Incarnate (Incarnate Trilogy, #1)

by Jodi Meadows

[Stephanie]

I really did not know what I was getting myself into when I started this book. All I knew was that it involved reincarnation. I did NOT know it involved dragons, sylphs, some creepy wall with a heart beat, and a relationship with a 5,000 year age difference.

For the most part, I really did like Incarnate. It was very unique and strange. I felt like the book focused a lot on Ana and Sam's relationship, which I don't know how I feel about. Physically, Sam and Ana are the same age, but Sam's soul is 5,000 years old. He's been around the block a time or two with many different people, were as Ana has no idea what sex is or what in entails.

I really just don't know how to wrap my head around this idea. A million souls constantly being reincarnated, sometimes being a man one life, then being a woman another life. How does one's soul deal with this change? I'm sure after 5,000 years you would get used to it and get to know everyone and learn who your friend's and enemies are, but that is lightly touched on in the story. Most of the time it's about people hating on Ana and Ana trying to figure out why she was born in the first place.

Incarnate is written beautifully. Sometimes I felt like the writing made the story move a little slower, but then it would pick up again and get kind of exciting. Sometimes it felt like I had to push myself to read, but once I got into it, I was good to go.

I did enjoy Incarnate, with it's very strange world. I would say the world was what kept me reading. I kept wanting to know more about the world and all it's creatures, even though that wasn't the main focus of the story. Overall, I enjoyed it enough to read the second book in the series.