Destiny

Destiny #1

by Deborah Ann

Danielle Kennedy is not one to believe in fairy tale love or destiny holding a plan for the future, nor does she believe in mythical legends, vampires, or spirits...

At sixteen, athletic, honor student Danielle has her life planned out: study hard, play soccer even harder, and slide through high school under the radar. It was a good plan, a solid plan, one that’s worked so far; until Cayden Bridwell—the longtime shy and brainy classmate she has ignored—rides in on his motorcycle and obliterates her plans. Now, life as Danielle knows it, will never be the same.

Wealthy Cayden—only recently coming into his own and learning the shocking truth, that as the Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, he is the chosen one, gifted with powers—has shyly stood back and watched unassuming and unsuspecting Danielle, grow into the beautiful girl she is, knowing all along of their destiny to be together, and waiting for the time to be right. After his rapid growth spurt and realizing his full powers and strength, that time is now! Cayden is intent on winning her heart.

But the euphoria of their intoxicating attraction is soon shadowed by despair; neither are prepared for the danger that will ensue, the lives that will be at risk, or the secrets they will be forced to keep, when they discover that destiny’s gifts come with a curse, opening their world to nightmares that become reality and mythical legends that become real, with immortal beings seeking to sway Cayden to the dark side to steal his eternal soul and powers—including Danielle, as his destined soul mate…

Destiny is a sweet and intoxicating fairy tale romance with a paranormal twist, and the first book in the Destiny series.

Come fall in love with Danielle and Cayden, as they discover the power and passion of an all-consuming first love and fight to protect each other and the life they were destined for...

Genres: Fantasy, Paranormal, Young Adult

505 pages, Paperback

First published September 26, 2012

About the author

Deborah Ann lives in Northern California with her husband and their two children, where she has enjoyed a long career in the Beauty Industry.

After years of reading with her children and passing on a love for books, Deborah was inspired to write the Destiny series. What started out in the beginning, as a celebration of a loving, young, innocent friendship, and the affecting separation after a move, spun into a mythical journey of the loving binds of friendship, deep family ties, and an intoxicating fairy tale romance, with the power of love that knows no bounds.

Memory Betrayal & The Deal followed, with a leap from young adult romance, to Contemporary romance. While it can be a balancing act at times, Deborah sneaks in as much time as she can to slip into the lives of her characters, and the magical world in which they live...

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Reviews

[Inna · Rating 4 out of 5]

Reviewed by Inna @Inna's Little Bookshelves
I have a love hate relationship with this. There are so many things I loved that were just great about this novel and then other things infuriated me to no end.
I'll start with the things I loved. The concept and premise. This was so different from any other paranormal romance there that going into it I really didn't know where the author was going to take that. The whole seventh son of the seventh son concept is great and you really don't see it to much out there.
I liked our main characters. Dani and Cayden were smart and knew what they wanted and they were in general likable characters. Cayden was sweet. He had the boy next door vibe and that really worked for him. Dani was determined and even though she wasn't one hundred percent rational at times she was likable despite being stubborn.
Okay so now here's what drove me insane. The romance. I can't believe I'm saying this. I am like the biggest romance, true-love, soul mate geek out there but the romance was both the best part of the novel and the most infuriating. It was amazing because they really do care for each other so much and their love is pure and all that but it annoyed me because they were so codependent. It's okay to love someone so much that you feel like maybe you're missing something when they're not there but this is taking it to the extreme. They go on talking about how they miss each other while they were separated for at most five minutes. It was an extremely codependent relationship with Dani always going on about how she needs him and she basically ignored everyone when she was with him. It was cute at first but towards the end of the novel it kind of had me rolling my eyes.
So this book leaves me puzzled. The concept was great but there wasn't all that much plot development in the novel and the romance was cute but it really pushed some buttons.

[Nicole · Rating 5 out of 5]

First of all this book was AMAZING! This book made it to my top five favorite books of all time. This book blew me away! Destiny has everything a paranormal romance reader could possibly want vampires, adorable true love, hilarious friends, action and a hot guy with magical powers that is actually sweet!

This book starts with Danielle who is nervous about starting school now that her best friend, Trista, has moved. Luckily she still has her friend, Kirby, to help her out. I know what your thinking, love triangle NO evil! But stop I swear there isnt one. Then we meet Cayden who has transformed from the little nerdy boy to the hot guy all the girls are swooning over. I loved Cayden SO much! He was caring, sweet, protective and a little bossy but you have to be to deal with Danielle sometimes. Danielle was an awesome MC she was funny, loyal and very stubborn. She is definitely not one to let people take care of her, she can take care of herself. Which is refreshing after all the annoying MC's today.

The relationship between Cayden and Danielle does happen pretty fast but they have known each other all their lives they just have never beem very close. In the beginning I was a little iffy about how Danielle only notices Cayden after he becomes hot but once you go into the story you realize Danielle is not vain. They have so many adorable moments that made me really connect with the characters. I think that's how you can tell a books good if you really feel for the characters. I even loved the secondary characters, Kirby and Adrian, they made me laugh and I thought it was adorable how they all stick together. Most of all I loved Caydens big crazy family, ESPECIALLY little Lily. I was like "AWE!" everytime she was in a scene!

