Predestinada

The Vampire Journals #11

by Morgan Rice

Em PREDESTINADA, Scarlet Paine, de 16 anos, se esforça para compreender o que está lhe acontecendo, até despertar e perceber que está se tornando um vampiro. Afastando-se de seus pais e seus amigos, a única pessoa restante a quem ela pode recorrer é Sage, o garoto misterioso, que rapidamente se tornou o amor de sua vida. No entanto, Sage, cuja casa ela encontrara abandonada, desapareceu.

Scarlet, sozinha no mundo, sem ninguém mais para apoiá-la, procura suas amigos e tenta se reconciliar com elas. Tudo parece voltar ao que era antes até que elas a convidam para uma viagem a uma ilha abandonada no meio Hudson – mas as coisas perdem o controle e os verdadeiros poderes de Scarlet são revelados e saber quem são seus amigos e quem são seus inimigos se torna mais confuso do que nunca.

Blake ainda está interessado nela e tenta se reconciliar. Ele parece sincero e Scarlet fica confusa por ter escolher entre ficar com Blake ou esperar por Sage, que continua desaparecido.

Quando Scarlet finalmente encontra Sage, eles passam os momentos mais romântico de sua vida; no entanto, ela é atingida com a tragédia: Sage está morrendo, faltando apenas poucos dias de vida .

Kyle, entretanto, transformou-se no único outro vampiro restante no mundo, e está com uma fúria assassina, à procura de Scarlet; Caitlin e Caleb consultam Aiden e cada um deles embarca em diferentes missões – Caleb deve parar e matar Kyle enquanto Caitlin deve ir para a famosa biblioteca da Universidade de Yale, para pesquisar rumores sobre uma antiga relíquia que, dizem, pode cura e matar vampiros para sempre.

É uma corrida contra o tempo e pode ser tarde demais. Scarlet está se transformando rapidamente, mal é capaz de controlar o que está lhe acontecendo e Sage está morrendo a cada momento que passa. O livro culmina em muita ação e reviravoltas, Scarlet terá que fazer uma monumental escolha – uma que mudará o mundo para sempre. Será que Scarlet fará o sacrifício final para salvar a vida de Sage? Será que ela vai arriscar tudo o que ela tem em nome do amor?

Genres: Vampires, Young Adult, Fantasy, Fiction, Romance, Paranormal

179 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 3, 2015

About the author

Morgan Rice is the #1 bestselling and USA Today bestselling author of the epic fantasy series THE SORCERER’S RING, comprising seventeen books; of the #1 bestselling series THE VAMPIRE JOURNALS, comprising twelve books; of the #1 bestselling series THE SURVIVAL TRILOGY, a post-apocalyptic thriller comprising three books; of the epic fantasy series KINGS AND SORCERERS, comprising six books; of the epic fantasy series OF CROWNS AND GLORY, comprising 8 books; of the new epic fantasy series A THRONE FOR SISTERS, comprising eight books (and counting); and of the new science fiction series THE INVASION CHRONICLES. Morgan’s books are available in audio and print editions, and translations are available in over 25 languages.

TURNED (Book #1 in the Vampire Journals), ARENA ONE (Book #1 of the Survival Trilogy), A QUEST OF HEROES (Book #1 in the Sorcerer’s Ring) and RISE OF THE DRAGONS (Kings and Sorcerers—Book #1) are each available as free downloads!

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Reviews

[✨faith✨trust✨pixiedust✨ Dead Account; Not Coming Back · Rating 3 out of 5]

This one was surprisingly decent in many ways and astonishingly outrageous in others. The spoiler list:

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...he was more a grown man than a teenager.

Ah yes, the perfect boyfriend for her 16-year-old daughter

- Caleb shoots up the high school to try to get at Kyle, who's trying to get at Scarlet, who wasn't at the school. Maria (in a brief moment of friend loyalty) tells Kyle that Scarlet is with Vivian, but she isn't.

- Kyle also thinks Maria looks like Jennifer Lopez, at least according to the narration while in his perspective. Why "she looked like a young Jennifer Lopez" was the only way Rice chose to describe her was, well, a Choice™

- Kyle is truly iconic.

He stood, smiled wide, and said: "Welcome to the club."

I wanna join his club. He wants to literally eat the rich and I'm here for it. He also turns Vivian into a vampire, so we'll see how that goes. If they have some kind of weird romance, let it be said that he's like 35 and she's 16

- Caleb is on the run from the law because he shot up the school, so he steals a military plane to flee the police. Pretty sure he just ruined his entire career and life, but oh well

- For the first time in this entire series, we get evil priests. I'm not anti-organized religion but it was very strange to have every member of the Catholic church be a paragon of righteousness all throughout its history, so I guess this is a step in the right direction. This is ironic because Fated is the penultimate book in the series

- The evil priests seem to think that Spanish is Latin, or at least Rice does, because the priests "chant in Latin" and then the following text is literally just Spanish. Kinda reminds me of how the mystical fantasy language in Caraval is also literally just Spanish

- Vivian almost dies but Scarlet saves her, revealing her vampire powers to everyone. This was actually a pretty good character moment for Scarlet, who previously murdered some creepy guys in an equally good scene that made her seem like a bad person. Apparently, you can be as unhinged and psychotic as you want, as long as your victims are also bad people. Unless those bad people are Vivian.

