Life Eternal (Dead Beautiful, #2)

by Yvonne Woon

Seventeen-year-old Renée Winters must transfer to a Montréal school exclusively for those training to kill the Undead, while unraveling a long-buried secret that may be the key to saving Dante Berlin, her Undead soulmate.

• ISBN10: 1423119576
• ISBN13: 9781423119579
• Publish Date: 24 January 2012
• Publish Status: Out of Stock
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Hyperion Books for Children
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 400
• Language: English

Reviews

[tweetybugshouse]

To start at the end - Yvonne is the master of cliffhanger endings! She did it at the end of Dead Beautiful, and it's even more cliffhanger-y in Life Eternal! The last chapter is a buildup of action upon action, suspense and mystery, with terror and danger climbing and magnifying, until you're holding your breath and waiting to see what happens, and then something happens - and then it's the last sentence. And you turn the page. And that's it. And now wait for the third book! But who died? And who's the good guy? And did they get it? And what does it mean? We'll have to wait and see.

[Kim Deister]

Life Eternal is the second Dead Beautiful book, and miles better than the first. Gone were my issues with the first, reviewed in this post. Instead, there was a ton of mystery and intrigue and a whole lot of spookiness. There was also a lot more romance without all the sappiness that I hated from the first book.
So much has changed for Renee and I think her character is that much better for it. I thought she was so much more real a character, despite the paranormal aspects to the story. Dante is just as tragic as in the first book, but a much warmer person... despite that whole Undead thing, of course! Their love story has matured and has no end of obstacles, some seemingly insurmountable. They weren't together for much of this book, but their love story was still a big part of the plot.

We meet a lot of new characters in this book, characters that I hope we see more of in the next book, Life Reborn, due out in January of 2014. They added a lot to the story and filled the gap that Dante's absence could have left.

Things to love about Life Eternal...

--Much better character development. The characters were much more likable in this book and that was a great thing.
--The inclusion of a new setting, new friends, and new mystery. This added a lot to the suspense of the story.
--The ending. A fantastic cliffhanger ending!

Things I wanted more of...

--Dante. I really began to love him in this book and would have loved more of him!

My recommendation: Much better than the first. The cliffhanger has me waiting for the next book!