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The Dark Divine (Dark Divine (Cloth)) (Hardback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The Dark DivineGrace Divine, daughter of the local pastor, always knew something terrible happened the night Daniel Kalbi disappeared--the night she found her brother Jude collapsed on the porch, covered in his own blood--but she has no idea what a truly monstrous secret that night held. The memories her family has tried to bury resurface when Daniel returns, three years later, and enrolls in Grace and Jude's hi...
Full description- Publisher: Egmont USA
- Published: 01 December 2009
- Format: Hardback 372 pages
- See: Full bibliographic data
- Categories: Fantasy | Romance
- ISBN 13: 9781606840573 ISBN 10: 1606840576
- Sales rank: 53,122
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The Dark Divine by Bree Despain
Also reviewed on my blog, the Vintage Bookworm.
I've seen this book around the blog-o-sphere a bit and have heard great things about it, so when I went to the library on Monday I saw it and had to get it. All the people who have said this book is great and a refreshing new take on werewolves were absolutely right. Despain had a brilliant way of throwing in mythology of the Loup Garou (and other forms of the werewolf) into our every day world without making it seem like it was mythology and fantasy. It had just the right amount of each in it to make it a wonderful and intriguing story.
She also has the type of writing that you fly through the pages thinking you are not as far in as you think. Which I absolutely love in a novel! I don't get this feeling very often with a new series. Usually it only starts happening once I've read a series for a little while.
I loved Grace, the main character. She annoyed me at times, but she was a great character. I love how they made her family seem like the perfect family of a pastor, but then as you read on you see that they have the same troubles as any other family has. Grace was very selfless and tried to be what everyone would expect from a preacher's daughter, and more. But she still struggled with trying to be the person she wanted to be, and not what everyone expected from her.
This debut novel was fantastic and I can't wait to read the sequel. With the ending the way it was, I'd completely forgot there was a sequel just released last December. It didn't leave any cliff hangers and made you think it was the end of the story. Can't wait to read the Lost Saint! by Amanda -
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Reviewed by Samantha Clanton aka "Harlequin Twilight" for TeensReadToo.com
Three years ago, Grace Divine saw her brother, Jude, standing on their front porch covered in blood. Three years ago, Daniel disappeared. Three years later, Grace still doesn't know what happened or why Daniel left.
Now, Daniel is back and those feelings that were buried just under the surface have come rushing back for Grace. Although not everyone is happy to see Daniel return - namely Jude, who has yet to forgive Daniel for whatever it was that happened three years ago. Now Grace must decide between being loyal to herself, or being loyal to her brother, and the consequences that both choices hold.
Lying within all the threats and warnings surrounding Daniel, and Grace being involved with him, is still a secret that she needs an answer to. But the closer she gets to the truth, the more Grace starts to miss the innocence her life held before Daniel came back and before she found out something that affects her and everyone she holds dear. Can she save the ones she loves without losing herself, and her soul, in the process?
This is one of those stories that is almost impossible not to fall into. Once I started, I couldn't put it down, not even for a minute. Daniel starts as your typical (ish) bad boy (I love when he's first introduced into the story!), and continues to push and pull you into this "is he or isn't he?" type of wonder throughout most of the story.
Grace isn't the typical "dumb girl falls for bad boy" character either; she's not as simple as we've come to know lately, and yet she's not so complex that she's unrelatable. I actually enjoyed Grace, as she's very real. She gets flustered and annoyed as anyone else would, she has conflict, and she doesn't just make her decisions and say to hell with everyone and everything else. Of course she has her impulse "don't think, just do" moments, but everyone has those, and she takes the time to think about how her choices are going to affect the people around her.
And like most of your bad boy types, Daniel is funny. He has these lines that just literally made me laugh (and get funny looks from the people/animals in the room), and he's not the only one. Each of the characters seem to have their moment(s) of amusement, even when it's not particularly supposed to be funny.
There are so many moments in THE DARK DIVINE that will make you laugh, and even more that will make you simply think. One of Grace's biggest struggles comes from her religious background and beliefs (and being the daughter of the local pastor doesn't really help her cause much), and that's something else that makes her as a character easy to relate to.
This is one of those books that has something for everyone; it's mysterious, romantic, fun, thrilling, and has a twist that made my jaw drop. It was like, I knew there was a twist, but I could never quite put my finger on what it was going to be, and that's very refreshing in a world where the twist is usually given away from the beginning.
This is not your typical novel, and it's not one you'll want to miss.
*Gold Star Award Winner! by TeensReadToo
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