Series: Incarnation # 1
Genres: Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance, Young Adult
Publisher: Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers
Released: 3 January
2012
Summary: courtesy of goodreads.com Seraphina has been alive since the 1300's, made
immortal when the boy she was beginning to love back then, Cyrus, saved her
from death with a strange liquid - a method of alchemy that lets them swap
bodies with any human being. But now, in modern day America ,
Sera has decided that she can no longer bear the weight of stealing people's
lives so she can keep living on. So she decides to run away from Cyrus and end
her stolen existence once and for all. Her plan goes awry when she accidentally
takes the body of a dying teenager and feels forced to take over her life. When
the lines between Sera and Kailey's identity begin to blur, Sera finds a reason
to desire to live once more. But she can't shake the guilt of having taken
Kailey's life, even if she was dying. And what if Cyrus finds her?
For Fans Of: Elixir, My Name is Memory and Touching the Surface
My Review: The
Alchemy of Forever reminded of a firework, in that at the beginning it was
really enticing and exciting and fun with an initial boom and really grabs you,
but slowly things fizzed out and by the end I was asking myself why I had
bothered finishing. Because of the
pacing I felt that Alchemy fell into
the category of “novella” as opposed to a bonafide novel. I felt that things were pretty stop and go
from the beginning, and it also relies heavily on fads, specifically ‘Words
with Friends’. I have a really hard time
when novels rely on fads because it automatically dates them. As a matter of fact the only novel I’ve been
able to accept a fad in has been Flat Out
Love. Which worked because of the
characters.
For some reason I couldn’t really get behind any of the
characters in Alchemy. For someone who has been around for a couple
hundred years I felt like Seraphina should have been a little stronger and a
little less stupid. I mean, if she is so
set on dying than why is she afraid of Cyrus in the first place? Because it really didn’t make sense to me in
that respect it made it hard for the novel to make sense.
I don’t know, Alchemy
just felt really cookie cutter to me, I didn’t really understand the point of
the novel, I realize that books especially ya books are meant to be
entertaining, but I have a hard time when they don’t make any sense, as in the
point of them doesn’t really make sense.
I left this one asking more questions about than feeling like I had any
answers. I understand that with a series
there should be some questions left behind, but with Alchemy I felt like I had asked too many questions throughout the
novel to make it worth seeing how it ends.
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