...she knew that no one deserved to be dead—not even Vivian. As evil and cruel as Vivian was, Scarlett just could not let her die.

"Please don’t hurt me," he whimpered, crying. "I didn’t mean it. I don’t know what you are, but I didn’t mean it."

"I’m sure you didn’t," she answered, her voice dark, inhuman. "Just like I don’t mean what I’m about to do to you."

It's all very inconsistent

- Scarlet's name was occasionally spelled "Scarlett" (evidence of this is in the above quote)

- We learn that Scarlet has red hair. I feel that I should have known this, but this information is new to me. Her name is rather on the nose

- Besides the character moments, there were some other surprisingly decently written scenes here and there

- Caitlin breaks into the protected catalog of a library and stays the night to read all the books. She's lived my dream

-While in the library, she physically harasses a librarian and also acquires his contact information so that she can send spam messages to further harass him

- She discovers that there might be a secret society of vampires living underneath the Sphynx and that the clues to locating the entrance are in the Voynich manuscript. Dan Brown could never

- Proof of the above being in the book:

Caitlin suddenly felt certain that a lost vampire city did exist, that it was beneath the Sphinx, and that the key to discovering the entry would be found in the Voynich manuscript.

Caitlin sat up, realizing it made perfect sense.

No, Caitlin, it doesn't make any sense whatsoever, but whatever you say

- Blake SA's Scarlet at a party but honestly, it was in character because he's a simp and a douchebag

- Lore says that he has a cousin named Lore. I'm pretty sure he meant to say "Sage" but who knows what's true at this point?

- It was somewhat unclear, but I think Lore killed Maria so RIP Maria I guess

- Honestly, this was pretty decent, and unironically my favorite installment, if it weren't for the Voynich manuscript and the entirety of Sage's and Scarlet's "romance". Following the adult Caitlin and Caleb as they do adult stuff was pretty legit. From my experience with the Of Crowns and Glory series by Rice, it seems that she does a significantly better job characterizing adults, so why she seems to only write YA confuses me

- We learn Kyle's last name (we still don't know Caleb's) and oh boy.

Kyle Vicious

"My last name," Kyle said. "You probably think it's fake, right? It's not. Can you believe it? I was aptly named: I was born to kill."

Please let me join your club Kyle

[Nancy · Rating 5 out of 5]

OMG....Caitlin, Caleb, Scarlet...

I don't want to give away too much about this book but the contents, I couldn't put down. So well written and just amazing.

So the last book, #10 Craved, had an exceptional ending with Caitlin giving up vampirism to better the world. She would have done anything for Caleb and her love for him is so unbelievably strong. The world is a better place now that there has been a balance for immortal creatures – they don’t exist anymore…Now FATED….WOW! Caitlin now has to figure out why Scarlet is acting so weird as she’s approaching her 16th birthday. Well, she is turning into the “last/first” vampire coming BACK into existence.

Fated takes you on a whirlwind of emotions, especially if you have been a true reader of The Vampire Journals series, and there are some things that made me want to hurl my ereader and other things that I just wanted to jump in and help Caleb and Caitlin. Polly and Sam don’t have a very big role in this book – but glad to see they were included in this one. Aiden has a small but very important role.

Thumbs up and look forward to #12……

[Rishab · Rating 2 out of 5]

I didn't like the teen drama happening in middle of all this. Why are they even going to school. Kyle maybe important next book idk. The father arc is also over exaggerated.

[美津子 Mitsuko Mitsi 佐々木 · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 Estrellas de 5

Recta final y sigo sin poder conectar para nada con Scarlet Paine -inserte pockerface-

En este libro vemos como en cuestión de unos 2 o 3 días Scarlet se ha transformado en Vampiro, no sabe que pasa por su cuerpo, cambios, cree que no tiene a nadie, sus amigas le dieron la espalda y saca la conclusión de que no puede hablar con sus padres porque quieren acabar con su vida. Así sin más el amor que sentía locamente por Blake desaparece y ahora su verdadero amor es Sage...

Por otro lado volvemos a ver cómo el malvado de Kyle se convierte en vampiro y quiere transformar a todo el mundo para su beneficio pero antes necesita saber más sobre su creadora, Scarlet y es así como la comienza a buscar.

