Series: Immortal Games (bk. 2)
Genera(s): Paranormal Romance/Urban Fantasy
Subjects: supernatural, magic, wishes, horror,
immortals, revenge
Setting: Boston, Massachusetts
POV/Tense: 1st person POV, past tense: Edie (Edith)
Kramer
Age/Grade Level: Teen
Length: 372 pgs.
HC/PB: Hardcover
List Price: $17.99
Publisher: MacMillan: Feiwel & Friends
Summary/ product description: “Learn the rules of the
game…and then play better than anyone else.
Through
a Faustian bargain, Edie Kramer has been pulled into the dangerous world of the
Immortal Game, where belief makes your nightmares real. Hungry for sport,
fears-made-flesh are always raising the stakes. To them, human lives are less
than nothing, just pieces on a board.
Because
of her boyfriend Kian’s sacrifice, she’s operating under the mysterious
Harbinger’s aegis, but his patronage could prove as fatal as the opposition.
Raw from deepest loss, she’s terrified over the deal Kian made for her. Though
her very public enemies keep sending foot soldiers—mercenary monsters committed
to her destruction—she’s not the one playing under a doom clock. Kian has six
months…unless Edie can save him. And this is a game she can’t bear to lose.
My Review: Public Enemies is the sequel to Mortal
Danger. I sadly didn’t enjoy it as much as the first book (that I gave 4.5
stars). I was often confused, maybe because I forgot what happened previously.
Lots of the stuff in this book is too unbelievable and hard to imagine. The
best part was the romance between Kian and Edie. Edie and Kian
both are interested in intellectual things, like science, classic movies, and
poetry. It’s set in modern day Boston. Edie goes to a private school called
Blackbriar Academy.
To recap, Edie used to be the school laughing stock:
ugly, overweight and friendless, but very smart. She attempts to end her own
life, but is stopped by Kian, who makes her an offer that changes her life.
Kian tells Edie she can have 3 favors, like a genie giving 3 wishes. When she
burns her first favor, she asks him to make her beautiful. Edie spends her
summer leaning about science and getting used to her beauty and planning her
revenge on the popular crowd she calls the Teflon Crew. Edie
learns that getting revenge isn’t all it’s cracked up to be and that everything
comes with a price.
Edie is dealing with immortal who were created by the
collective conscious of human beliefs and imagination. Their existence is owed
to us. Edie is being watched by the Harbinger, a trickster who made a deal with
Kian to keep Edie alive. In exchange, Kian only has until he’s 21 to live and
will be eaten (drained) by the Harbinger. Harbinger is kind of like Loki or
other trickster gods. He’s kind of ridiculous in the way he acts and dresses.
Chaotic, I guess.
There’s Dwyer, who’s the enemy and the Sun God (Apollo/Baulder).
Wedderburn who’s a winter god and also who Kian used to work for. There are
other kinds of creatures and being too. There’s Buzzkill, the killer clown who
was an Internet urban legend. There’s a creature called the Chuthulu. There’s
mythological monsters and there’s even demons.
You may enjoy Mortal Danger if you enjoyed: Any books
by Brenna Yovanoff, Gretchen McNeil, Josephine Angelini, or Kendare Blake. Also
mythology series like Darkness Becomes Her or Percy Jackson or Fury.
Cover Art Review: Not a fan of this cover. The girl
looks like the evil queen from Snow White/Once Upon a Time.
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