No, no, no, no! How can it end like that!
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This book was so flawlessly written.
The pages and the chapters all blended together so incredibly well that it was basically impossible to put this book down! The writing and the descriptions in this book were so stunning and honestly gorgeous even more so than the cover! I found myself rereading sections and pagesortimes.
I mean is this not an amazing excerpt:
“They say Halloween is a time when the veil over the world of the spirits is the thinnest, when ghosts can cross over and whisper in our ears or touch us on the cheek.
I want to believe thisand I dont, ”
The imagery in that quote is, . . just no words. I cant even explain to you how much I love that quote! The writing style in The Alchemy of Forever has a very delicate feel to it.
Almost like every word is very carefully placed to create a brilliant sentence, Or maybe thats just the main characters voice, Either way I loved it.
We meet the main character, Seraphina, during a masquerade ball where her troubles all begin, There, she falls for the Alchemists son, Cyrus, and the rest is history, But I cant blame her, I totally wouldve fallen for him too! His bright blonde hair, brilliant blue eyes, sweet smile, and witty remarks.
. . swoon! But after Cyrus turns Sera into an Incarnate, he becomes extremely protective and overbearing I still found him completely sexy.
Evil, but totally sexy. Just sayin! He makes her feel trapped, constantly dictating everything her and the other Incarnates do,
Oh man! I wish there wouldve been more of the coven! Jared is described as a sexy pirate who acts as a bodyguard from time to time.
And Seras best friend, Charlotte, was so adorably cute, From the little I read about the other Incarnates, I liked them a lot!
So anyway, afteryears of being alive, Seras ready to be done.
Shes ready to be done stealing innocent lives, dispersing souls and switching bodies, she doesnt want to be trapped in this life anymore.
But things dont go quite as planned and she ends up taking over Kailey Morgans body and life.
And dudes, Kaileys family is awesome! Her mom and dad are such, parents! I loved it. And her brother, Bryan, is hilarious! Hes constantly teasing her and she gives it right back, Bryan also likes Kaileys best friend and hes so adorable when he gets all flustered! Yep, I love her brother. I basically loved all the boys in this book, What a surprise, right! :P
The only thing I can complain about is that I wish the book wouldve been longer! The story unfolded so quickly, and I whipped through it so fast, I found myself wanting more! More details, more descriptions, more flashbacks, more Noah! Ah! Noah.
He is the sweetest thing ever,
The ending was a complete SHOCKER! I honestly did NOT see it coming! How did I miss that!
The Alchemy of Forever is an incredible, suspenseful, fastpaced debut and I canNOT wait to see how things play out in the second book!
Another quote I heart:
“I picture each life Ive led like beads strung together on a necklace to make me who I am, the sum of all these jewels.
And each shiny bead turned to a puff of smoke, a necklace made of ghosts, one bead for one lost girl.
”
Já tedy rozhodně ano! Chci vyzkoušet všechny ty úžasné věci, co jsou na Zemi.
Chci navštívit všechna ta nádherná místa na Zemi, Chci vystudovat všechny ty zajímavé obory na všech těch zajímavých univerzitách, Ale především, chci přečíst všechny ty báječné knížky, které každým dnem přibývají a přibývají, že nakonec po nějakých těch šesti set let budu mít víc plnější toread list než dnes :D.
Jenže pro Serafinu bože to jméno se mi tak líbí! to není lehké.
Každých pár let musí měnit tělo a tím i někomu vzít život.
Po šesti stech letech se tedy rozhodne, že už žádné převtělování, už žádná smrt další nevinné dívky, jenom ta její.
Opouští svého, kdysi milovaného, přítele Cyruse, který je mimochodem alchymistou a vlastně strůjcem toho všeho, a chce zjistit, co se s ní stane s její duší až zemře úplně.
Ale osud tomu nechtěl a připravil si pro Serafinu ještě jeden život, Jenže Cyrus se jí nehodlá jen tak vzdát, . .
Poté, co jsem dočetla Alchymii věčnosti, se neustále ptám, proč je ta knížka tak krátká Proč Pro mě to byl velmi zajímavý a originální příběh.
I na tak málo stránkách mě dokázal okouzlit, Ještě, že bude druhý díl :
Obálka se nakladatelství CooBoo rozhodně povedla, je přímo výstavní.
A co jsem slyšela o té originální, tak se prý obličej na obálce mění dle úhlu pohledu, pááni!
První kapitola je vstupem do děje jak to všechno začalo v roce.
Druhá kapitola už začíná v dnešním světě o několik set let později, Je dobře, že autorka pozměnila charaktery postav v závislosti na jejich skutečném stáří, Zalet člověk nabere tolik zkušeností a vykoná tolik skutků ať už dobrých nebo zlých, že nevěřím, že by zůstal někdo stejný, jako onehdy.
