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3 Stars
"She was mine. I owned her soul…until Death stole her heart."
This novella was fun to read since it was in Leif's POV, and it covered his POV for both Existence and Predestined. The problem for me was since it was covering both books and it's just a novella, it jumped from scene to scene. I guess another way to describe it is, it was very choppy. There wasn't very much extra about him though. The scenes mainly just went back over what was being said. The only thing extra that I learned was pretty much the few times he talked to his father about Pagan. Which all were pretty much the same. Leif asking for help and his father telling him to just take Pagan. That's why I gave it only 3 stars. It could've been better wrote. It could've given us more information about Leif like most novellas from other POV's do. Honestly, unless you're bored and want more of this story while waiting on book three, I don't really see the point in reading it.
4 Stars
You would think after helping save her boyfriend from an eternity in Hell that things would go back to normal. Well, as normal as life can be when you can see souls and your boyfriend is Death. But for Pagan Moore, things are just getting weirder.
The high school quarterback and reigning heartthrob, Leif Montgomery, is missing. While the town is in a frenzy of worry, Pagan is a nervous wreck for other reasons. Apparently good ‘ol Leif isn’t your average teenage boy. He isn’t even human. According to Death, Leif doesn’t have a soul. The quarterback may have skipped town but he’s still showing up in Pagan’s dreams... uninvited.
Dank has known from the beginning Leif wasn’t human. But he hadn’t worried about a simple soulless creature. Now, he realizes he made a grave mistake. Pagan’s soul has been marked since birth as a restitution, to a spirit so dark not even Death walks near it. Dank knows saving Pagan’s soul won’t be easy but Pagan is his. And he’s already proven he’ll defy Heaven to keep her. If Hell wants a piece of him too, then bring it on.
I really enjoyed Existence, but I gotta say Predestined is AMAZING! You get to see a lot more back story to the characters. The book flows well and can be read in a short sitting.
I was completely swooned by Dank in the first book but not so much this one. He spent very little time with Pagan. I did really love to see his interaction with Pagan's mother though.
I love how Abbi Glines gave us more insight into relation of Pagan, Wyatt and Miranda. You get to see bits of stories from their past.
I have to say I fell a bit more in love with Leif in this book. Which is good because I was upset with how little Leif was mentioned in book one. You get to see more into his past with Pagan and his life story. You find out his father is evil and Pagan's soul has been promised to Leif due to her mother asking a voodoo witch for help in saving Pagan when she was little and was going to die. Even with all that you start to feel sorry for Leif and care for him. Or at least I did.
What I thought was interesting is you find out Wyatt and Miranda's souls are soul mates. Also that Pagan's "soul mate" is her ex-boyfriend Jay, which I think we will see more of in book three!
All in all it was a great book! I will definitely be waiting for book three. At this moment I am reading "Leif", a novella that is set in Leif's POV. Exciting! I am also looking into more of Abbi Glines books!
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.
