I really enjoyed this book...I got it for free, but I'm probably gonna pay for the sequel :)

Bu kitabı size şöyle tarif edeyim, kocaman bir kutu düşünün kapağını açıyorsunuz başka bir kutu bu böylece devam ediyor.. Olaylar tek bir seferde anlatılmamış ve ilk başlarda kız ne çabuk inandı filan desemde kitap ilerledikçe ne olduğunu ortaya çıktı. Bence güzel bir kitaptı okunabilecek türde. Sanırım 2. kitabıda var umarım hemen çevrilir.♡

Where do I start

Seriously...where do I start? Can I have a Max? Can I be born with a curse from a sorceress only to be sent to an alternate universe and fall in love with a hot vampire??? Can I have a Viggo and Mortimer to hand over 20 mil to "get me settled" too much to ask??? Seriously!!!! The last 10% I had to mentally slow my heart rate! So much happened it's like the edge of your seat scene in a movie! I'm so late on this series but I love K.A. Tucker so I have to read everything she writes. Time to start the next one!

Brilliant

This book had a pretty standard plot, and I felt like the beginning of the book moved WAY too fast and was unrealistic. BUT... It snagged me.

The love for Caden was... Your standard "see a vampire, fall in love instantly" combined with you "HE'S SO [standard "tall, athletic, and handsome" attractive description]" type of romance, but it was refreshingly countered by the more developed-over-a-long-term motherly love of Sophie, even if it wasn't professed until closer to the end.

The main character is... Well... Rather naive, as most of them are and the character development wasn't exactly realistic at some points, but it was there none-the-less and decent. She still retained some of her naivety, but by the end of the book she had at least matured in some VERY significant ways. She's a realistic 18 year old, at the very least, not written as if she was 16 or younger instead of her actual age. MUCH better than most authors manage to put into such a short, fast moving book.

And despite the book being very fast paced and the story line being sort of generic, there were some interesting plot twists and unique modification that I didn't see coming. It was well written, there was no childish language for the most part. All in all, it's a good example of what a short "mid-way" young adult book should be. Not quite mature, but not quite rainbows and butterflies, either. I liked that the book didn't have much of a happy ending, though there's more books to the series. It ended on a good note, I think.

I'd definitely recommend it to anyone looking for a quick read between books, especially for the 15 and up crowd.

There was such a cliche to the beginning of the book that I felt I knew what I was getting into. Oh, boy, was I wrong! There's so much going on that you *think* you know what's the solution but no. It was a really well thought out idea. It was difficult to know who was the good guy and who were the bad guys—there's the mystery! In the end, I recommend this book to mystery fantasy junkies :)

An interesting take on the young adult vampire romance, which was very good at parts, but the characters were very annoying at others. I don't think I'll continue the series.

Dislaimer: I think this is the first YA vampire book I've read, which is shocking since there are so many out there and the topic is quite popular right now. (I haven't even read Twilight) but I kind of get the idea that Anathema has a Twilight vibe to it. Good vampires have to protect human girl from bad vampires.

One of the things I enjoyed throughout the book was Tucker's descriptive writing; the way she described Evangeline's reactions to her new friends, and their unique talents, is done in such a way that the reader can guess at what is actually happening even when Evangeline doesn't quite understand it. I thought this was excellent, particularly when she encounters a vampire trying to use his power of persuasion on her. Excellent writing on Tucker's part.

While the writing was well done, I found the plot harder to believe and I just found too many holes in it. Viggo and Mortimer are disgustingly rich, and while it is explained how they attain this absurd amount of money, it just isn't believable that they would have so much disposable income. I honestly would have had a better time buying into this if it had just been said that the money was magical.

However, it was the rather dubious love story that I disliked the most. It's just so intentionally hot and cold, and the intense emotions are supposed to already be there after meeting twice. ONLY TWICE. But worse than this, was just how possessive and petty Evangline became. Regardless of all the other disturbing things happening to her she is fixated on the fact that her crush doesn't like her back and has a girlfriend. I just couldn't fathom how this was her biggest problem to focus on. There were times when Evangline just looked like a crazed stalker, and I pitied the actual girlfriend instead. The villainizing also felt to be too much, where Evangline's bizarre perspective is forced onto the reader.

The premise of the book was interesting, but parts were difficult to accept, such as Evangline's discovery of another world LIKE Earth, yet it was so similar it was essentially a clone (right down to the slang used, and understanding of how the world works). Perhaps this will be explained later on, but for Anathema it just didn't make sense. I'm also hopeful that some of the rules of magic will later on be fully explained, because they seemed to come out of nowhere for no good reason at times.

I'm unsure of how I feel about the ending. It was clearly a set up for more books, which I will read because this isn't a poorly written or unenjoyable book, but I would have liked some sort of closure in at least one way at the end and I didn't feel that Anathema had that. That being said, I am looking forward to the next books in hopes that they will be able to explain more of these questions and bring things together.

I wasn't so sure about this book, but the last half really sucked me in and now I got the 2nd book to continue with the story.