The Eternity Cure by Julie Kagawa – a Review

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Book Description:
Allison Sekemoto has vowed to rescue her creator, Kanin, who is being held hostage and tortured by the psychotic vampire Sarren. The call of blood leads her back to the beginning—New Covington and the Fringe, and a vampire prince who wants her dead yet may become her wary ally.

Even as Allie faces shocking revelations and heartbreak like she’s never known, a new strain of the Red Lung virus that decimated humanity is rising to threaten human and vampire alike.

Review:

The Eternity Cure is the second book in Julie Kagawa’s Blood of Eden series. Four months after we left off in Immortal Rules, Allie is still looking for her sire, Kanin. She can feel the pull, and the dreams she has are real, as she sees him being tortured by the psycho vampire, Sarren, who is the major villain here.  Along the way following the trail that she hopes will lead her to Kanin, she comes across her blood brother, Jackal, whom she would like nothing better then to kill him.  Jackal was one of the bad guys in Immortal Rules, and though he is still not to be trusted, not to mention dangerous; his character added much humor to the story, and strangely, you end up liking him somewhat. 

They both agree to help each other in finding Kanin, as Sarren is a master vampire beyond redemption.  They also want to find the cure to the virus that is killing humans, and vampires.  Allie as usual, is a tough kickass heroine, and in this book, she accepts more of what she is…a dangerous vampire.  I loved when Zeke showed up, and the love between the two of them is very much apparent, even with the knowledge that this is an unlikely romance between a human and a vampire.  I liked Zeke in the first book, but loved him even more in this one.  His love for Allie was real, and he would do anything to protect her.  Allie loved Zeke too, but she worried about the monster inside her, if uncontrolled, would hurt him.  But aside from that, it really is a nice romance.

Make no mistake, this is a dark and at times very tense story, with the virus, the victims insanity and killing, and the torture from the bad villains.  But it is an exciting story, though a bit slow early on while Allie was traveling trying to find Kanin.  One of the great things of Kawaga’s writing are the characters she creates; loved Allie & Zeke, even if it seems like an ill fated romance; Jackal, the bad boy who in this book you either laughed with him or wanted to kill him; Kanin, who was more like the sire/father figure that Allie could trust & depend on; Sarren, one of the worst villains, and a total wacko; Salazar, another villain, and Stick, her former nerd friend. The ending was a slambang of an  ending, that tore your heart apart, and yet things were left open for the next book. I can’t wait.

Reviewed by Barb

Copy provided by Netgalley