Mientras tanto Scarlet acude a una fiesta con sus amigas porque se supone hacen las pases aunque Blake se sincera con ella y le dice que siempre ha sido ella, Scarlet no deja ya de pensar en Sage y que debe encontrarlo, pues ya está por terminar su tiempo en la tierra de los de su especie, los Inmortales. Pero algo sucede y queda expuesta Scarlet como "el monstruo que es" y es así como sale huyendo y de alguna forma se reencuentra con Sage y comienzan a vivir su romance apasionado viendo la obra de Romeo y Julieta.

Al mismo tiempo Caitlin y Caleb, que ya le cree a Caitlin y por alguna extraña razón que no se explica confía en ella y vuelve a ser el Caleb enamorado de la Caitlin versión humana después del reinicio de sus vidas sin vampiros. Van a buscar como acabar con Kyle y encontrar la cura para el vampirismo de Scarlet para que no tenga que fallecer.

Y en un giro de los acontecimientos Sage es atrapado por su primo y llevado ante sus congéneres Inmortales para que en el poco tiempo que les queda de vida, lo torture por no cumplir su misión con Scarlet. Así que de alguna forma ella se entera y da con el lugar de donde está y va a intentar salvar la vida de Sage aunque tenga que sacrificarse.

No mentiré, el libro se rescata por momentos, sobre todo dónde Caitlin vuelve a ser la Caitlin de los primeros libros, cuando ella era la protagonista. De los demás personajes que puedo decir que no me haya quedado ya, Scarlet no es la misma niña inteligente y perspicaz, Blake siempre es maltratado, Sam y Polly están de adorno, Kyle es Kyle y Caleb sufrió el síndrome de Maxon de La Selección en el spinoff.

Muchas cosas suceden por obra y conveniencia del guión y bueno, eso no está del todo mal si lo implementan bien, pero una vez que te paras a meditarlo la verdad nada tiene sentido ya. Pero lo que más me incomoda es la mención de muchos personajes que quedan solo en eso, pareciera que serían muy importantes o saben algo y después ya más nunca te los mencionan o salen. Cómo los sacerdotes del Vaticano.

Le tengo amor a la Autora y le tengo cariño a Caitlin y Caleb, amor a Blake, pero está montaña rusa de subidas y muchas bajadas en la calidad de la historia me tienen con un sin sabor de boca, pero ya falta 1 libro así que lo terminaré. ¿Si lo recomiendo? A estás alturas ya no se que decir, si solo quieres algo para desconectar, si, pero si buscas algo más elaborado, te diré que lo tomes bajo tu propio riesgo.

[Mounika Lakkakula · Rating 3 out of 5]

In the 11th book of the series,this time with all returning to normal self,it seems quite well at the first but then suddenly change occurs in Scarlet.The series of events that occur in the book are intriguing and quite indulging,it's a light hearted read for all who have read the 10 books.I quite liked Sage and hated Lore...quite good descriptions and story.Waiting for the next books in the series

[charlotte crane · Rating 4 out of 5]

Loved it

I loved the whole series of books especially the 1 thru 8 which I would gave 5 stars. I was in awe how she intertwined travel ing thru time with historical events that made perfect sense some a little bit over the top but when you read the whole series makes sense. the proof reader needs to improve the errors but other than that, I can't wait for book 12.... C

[Brent Soderstrum · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is the 11th book of the Vampire Journals series by Rice. Like the other 10 books, this one deals with teen drama, has editing errors and should have been compiled, along with the others, into two books. One book dealing Caitlin and Caleb's adventures and the second dealing with Scarlet.

In this book everyone is looking for Scarlet, who is looking for Sage, who is looking to escape his family. Scarlet has taken off (put intended) and no one can find her. She is escaping from her family who she thinks wants to kill her and her friends who hate her with the passion of teen hatred. Scarlet realizes she wants to find Sage and spend what little time he has left with him. Sage you see is dying along with his family after living a short time of only 2,000 years. An immortalist taken so young.....

Two others are after Scarlett. Kyle, who she has added to the vampire ranks in the last book and Lore who is Sage's cousin. The both leave a trail of death and destruction in their hunt for Scarlet.

The book ends with everyone racing to some island where Sage is being held captive by his family. The final book should be interesting.

[Faye · Rating 3 out of 5]

Rating: 3.5
Age: Pg-13
Just not sure if I can make it through 7 more books..I usually always finish a series but dang this series is frustrating..and not in a good way. Has so much potential to be great but....
Mrs.C

[Rosemary Hughes · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have submitted this review after listening to the audiobook of this title. (Goodfm)

The pursuit of the changed daughter continues, on a number of fronts, but the confused and mixed up teenager leads a merry chase.

