The Eternal Ones by Kirsten Miller (reviewed by Bear Schacht)

Have you ever fallen in love at first sight? Do you long for places you've never been? Do you often experience the sensation of dejavu? If you've answered yes to any of these questions, you may have experienced a previous life.

Haven Moore is a girl trying to survive a few more months until she turns eighteen so she can go to New York to find Ethan. Just a few problems, namely that the has not been to New York, or met someone named Ethan, but she knows a lot about both. She knows this stuff from the visions she has had since a very young age.

Nevertheless she escapes from her grandmother, goes to New York and finds the guy she thinks is Ethan. He whisks her off to Rome, which is where they met in a previous life.

I enjoyed this book, and it was written well enough that I changed my mind a few times about wether or not this Ethan guy (now called Iain) was a good guy or a murderer. I also thought that the idea of people who retain memories or skills from their past lives was pretty interesting. I think that it would come in handy to have some skill, without the hassle of actually learning it :)

I would recommend reading The Eternal Ones, but it actually coming out until August, so you might have to wait...

(Haha!)

(I mean, that is really too bad for you.)

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I have to agree with Bear, this is one of my favorites of the year so far. Such cool past-lives stuff going on. The author, Kirsten Miller, has an amazing blog for the book that has these really neat "Who Were You?" past life vignettes. Go read!!

Bear reviewed an ADVANCE READER'S COPY (ARC) of this book, meaning he got a chance to read it before it was published (six months before it was published, that's why Bear was laughing...) and he had a chance to let the library know if it he thought we should purchase it for our shelves or not.

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