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Riven
Step Go to a coffee shop with your murderer. Discuss the details of your imminent death. Step Meet your murderer at 6:45 PM on Friday Step Drive together to an old, abandoned cabin in the middle of the woods. Step Pray that the boy you love and your two best friends don't find out what you have decided to do until it is too late. Step Die at the hands of Dark Magic. Again.....
413 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2011
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March 23, 2025
A plot might have eventually arrived but after almost 100 pages, I couldn't wait any longer!
Imagine a cross between TWILIGHT and a reverse of the time portal of OUTLANDER in which the "eternal" ancient male is somehow transported forward into a modern female teenager's time. So far, so good and for 20 or 30 pages as the novel's basic scenario is set up, the writing is actually quite good and entertaining if not compelling or gripping.
But then the next 60 or 70 pages is effectively a hot and sweaty, breathless, hormonal, and seriously teenage make-out session in which the young couple imagine themselves as being inseparable and married by virtue of an ancient Druid rite of swearing themselves to one another.
Wow! I sure hope the target audience for this was early teenage females because it couldn't possibly appeal to anyone else. I picked up RIVEN with high hopes because the author was Canadian and reasonably local to me but it just refused to click.
Imagine a cross between TWILIGHT and a reverse of the time portal of OUTLANDER in which the "eternal" ancient male is somehow transported forward into a modern female teenager's time. So far, so good and for 20 or 30 pages as the novel's basic scenario is set up, the writing is actually quite good and entertaining if not compelling or gripping.
But then the next 60 or 70 pages is effectively a hot and sweaty, breathless, hormonal, and seriously teenage make-out session in which the young couple imagine themselves as being inseparable and married by virtue of an ancient Druid rite of swearing themselves to one another.
Wow! I sure hope the target audience for this was early teenage females because it couldn't possibly appeal to anyone else. I picked up RIVEN with high hopes because the author was Canadian and reasonably local to me but it just refused to click.
February 24, 2014
This book took a bit to get into but I couldn't put it down at the end. Very unique with a somewhat predictable plot line. All the knots are tied at the end if it however but leaves some wiggle room to bring characters back for a sequel.
June 7, 2021
Let’s get two things straight, this book is flawless. Second Carol Biddle is forever the best Grade 8 English teacher any student could have. Her ability to bring plot and timeless romance together is incredible
July 13, 2017
I enjoyed seeing my Canadian roots shine through in the locations! I found this book in Windsor, Ontario on one of the sculptures along the Detroit River from the #ibelieveinbookfairies ! Loved it.
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