Hey! I will be reviewing one of my favorite book today; Sweet
Evil by Wendy Higgins, all the info (pages, publisher, etc) will be down below
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enjoy this review!
Title: Sweet Evil
Author: Wendy Higgins
Pages: 464
Genre: Young Adult Fiction – Fantasy (Angels & Demons), Romance
Publisher: HarperTeen
Release Date: May 1st, 2012
Reading Level: Young Adult & up
Synopsis
Embrace the Forbidden
What if there were teens whose lives literally depended on being bad influences?
This is the reality for sons and daughters of fallen angels.
Tenderhearted Southern girl Anna Whitt was born with the sixth sense to see and feel emotions of other people. She's aware of a struggle within herself, an inexplicable pull toward danger, but Anna, the ultimate good girl, has always had the advantage of her angel side to balance the darkness within. It isn't until she turns sixteen and meets the alluring Kaidan Rowe that she discovers her terrifying heritage and her willpower is put to the test. He's the boy your daddy warned you about. If only someone had warned Anna. Forced to face her destiny, will Anna embrace her halo or her horns?
What if there were teens whose lives literally depended on being bad influences?
This is the reality for sons and daughters of fallen angels.
Tenderhearted Southern girl Anna Whitt was born with the sixth sense to see and feel emotions of other people. She's aware of a struggle within herself, an inexplicable pull toward danger, but Anna, the ultimate good girl, has always had the advantage of her angel side to balance the darkness within. It isn't until she turns sixteen and meets the alluring Kaidan Rowe that she discovers her terrifying heritage and her willpower is put to the test. He's the boy your daddy warned you about. If only someone had warned Anna. Forced to face her destiny, will Anna embrace her halo or her horns?
Sweet Evil Book Trailer:
My Thoughts
Sweet Evil is about the lives of the children of fallen
angels or “dukes” in the book, each one of the twelve “dukes” or fallen angel
was in charge of one of the twelve deadly sins (wrath, adultery, substance
abuse, lies, gluttony, greed, envy, lust, pride, theft, hatred and murder). The
children of the dukes have… special abilities; they could see and feel others
emotions and for the females they usually had another special ability, like
persuasion. The sons and daughters of the “dukes” are supposed to help their
fathers by influencing the people around them to do the sin that their father
is in charge of.
Anna Whitt (main character) is a sweet, innocent girl, who
has always been different from her peers around her. She doesn’t exactly fit in
with everybody and she doesn’t know who her mother or her father are. Patti is
Anna’s adopted mother who tries to protect her from the harsh world as much as
she can. Then there is Jay Anna’s best friend who introduces her to his
favorite band. In walks Kaiden a bad boy drummer, he oozes lust and is the boy
every girl dreams of. At the beginning, what Anna doesn’t know is that Kaiden
is more similar to her then she knows.
Anna is soon revealed her true heritage, which explains her
weird powers, and discovers that the mysterious Kaiden is a son of a duke.
Surprisingly Anna isn’t the one out there like her, but yet again she is
different; her father is a duke and her mother is an angel. An anonymous message sends these two out on a
sudden road trip to L.A. Along the journey Anna peels back the tough layers of
Kaiden one day at a time. As they travel together Kaiden’s instinct to do more
then play friends rubs onto pure hearted Anna.
When I first bought this book I was intrigued by its synopsis
but I was also reluctant to read it. The synopsis interested me because it had
something that are in most books these days but completely different at the
same time. The whole teens fighting for their lives thing is quite common these
days, but I have never heard of a book where the teens had to be bad influences
to survive! What made me reluctant was that, I was very deathly afraid of it
being boring and totally cliché. What motivated me to read the book is when my
family and I decided to take a road trip ourselves to Seattle and Vancouver, I
had brought Sweet Evil and Twilight, and I had finished Twilight on the way
there, so I had no other choice then to read Sweet Evil on the way back. Surprisingly I loved it! I literally couldn’t
put it down. The internal fight Anna had
to stay true to herself actually felt realistic. What I thought made Anna’s
good girl persona real is that, Higgins didn’t make her a prude. What I loved
most about the book though is the tension between Kaiden and Anna; a bad boy
and a good girl not exactly original but it is a classic.
Sweet Evil had an interesting mythological blend but wasn't cliche at all! The book was fantastic, I loved that Wendy Higgins didn't shield
away from the darker and heavier side of things, it made things a little more
interesting. This book had an angel/devil romantic chemistry, that I
particularly enjoyed but there were parts of the book that were mysterious or
suspenseful. This book was automatically a favorite when I finished it and I couldn't wait to read the sequel Sweet
Peril. I give this 5 out of 5 nail
polish bottles.
Princess (Jen)
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