Existence by Abbi Glines

4 Stars

What happens when you're stalked by Death? You fall in love with him, of course.
Pagan Moore doesn't cheat Death, but instead, falls in love with him.
Seventeen year old Pagan Moore has seen souls her entire life. Once she realized the strangers she often saw walking through walls were not visible to anyone else, she started ignoring them. If she didn't let them know she could see them, then they left her alone. Until she stepped out of her car the first day of school and saw an incredibly sexy guy lounging on a picnic table, watching her with an amused smirk on his face. Problem is, she knows he's dead.
Not only does he not go away when she ignores him, but he does something none of the others have ever done. He speaks. Pagan is fascinated by the soul. What she doesn't realize is that her appointed time to die is drawing near and the wickedly beautiful soul she is falling in love with is not a soul at all.
He is Death and he's about to break all the rules.

Existence was an interesting story. You start with Pagan, a teenager who could always see wandering souls that never spoke to her until one finally speaks-Dank. Who you later find out isn't exactly a wandering soul, but is Death himself. Dank was supposed to come and take Pagan's soul instead he falls in love with her and saves her.  Which is breaking the rules and he must pay. Meanwhile she also starts dating Leif. (What are up with the odd names?) You get some insight of Leif at the beginning when you find out he was adopted, but after they start dating you don't get much more information. His character starts to get boring, all he does is become lovey and mushy. 


Pagan finds out later that she must sacrifice herself so Dank won't spend the rest of eternity damned in Hell. At the end it seems everything is perfect until the last page. Of course a new problem pops up and it ends. Hence the sequel. 


In all I found myself liking this book. It was a page turner for sure. I have to give it only 4 stars though due to the familiarity of it. It has reminded me a lot of a few other books I have recently read. I would really have loved there to be a different twist.