All You Desire

July 15, 2011

Haven Moore and Iain Morrow's Italian escape (The Eternal Ones, 2010) is cut short when a crisis pulls them back to New York City and into the orbit of the Ouroboros Society. 

While Iain had been taking Haven to historic sites to jar memories of the past lives she shared with him and her best friend Beau Decker, Beau makes some discoveries of his own courtesy of a hot guy on Facebook claiming to be his soulmate. But shortly after flying up to New York to visit his mystery man, Beau disappears, leaving only a cryptic text message for Haven. Despite the risk that Adam Rosier might find her—and learn that Iain is still alive—Haven and Iain hop a plane to the city so they can search for Beau. Incidental characters from the first novel are used to optimum advantage as a host of related subplots support the novel's tension. Adam transitions from blanket evil into a richer character and true enigma, even as ancient enemies of his secretly move against him. Haven finds herself needing him—and needing to get close to him—putting both her and Iain in difficult positions. The previous novel's witty narrative voice only returns for the last act of the story, slightly undermining the story line with the most at stake in a quick wrap-up.

A multi-layered mystery with (mostly) rounded characters. (Paranormal romance. 12 & up) 

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November 1, 2011

Gr 8 Up-This sequel to The Eternal Ones (Penguin, 2010) can stand alone. The story follows Haven and Iain from their lovers' retreat in Florence, Italy, back to New York City, where Haven's best friend from her hometown of Snope City, TN, and brother from a previous life, Beau Decker, have been abducted. She again becomes immersed in the organization of reincarnates via The Ouroboros Society, led by the enigmatic Adam Rosier, who was also Haven's lover from past lives; he completes the love triangle. Adam has begun a school for young recruits to the Ouroboros Society, whose talents he hopes to develop and use, ostensibly, to the benefit of mankind. But Phoebe/Pythia, one of 12 sisters and a soothsayer, has other plans and blackmails Haven into helping her try to capture Adam. The reincarnated leaders of good and evil, Pythia and Adam, are presented in the guise of Order and Chaos, which, along with reincarnation, creates a rather sophisticated subtext. However, the writing is light and moves along at a brisk pace, focusing primarily on the love triangle. New York City's historical architecture makes a perfect backdrop for the reincarnated characters.-Meredith Toumayan, Langley-Adams Library, Groveland, MA

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October 1, 2011
Grades 8-11 Haven and her partner, Iain, both reincarnated from previous lives together, have been hiding peacefully in Rome since the close of The Eternal Ones (2010). Then a distress e-mail arrives from Haven's best friend, Beau, who is missing in New York City, throwing the couple into a new mystery. Enter more struggles of love, power, and good versus evil. Fans will probably not mind Haven's repetitive angst or the numerous plot elements that require suspension of disbelief, and the visions from a fourteenth-century Florence life richly expand the characters' histories and motivations.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2011, American Library Association.)