Title: Arcana Series (Book One) Poison Princess
GoodReads Summary:
She could save the world—or destroy it.
Sixteen year old Evangeline “Evie” Greene leads a charmed life, until she begins experiencing horrifying hallucinations. When an apocalyptic event decimates her Louisiana hometown, Evie realizes her hallucinations were actually visions of the future—and they’re still happening. Fighting for her life and desperate for answers, she must turn to her wrong-side-of-the-bayou classmate: Jack Deveaux.
But she can’t do either alone.
With his mile-long rap sheet, wicked grin, and bad attitude, Jack is like no boy Evie has ever known. Even though he once scorned her and everything she represented, he agrees to protect Evie on her quest. She knows she can’t totally depend on Jack. If he ever cast that wicked grin her way, could she possibly resist him?
Who can Evie trust?
As Jack and Evie race to find the source of her visions, they meet others who have gotten the same call. An ancient prophesy is being played out, and Evie is not the only one with special powers. A group of twenty-two teens has been chosen to reenact the ultimate battle between good and evil. But it’s not always clear who is on which side…
My thoughts:
Alright, my thoughts,
my thoughts… So this book is 384 pages and took me a while to get through. This book was very vanilla for me. I liked
that it wasn't predictable, I liked most the characters, bottom line was
nothing about this book made it stand out for me. There wasn't a “WOW DID THAT
JUST HAPPEN?!?!?!” Moment where I reread the last two pages with my eyes wide
with excitement. There wasn't an
“oooooooooh” moment that left me jittery for more. Plus it kept a sorta slow
pace, at least for my liking, so here’s what happens.
First thing that I
liked about this book was how it was being told. The prologue sets us in a room
with Arthur and Evie, Arthur is pretty much a psychopath crazy person and Evie is our
lead gal. So the book is us hearing Evie tell her story about how she got where
she was. I believe there were three
parts together, beginning, middle, and end, where it went back to Arthur’s POV
with Evie retelling him the tale. I really, really liked how the author wrote
it up that way; it just made the whole thing more interesting because I was
dying to find out what happened with Arthur in the end. It was like giving us
two stories at once.
The story is mostly set
in post-apocalypse world with Bagmen (scary nasty zombie people- let’s say a
vampire zombie offspring), cannibals, evil militias with world domination in
mind, and just some super crazy people trying to stay alive. I’m not really
sure how the whole apocalypse has
anything to do with the actual story, but it makes it harder for Evie and her
gang to get around and I guess starts the story in motion.
So we follow Evie and
super cute French speaking Cajun friend Jack on their mission to find Evie’s
grandmother from Louisiana to North Carolina. Why on the hunt for Nana you may
ask? Well Evie discovers that her crazy talking Tarot(mythical playing card
deck) I guess she’d be a reader of the cards…? Grandmother knows everything
that she has to learn. So Evie gets Jack to agree to help her find her
Grandmother so that she can learn her destiny and SAVE THE WORLD!!!! Duhn duhn
duuuuuuhn.
I’m not exactly doing
this book justice, it was a really good book, and the Tarot card thing made it
interesting. Most of the characters are a card and they’re kinda all set for some
duel to the death. This story was pretty much Hunger Games meets Alice in
Wonderland. I loved finding out about
all the different players and I think Finn who sadly is only in the last part
of the book is hilarious and I really want to read more about him. Each card
person has some kind of magical powers and it’s really something that lingers
in your mind and has you thinking over. The ending drove me crazy because it’s
not just a cliff hanger, it’s not like it ended the chapter, this book just
stopped. I wouldn't even say it finished the sentence because one second it was
there and it was intense and Evie had all these realization and the nothing.
Nicht, nada, gone.
Oh, I also loved the incorporated French in this book, it
gave it something different. Over all it was a very good book but the pace
being set so slow had me dragging my feet to much to enjoy the story. And Evie did get on my nerves at times. But that's just my opinion.
My rating of this book:
3.5
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