The book starts with Evangeline her parents are dead and she’s been passed around in the foster system. I really got confused at the beginning of the book and when it ended, I had NO idea how the author came up with all that! What a crazy and amazing imagination! Can’t say I’ve read anything like it. I tried to explain this book to my husband and JUST doing the basics…it took over 5 minutes. In a world where everyone has motive to lie for personal gain, Evangeline must decide which deception is least likely to get her killed.

She slowly unravels the mystery surrounding Sofie and friends, and the reality of the bites and the “dreams.” What she discovers is far more mysterious and terrible than anything she could have imagined. When she wakes up with bite marks on her neck, the fairy tale quickly turns into a nightmare. She’s even willing to dismiss her vivid dreams of mob-style murders, beautiful homeless people living in caves, and white-eyed demons that haunt her each night as figments of her imagination-especially when one of those figments is the gorgeous Caden. With such generosity and kindness, it’s easy for Evangeline to dismiss certain oddities… like Sofie’s erratic and sometimes violent behavior, and the monstrous guard dogs. Willing to do anything to keep it, she accepts a job as Sofie’s assistant and drops everything to fly to Manhattan, where she is thrust into a luxurious world of Prada, diamonds, and limitless cash.

When Evangeline meets Sophie after literally stumbling upon her café, she believes she’s found that connection. About to turn eighteen and feeling like a social pariah, she is desperate to connect with someone. Her foster parents have the emotional aptitude of robots and her classmates barely acknowledge her existence. This book has vampires, alternate universes, sorceresses, billionaires… what DOESN’T it have?Įvangeline has spent her teenage years in obscurity. I don’t understand why the cover has her blue. I don’t know if it’s because of lack of creative juices or lack of understanding of the book…I procrastinated like 2 days to write a review on this book.

Anathema by K.A. Tucker