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| Original Title: | Dead Beautiful |
| ISBN: | 1423119568 (ISBN13: 9781423119562) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Dead Beautiful #1 |
| Characters: | Annie, Brett Jacobs, Renee Winters, Dante Berlin, Eleanor Bell |
| Setting: | Attaca Falls, Maine(United States) |
Yvonne Woon
Hardcover | Pages: 464 pages Rating: 3.96 | 12150 Users | 1355 Reviews
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| Title | : | Dead Beautiful (Dead Beautiful #1) |
| Author | : | Yvonne Woon |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 464 pages |
| Published | : | September 21st 2010 by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
| Categories | : | Young Adult. Fantasy. Paranormal. Romance |
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On the morning of her sixteenth birthday, Renée Winters was still an ordinary girl. She spent her summers at the beach, had the perfect best friend, and had just started dating the cutest guy at school. No one she'd ever known had died. But all that changes when she finds her parents dead in the Redwood Forest, in what appears to be a strange double murder. After the funeral Renée’s wealthy grandfather sends her to Gottfried Academy, a remote and mysterious boarding school in Maine, where she finds herself studying subjects like Philosophy, Latin, and the “Crude Sciences.” It’s there that she meets Dante Berlin, a handsome and elusive boy to whom she feels inexplicably drawn. As they grow closer, unexplainable things begin to happen, but Renée can’t stop herself from falling in love. It’s only when she discovers a dark tragedy in Gottfried’s past that she begins to wonder if the Academy is everything it seems. Little does she know, Dante is the one hiding a dangerous secret, one that has him fearing for her life. Dead Beautiful is both a compelling romance and thought-provoking read, bringing shocking new meaning to life, death, love, and the nature of the soul.Rating Out Of Books Dead Beautiful (Dead Beautiful #1)
Ratings: 3.96 From 12150 Users | 1355 ReviewsColumn Out Of Books Dead Beautiful (Dead Beautiful #1)
Vain. Vain. Vain. Seriously, does character depth not exist in teen books anymore? For one, I hated how the author kept starting with the word "Startled" and other words, such as:"Slowly, I...""Confused, I...""Later, I...""Startled, I ..."Then you have Dante Berlin. He's described as a God. So what the hell is Renee doing with him if she's an "average girl"? The words used to describe him made me want to vomit. Get real, Woon, no one looks like that. She didn't even describe ONE flaw to himThis was crazy!! It was like a mixture of Harry potter and twilight (the good bits). It was a bit predictable at times but at the start and in the middle I had no idea what was going to happen! Loved it!
Vain. Vain. Vain. Seriously, does character depth not exist in teen books anymore? For one, I hated how the author kept starting with the word "Startled" and other words, such as:"Slowly, I...""Confused, I...""Later, I...""Startled, I ..."Then you have Dante Berlin. He's described as a God. So what the hell is Renee doing with him if she's an "average girl"? The words used to describe him made me want to vomit. Get real, Woon, no one looks like that. She didn't even describe ONE flaw to him
TBR Reduce Challenge #34- 2012(Olivia)Renée Winters had a wonderful life. She has a best friend named Annie and a hot boyfriend named Wes. She's just about to start her sophomore year and made it on the varsity lacrosse team. But everything changed when Renée spotted her dad's car on the shoulder of Redwood forest. Panicked, Renée raced inside, almost like something was propelling her to where she could find them and sure enough, there on the forest floor are her parents, cold and motionless
What a great book! Honestly all it takes to enjoy this book is to get past the slight similarities to Twilight. (But really, what book doesn't share some of Twilight's nonsense these days? :p) So once you get past the fact that yes, she moved from a warm sunny place and yes, she moved to a colder place and yes, the heart throb is a creepy, closed guy who is chilly then this book is AWESOME. I call it the MUCH BETTER version of Twilight. I mean, dead people are so much cooler then vampires, am I
Look, a YA paranormal romance! Shall I poke it with sticks?Caveat: I'm well aware that YA PNR is a niche every bit as stringent as Steampunk or Regency. I've got no issue with judicious use of recycled tropes, at least in theory -- that's what genre fiction is, after all. ...But this book could've been so much better.As far as Twilight imitators go, Dead Beautiful isn't awful. It's competently written. It successfully conveys a mysterious, macabre atmosphere. It has some rather dark
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