Life Eternal - Yvonne Woon

Recently, I've been reading Life Eternal, by Yvonne Woon.

It is the sequel to bestselling, Dead Beautiful.

"I don't want to be with someone who completes my soul; I want someone who will open it. I want to be able to choose."

---- An extract from the book.

*****

I AM IN LOVE WITH DANTE BERLIN.

HE IS MY SOULMATE. HE SAVED MY LIFE.

This may sound perfect, but I know the truth. Dante is an Undead. Soon he will turn twenty-one, death will finally claim him, and I will lose him forever. Only one thing can save our love -- the secret of the Nine Sisters. 

Yet as I get closer to the secret, I am haunted by nightmarish visions that hint at a discovery so powerful it may cost me my life. But no sacrifice is too great to keep me and Dante together.

Would you risk your life in exchange for eternal love?

---- The Blurb.

*****

Renee Winters has changed. when she looks in the mirror, a beautiful girl with an older, sadder face stares back. Her condition has doctors mystified, but Renee can never reveal the truth: she died last May, and was brought back to life by the kiss of her Undead soul mate, Dante Berlin.

Now, her separation from Dante becomes almost unbearable. His second life comes close to an end, and each passing day means one less that she will spend with the boy who shares her soul.

Just when Renee has almost given up hope, she learns of the Nine Sisters -- brilliant scholars who, according to legend, found a way to cheat death. She can't shake the feeling that they are somehow connected to her dreams, strange visions that hint at a discovery so powerful, and so dangerous, that some will stop at nothing to protect it.

Renee thought she knew the truth about life and death. But there is a secret woven through history that holds only the hope for Dante and Renee. Unless they find answers soon, their time together is doomed to be cut short.

*****

 After reading Dead Beautiful, I couldn't control myself from reading Life Eternal. This book is even more interesting with even more mysteries than the first book. The answers to all the mysteries are revealed but for one: who killed Renee's parents and does it have something to do with the secret Dante and Renee just found? I guess I'll have to wait until the final book in the trilogy, Love Reborn, comes out...

This book is again a MUST read. I'd recommend it to everyone, especially to teenage girls, and to those who have read Dead Beautiful. Filled with intrigue, history, chilling moments and a gorgeous setting, Life Eternal is a very enjoyable and well-thought sequel to Dead Beautiful. Regardless of the lack of action during the first half of the book, Life Eternal's captivating world building and torturous cliffhanger will, for sure, keep readers glued to the pages and begging for more!

Life and Death collide in the breathtaking sequel to Dead Beautiful.

Personally, I give this book a rating of 4/5.

"One big plot hole but I still loved it. Yvonne Woon is a great writer." --- Goodreads.