Serafina se musí začlenit do “její” nové rodiny, která nemá ani potuchy, kdo doopravdy je a do nové školy vlastně její první školy vůbec mezi Kayleiny spolužáky.
Huh, poprvé ve škole Sera to zvládla bravurně! Já bych měla problém už jen se naučit rozvrh hodin.
A to všechno s Cyrusem v patách, který může být kdekoli a v jakémkoli těle.
Další kniha, která mě opět nutila přemýšlet, Tentokrát ve stylu: Ten umělec na Art Murmur by určitě dobře mohl být i Cyrus.
” nebo Zašel by Cyrus tak daleko, že by se schoval v dívčím těle Stala se z něj snad jedna z Kaileyiných spolužaček”.
Děj byl svižný a ani nachvilinku jsem se nenudila bohužel to až moc rychle uteklo : Zřídka jsem dokázala odhadnout, co přijde, většinou jsem se pořádně sekla a koukala jak to nakonec autorka vymyslela.
Tuto knihu rozhodně neřadím mezi předvídatelné, Škoda jen, že je tak krátka, Příběh by si určitě zasloužil víc prostoru, První díl končí ve chvíli, kdybyste nejradši četli dál a to vám zaručí, že si druhý díl budete chtít rozhodně přečíst.
Líbily se mi tam drobnosti jako třeba, když Noah hraje se Serou scrabble přes mobil, kde každé vytvořené slovo mělo větší/skrytý význam, nebo jak Serafina občas použila přirovnání situace k šachové partii.
Je mi jako bych všude kolem sebe
měla Cyruse, který očekává můj další tah.
Tuhle hru nesmím prohrát, ”
Tuhle krátkou krásnou knížečku bych chtěla doporučit každému, kdo má aspoň trochu rád toho magična a nadpřirozena.
Nečekala jsem, že si ji tak zamiluju, ale stalo se a jsem za to ráda, Zase něco nového a originálního do mé pestré knihovničky :
I really do not know what is going on in the YA universe lately, but the quality of writing from debut authors is dropping drastically.
This book was just ridiculous, It was completely unbelievable in every way, and the underdeveloped characters were all idiots, I should have known not to read this book when it said for fans of the Immortals series, but noooooo I wanted to give a new author a chance.
Yea. Big mistake.
Let's start with the characters, Seraphina is supposed to be this unselfish, caring person, but she's not, She's been killing people for SIX HUNDRED YEARS so that she could stay alive, and she just now started feeling bad enough about it to, oh I don't know, STOP! Yea, she's real caring.
Sure, she waits the full ten years before she switches bodies, but seriously, that's over,murders she's committed, I just couldn't buy into her being a kind character,
The rest of the characters are so underdeveloped, it's laughable, I didn't feel like I knew the characters any better at the end of the book than I did at the beginning.
I kept reading, hoping for some big explosion of character development, but none came,
Now, let's talk about the plot, My consensus of this is W, T. F!! It made no sense, unless Sera is a big freaking liar, which she probably is, The prologue indicates that one must suck the life force out of another human before inhabiting the body, Okay, cool, I'll go with it right Well, she just kisses the first woman to inhabit her body, Unless I've been doing it wrong all these years, you don't suck on someone's face like they're a straw when you're kissing them.
Just sayin'.
THEN, Sera "accidentally" kills Kailey in an effort to save her, Riiiiight. She was giving her mouth to mouth, and then she just accidentally SUCKED the life force out of Kailey instead of BLOWING AIR into her lungs Sure, that's believable.
But still, I kept reading, . . I hoped it'd start to be more logical, but it got even worse, Then Sera makes aboutstupid mistakes, constantly blaming Cyrus because he made it to where she had to always depend on him.
Well, maybe he realized that she was too stupid to live and kept her on a tight leash, And, of course, no one bothers to question why Kailey's entire personality has changed, Sure, they ask if she's okay, but past that, even her parents don't
mention it, They know she had a concussion, yet they ignore the fact that she's acting weird, That's totally believable. AND her parents kept telling her things like, "We always allowed you to do what you want, . . " um hello! Who would do that If that is your child, she was there for her entire life, so she KNOWS what you did and didn't do.
The telling her stuff like that was just too convenient, And another thing, why on earth did no one question why Kailey's blood was all over the pavement after the accident, but she had no injuries minus a concussion when she got to the hospital She totaled a car and would have probably been dead.
Looking at the car, one would assume there would be more injuries than just a concussion, Which leads me to yet ANOTHER plot hole, . . how did she keep the accident a secret from everyone in school Her brother told one person, yet no one else ever found out.
I mean did Williams even GO to high school People would have known, and people would have talked about it.
A lot.
The ending was a terrible cliffhanger that was about as illogical as the rest of the book.
Needless to say, I won't be continuing this series, The writing itself wasn't horrible, but the overly convenient events in the illconceived plot with the underdeveloped characters made me want to gouge my eyes out.
Do yourself a favor and avoid this one, .