This book has everything true love, magical powers, vampires, friendship and family. I know some are thinking this is just going to be another vampire book but I SWEAR its not, give it a read cause it is COMPLETELY worth it! I have to worn you cause there is a cliff hanger that will make you want to throw something and cry... Have fun reading!

[Mckenna · Rating 1 out of 5]

Okay, so anyone that reads my reviews know I only write about horrible books and great books. This is, by far, is one of the worst books I have every read. It lacks originality, a decent plot, and good characters. The only reason I gave this book one star is because Deborah Ann had to have serious balls to actually publish this. Speaking of, who the heck allowed this to be published?!
1. This is twilight with a few exceptions. One, witches instead of vampires. Two, the guy gets hot instead of a new girl.
2. That leads me to another reason. The main character, Danielle, is a shallow, wimpy idiot. Cayden has been in love with her for years and years, yet she doesn't even notice him till he gets hot. Oh, and as soon as he gets hot, he's all cocky and self-assured. No, just no.
3. The killer of so many books: Insta-love. On page 88 she tells him she loves him after one date. Then he tells her that they're going to get married one day. Doesn't even ask.
4. She is Bella from Twilight. At least Bella was original though. "His emerald eyes were mesmerizing...... Not a sign of the boy I'd grown up with. Amazing!"

There are too many stupid description od Cayden's perfectly sculpted face, like a greek god, or his mesmerizing eyes, or even his smell. She had several slip ups in school becasue of his freakin' smell. I would punch myself if that happened to me. Also, at the end of the book he leaves because of his family he also likes to keep secrets from Danielle. I hate this book with a passion. It's so cliched and predictable. I would read Twilight and those crappy romance books with shirtless guys on the cover before reading this again, or the sequel.

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE DON'T READ THIS BOOK! It will make you lose several IQ points.

Follow, friend, whatever. Beware of this book.

[Jericah · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is absolutely amazing! I had such a fun time reading it. Very interesting to have a twist on the caverns and many of the surroundings. Though, I will say the ending frustrated me just because I wanted more! Nice plot set up and establishing characters and their relationships. Fantastic book, a must read!!

[Brooke Hammond · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book had a GREAT foundation. I love the idea of it and the kind of back lore of seven son. I couldn’t stand them though when they actively started being together. The male lead really didn’t have a personality away from her. And you can say the same thing about the female lead is she didn’t really have a personality without him. Interesting enough I would’ve loved to seen them before he got his powers.

There was no chase they just looked at each other and instantly fell in love even though they have both known each other their whole lives.

I would love to see those books be re-wrote. Great idea not so good execution.

[Deborah Ann · Rating 5 out of 5]

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[Christy · Rating 1 out of 5]

WARNING ANGRY RANT!!!! This book started off so great and then it just stalled out completely after the first few chapters. Chapter after chapter after fricken chapter of them just talking to each other saying how much they love one another. It got old real damn quick and quite frankly pissed me off that I waisted $7.99 hoping for an epic love story with some vampire danger. There was 2 damn vampires in the whole damn book of 500 pages and they were in the early chapters!!! No adventure, no excitement, no nothing but "oh I love you...oh not as much as I love you!" I mean give me a break! You couldn't get me to read this book again I you put a gun to my head! -50 fricken stars it BLEW!!!

[Crystalvuletichotmail.com · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book started off very promising and I truely do like Danielle and Caydens relationship however....and I can't believe I'm saying this...there is to much romance. Typically I like some romance between the main characters, rather then the obnoxious build up, but this was right out of the gate and non stop. I wish there would have been more story line. It was like "oh I love you" "I love you more" non freaking stop. When there were dramatic scenes the writing was spectacular and the relationship between the characters is also amazing but its just way to many make out scenes and not enough plot IMO. However, I did like it enough to read the 2nd one. I'll review that next.

[Laura · Rating 1 out of 5]

So Danielle is starting school without her best friend for the first time...But don't worry, Cayden is there to help her. They apparently have gone to school together their whole lives but she never really paid attention to him. But after an unbelievably unrealistic growth spurt and purchase of a motor cycle to go with his new cocky attitude Danielle finally notices he exists. So by lunchtime she is riding on his motorcycle in a miniskirt (cuz that's classy) and getting all loopy over his scent (cuz that's not weird). Throw in just some of the most awkward, and eye roll inducing dialogue and you have a book that I gave up on in chapter 2.

[Sheila Altenbernd · Rating 3 out of 5]

I received this book as a Goodreads give away.

The book was well written and held my interest. It's a good love story between two young people, though their constant expressions of love for each other was little over the top. The characters are endearing.

I know this is book 1 of a three book series, but I expected it to have a story of its own that wrapped up at the end of the book and it didn't. It's like Deborah wrote the book and then just split the manuscript into three pieces.

[Xxcreativebunnyxx · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was an okay read but cayden did remind me of Edward Cullen a lot, plus the romance between the two main characters reminded me so much of Bella and Edward. Otherwise it was an interesting read.