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Precious Blood (2013)

by Tonya Hurley(Favorite Author)

3.09 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1442429526 (ISBN13: 9781442429529)

languge

English

genre

Paranormal Fantasy

publisher

Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

series

The Blessed

review 1: Bueno... voy a ser sincera. Estoy leyendo cinco libros(incluyendo a este) y cada vez más tengo ganas de leer otros, de los que tengo mayores expectativas. Durante el verano tengo ganas de leer un par de libros en inglés porque quiero aumentar mi vocabulario, además de otros en español, y si no avanzo con éste se me va a ser bastante difícil.Voy a hablar del libro en sí. Ya lo he dicho mientras iba avanzando: el autor no sabe escribir. No sé quien es. Será graduado en Literatura Inglesa con tres posgrados por la universidad de Oxford, o será un vagabundo; no me importa, no sabe llevar una buena historia. Porque es buena. Me interesó mucho cuando la leí. Me llamó la atención que un libro mainstream hablara de religión.Pero tarda demasiado en llegar a un punto.... more Y mientras tanto, lo que pasa son cosas que ya se han escrito mil millones de veces: ex-novio habla con chica que todavía duda de lo que realmente siente por él(me chupa eso, ¡presentame al chico! ¡Decime algo! ¡Cómo se ve! ¡Cual es su personalidad!), chica trata de suicidarse por razones tan claras como una foto sacada con cámara frontal, chica es famosa(es una situación con la que nadie puede identificarse; ¿acaso la gente normal es aburrida?), chico sexy y misterioso(demasiado misterioso) no tiene personalidad en absoluto... si quiero algo de eso simplemente le pido prestado el primer libro de Hush, Hush a una amiga.No tengo razones suficientes para seguir la lectura. No me atrapó para nada hasta ahora. Voy a incluirlo dentro del desafío de este año. Un libro que no haya terminado no hará la diferencia. Además, no pienso terminar un libro que es bastante largo si sé que me va a aburrir.Lo dejo acá. Si alguien vive en Buenos Aires y lo quiere, está más que bienvenido a negociar un precio o proponer un intercambio. Está en perfecto estado. Aviso que yo misma lo compré de esta manera, y ya entiendo a la chica que me lo vendió cuando lo hizo por un precio que sería inferior a la mitad del que tendría en una librería grande.
review 2: Precious Blood (Book 1 of the Blessed series), by Tonya Hurley“Three lost girls, each searching for something. But what they find is beyond belief.Lucy, Cecelia and Agnes find themselves in the emergency room of a Brooklyn hospital at their lowest points. All are rebels running from their lives and themselves, plagued by broken hearts and broken dreams.Enter Sebastian: mysterious, compelling, seductive.He brings each of them what she longs for… but in the battle for his heart, will the girls lose their souls?”Yet another book I had for my birthday by a fellow Queen of Teen shortlisted author! This wasn’t quite what I was expecting, but it was definitely an interesting read!From the description, I was expecting something more along the lines of fantasy, so when religion played a substantial part in this, I was pretty surprised. It also had less romance in than I was anticipating from the blurb.The book was written in third person, so you got to see different characters – not just Cecelia, Lucy and Agnes – and learn what part they played in the story, too, which was great when it got to a point where you didn’t know who to trust anymore! There was a brilliant twist, too, that I so did not see coming. It took me a while to get into this, and while I did think it moved a little too quickly sometimes, I was keen to finish it and see what happened to the girls, and if Sebastian really was the bad guy. It was tense, there was mystery, and I absolutely loved loved loved Cecelia! She was totally awesome.(Also, just in case any of you are thinking of reading, there may be a slight trigger warning right at the start, with a suicide attempt by one of the characters? I mean, you don’t see the actual attempt; the book starts with the three girls in the ER on the same night, and one of the girls is there from a suicide attempt. So yeah, I’m throwing that out there just in case.)I did feel like I wanted to see more of what the girls felt at times, because there was a lot going on and I wondered what they were thinking and that wasn’t always explained.An enjoyable read (despite not being what I was anticipating!) and I expect I’ll buy the next book to see what happens to the girls, but right now I’m going to move on to reading some of the other Queen of Teen and YALC authors! Next up – Entangled, by Cat Clarke. less

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