[Heather Heater · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good, but needs editing

It's trule a decent book. But it almost feels like it could have been a new spin-off series from the first set of books. I had a hard time getting into the last few, and the lack of editing still baffles me.

[Princess Tiffany · Rating 5 out of 5]

Not real sure when I finished but it's been awhile.

As all the vampire journals this one did not deny the mind of the surprises, it was fantastic Ì personally recommend this series.
Happy reading

[Sonia Knippshild · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good series. Bad editing.

[Brenda Fisher · Rating 4 out of 5]

Could not put it down. Can't wait for the next one.

[Rowan Creech · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting Twist of Fate

Good book with an interesting but predictable twist of fate. Interesting concepts to an age old tale. Fairly good book

[Jill Parry · Rating 5 out of 5]

WOW

I read this book so fast, but now I'm at the end and realize that #12 is out yet!!!! Now, the wait!!!

[Theresa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Book 11 of the Vampire Journals series.

Starts right after Scarlet has fled into night after the fight at the bar. She has just become a vampire, the last of her kind, until she bites someone.

*Spoilers*

This the only story I have come across where a person becomes a vampire after one bite. Being as they have to bite to drink blood, that would make A LOT of people vampires and not very practical.

Her parents, the police, Sage, Kyle and Lore, just about everyone, are all searching for her. She’s not really trying to hide, so can’t understand how at least Sage and Lore couldn’t find her.

This is definitely a light teen high school story. The characters are very childish. Her friends are jerks, especially Vivian. Maria is very gullible and this ‘like’ business is annoying. Do they really still say that? If so, stop it. It just makes you seem uneducated. Even the police are incompetent and aren’t very organized. Maybe I’ve just been reading too many adult vampire stories sand have lost patience for the lighter stuff. But then the ‘Real vampires’ series was light hearted and I like that one.

The only real bad guys are Kyle who is very smart, just mean. And Lore whose sole goal is jealousy of Sage, not really his family. Seems like he’d be happy to be the only one left immortal. Even the Vatican priests were killed way too easily.

I hate stories that end without some kind of scene/event ending, just an infuriating cliff hanger. And there’s no hint as to when the next one will be written. It sounds like it may be interesting with the Sphinx connection. But it also sounds exactly like the earlier books storyline, only this time Caitlyn is searching for a key to help save Scarlet, instead of looking for her father.

Quick thoughts: 1)Why couldn’t Scarlet open her wings on the island.

2)Where were the ‘Immortals’ in the previous books? If they’re been around 2000 years, they should have popped up somewhere in Cailyn’s travels.

Fave scene: Caitlyn researching at the libraries and the Voynich manuscript.

[Angel Lavey · Rating 2 out of 5]

I have just finished reading every book in this series and whilst as a concept the plot is good the execution of the overall story is very flawed.
For instances:
Spelling mistakes in every book,
Referring to a character by the wrong name,
Superfluous words in sentences,
Plot holes everywhere.

I do not wish to state much more in terms of the overall story arc in this series as I do not want to give spoilers; but it is true that the plot tends to follow a deliberate pattern so there are certain events that happen in each book. That may be the general idea by the author as these books are meant to be suitable for teenagers but in my opinion the author wrote herself into a corner and had to find a way to hit the reset button to continue the series.

A good proof reader would be a huge boon to these books and make them easier for readers who rely on Braille or who are learning English as a second language.

[kerry burgess · Rating 3 out of 5]

after reading all books i question why in the start of the books there is a quote rivals vampire diaries and twilight well i have never read or watched twilight but i love vampire diaries... and this is nothing compared to that my advise for the author is be more imaginative i could tell what was going to happen ie who Caitlins father was and also needs to get a better editor to review books errors are beyond joke

[Brooke · Rating 4 out of 5]

missing the history lessons!

[william Goodrow · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fated

I wonder what the next book will be like. I was really enjoying this book all the way through and then a unique ending. Read this book and find out what I mean.

[Gemma · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love the series hope the next one is out soon

[Amber Mitchuson-english · Rating 3 out of 5]

Really might well have ended in the middle of a sentence! Seriously!

[Krys · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lots of suspense and twists and turns. Wish Scarlet would have grown back bone more where it came to her friends though. Caitlin and Caleb are at least working together.

[Claudia Benitez · Rating 4 out of 5]

Love this series, since book 1. Can't wait for book 12. I wish the books were a little longer.

[Jessica · Rating 3 out of 5]

Doesn't end, still waiting for the next book..

[Sylvia · Rating 1 out of 5]

This series has dragged on for wayyy too long...

[Angela · Rating 2 out of 5]

Just reading the books to finish out the series. Took me 5 months to pick this series up again because it's just not keeping my attention anymore. Hope the next one is better. Onto book 12!

[Tootie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Why did it have to end like that?!!!! Ugh... when does book 12 come out??? I need more!!!