A young girl meets the new, gorgeous boy in her homeroom
class and he finds her to be the best thing he has ever seen. The young girl,
who we learn is our protagonist, Scarlett, is immediately enamored with the new
boy to the envy of her best friend. Sounds pretty typical YA, but poor Scarlett
endured the loss of everything she owned in a fire when she was four years old.
With the loss of all things material, she also lost her first four years of
memories and this is where I was hooked. It is through the pages of Awake, by Natasha Preston, we learn
Scarlett was destined for greater things than a mere high school romance. She
was to be the sacrifice for a Irish Cult, Eternal Light.
We see the classroom relationship evolve into dates,
meeting parents and falling in love as Scarlett and Noah plan for their future
together. The underlying shadows of Scarlett's past is what kept me turning the
pages. I wanted to see what happened in those first four formative years of her
life to get her to this time period of blissful ignorance. Noah starts
questioning the missing years; Scarlett starts seeing visions and her part of
Eternal Life is slowly unveiled through the answers.
You can see the full review at Books & What Not.
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