First there are nightmares.Every night Ellie is haunted by terrifying dreams of monstrous creatures that are hunting her, killing her.
Then come the memories.
When Ellie meets Will, she feels on the verge of remembering something just beyond her grasp. His attention is intense and romantic, and Ellie feels like her soul has known him for centuries. On her seventeenth birthday, on a dark street at midnight, Will awakens Ellie's power, and she knows that she can fight the creatures that stalk her in the grim darkness. Only Will holds the key to Ellie's memories, whole lifetimes of them, and when she looks at him, she can no longer pretend anything was just a dream.
Now she must hunt.
Ellie has power that no one can match, and her role is to hunt and kill the reapers that prey on human souls. But in order to survive the dangerous and ancient battle of the angels and the Fallen, she must also hunt for the secrets of her past lives and truths that may be too frightening to remember.
By Courtney Allisson Moulton
Hardcover, 453 pages
Published February 15th 2011 by HarperCollins / Katherine Tegen Books
Genre: YA Paranormal/Fantasy
3.5 out 5 stars
Decent but not overtly engaging read.
It was good packed with some good action. There were a lot of fighting scenes, in which our main character kicks lots of evil-reapers butts.
Ellie, the main character, is a seventeen year old girl who's reincarnated every time she dies, brought back for the sole purpose of killing the reapers from the Grim. She's what they call a Preliator, aka a warrior, who's been alive for thousands of years. She doesn't know how she came to be or even where she came from. She just is. She also has a Guardian. That is Will, and it is his job to protect her and make sure she defeats the evil and try to avoid the Apocalypse that could maybe happen. The demonic reapers come in all kins of forms, but they mainly just hunt humans and hope to create an army for Lucifer for the upcoming end of the world.
It's a very interesting premise, and I've always loved the plot line where the characters are expected to save the world in some sort of way. In Ellie's case, it's to kill off the reapers.
While it was interesting, and I was captivated at some moments, I was confused at some places, like how or when she was supposed to acquire back her memory from her existence in the past thousand years or so--I also simply did not understand why her father was so mean to her. I feel like there must be a reason for that, but if there isn't, then his hatred and cruelty seems like a forced factor to make the reader feel sorry for Ellie. But I'm hoping that's not the case.
Will, her Guardian, was a cool guy.He's a dramatic man and is always claiming how there is nothing more important than keeping Ellie safe and protecting her. Sometimes those lines made me smile, and sometimes they made me roll my eyes--kind of like Ellie's reactions. But I still loved his character. I felt sorry for him; he's a tortured guy who's been living an immortal life and has had to live through each one of Ellie's death than had to wait for her to come back before he could be with her again. He blames himself for all her deaths, and he's determined that nothing should interfere with his duty as her Guardian, including his feelings for her.
I felt the rest of the characters were seemingly forgettable. Her mom was kind but she didn't seem to question much of Ellie's activities. There were also all of Ellie's friends--Kate, Rachel, Landon, and so on. They all seemed to blend into one another and I couldn't really distinguish any difference among them.
Overall, the book was good. A not too boring read but not entirely engaging.
It's got some good action and a little romance, though, and I'm interested in knowing how Ellie will overcome this Enshi problem, a problem that could get her killed forever.
So I'm on the lookout for the next books now.
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