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“Meanwhile, I was reduced to staring at the wiry, gray chest hair puffing out of Mr. Meyer’s polo shirt like overgrown steel wool and wondering whether or not he had ever considered waxing��.

Well that’s an ... interesting way of describing something.


“As I looked at him, I felt a certain fondness deep in my heart, but I shook the feeling off.��

Damn it, she sees a pretty guy for the first time, describes his appearance and clothing in detail, and she has a “special bond�� with him. Fantastic.


“Another growl came, and then very heavy footsteps �� like T-rex-shaking-the-water-cup-Jurassic-park-style heavy footsteps��.

This is how the first action scene is introduced. Just sayin��.


“But I wasn’t afraid. A calmness washed over me, and my mind analyzed at a lightning pace. Strange memories and thoughts that didn’t belong to me flooded into my mind: faces and violence I’d seen long ago in different times. I looked up at Will, whose face sparked the clearest and fondest memory. I knew I had to fight now, but I needed my weapons.��

Are you freaking kidding me??? She gets the memories of reincarnated lifetimes so she never has to actually learn how to fight? Or have to get to know this Will guy? It’s just GIVEN to her? Biggest case of deus ex machina ever? I think so.


“’I’m going to name him Marshmallow,�� I announced.��

She’s talking about a car. The morning after she fights a demon or something. *sigh* Rich girls.


“‘You rich girls and your stupid names for your cars,�� Chris said.��

I like this guy.


“We drove Kate’s BMW ... Kate stopped to ogle a table topped with shoes by Channel ... fondle a particular bag in the Valentino collection ... I decided on a cute, strapless, cream Badgley Mischka cocktail dress ... I knew I had the perfect matching black Marc Jacobs satin shoes ... adventurous black mesh-front Dolce& Gabbana bustier sheath dress .... we went to eat lunch at P.F. Chang’s ... Louis Vuitton boutique with a new bag ...��

Jesus H. Christ.


“I nodded, imagining what I’d do with tens of millions of dollars. Oh God �� the shoes I could get with that.��

The Chosen One to save the world, ladies and gentlemen.

By the way, sidenote �� I’m getting really tired of these really long explanations from Will. They’re really boring. It’d be way more natural if they just incorporated the answers in the story instead of these page long infodumps. They’re making my eyes water.

Oh! Other sidenote �� Why exactly is this girl the Chosen One? I mean, she’s only good at fighting because of these memories, and even then, she doesn’t put her sacred duties very high on her priority list (just after her birthday party and movie night). Plus, she’s pretty shallow and not very bright. She’s actually a pretty normal teenager, which is fine, but if she’s a Chosen One, she shouldn’t be so ordinary.


“Why would he say something so dismissive and hurtful? Didn’t he understand how important my birthday party was to me? Wasn’t I important to him?��

Oh, the pseudo-problems of upper middle class teenage girls. She bitches that her dad is never around, when he’s the one working to pay for her stupid car and her party. I’d love to be rich for a day. It’d be kinda cool to know what it’s like when my birthday party going wrong is actually a real problem (I don’t think I’ve had a birthday party since I was nine).


“The reaper stepped toward me. ‘I am Ragnuk, and I am going to eat you now.’��

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Oh, man, I actually laughed out loud at this. That’s scary stuff, right there. Anyways, this was fun �� actually, no fun at all �� but I’ve got a huge stack of awesome books I can’t wait to read, and since this probably won’t improve my life in any sort of way, I’m dropping it. The writing is some of the worst I’ve seen in YA lit, and that’s saying something.