic vampire Sarren. The call of blood leads her back to the beginning—New Covington and the Fringe, and a vampire prince who wants her dead yet may become her wary ally.

Even as Allie faces shocking revelations and heartbreak like she’s never known, a new strain of the Red Lung virus that decimated humanity is rising to threaten human and vampire alike.

Thoughts:
This is a very hard review to write. I'm always drawn to strong female characters and I did fell in love with Allie when she was introduced in the first book. Compared to Julie's earlier heroine (Meghan) Allie is certainly no damsel in distress and she's definitely a very independent, bad ass chick even before she was turned into a vampire.

And after falling for Zeke and becoming a softie, I'm so glad that she's back to her sarcastic self in the beginning of this book. But the plot in this one seemed to meander a bit. She stumbled upon the evil Jackal that she had killed in the last book, made a pact of sorts and went on a mindless pursuit of their creator; Kanin. I'm just confused how easily Allie agreed to Jackal's plan eventhough she hated his guts and I had a feeling that Allie is now embracing her vampire side more freely now instead of being in a dilemma for the most part of the first book.

I know most readers welcomed the appearance of Zeke in the middle of this book but their romance feels awkward to me. At the end of it, there's too many questions to be answered that it made me so disappointed and conflicted about the series.

Verdict: 3 stars.
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