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Forever Yours
When Alec brings his dead girlfriend back to life, he soon learns that Callie must now kill to stay alive, and he must face a terrible choice: either watch as evil consumes her or kill her--again.
- GenresHorror
230 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1994
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David Pierce
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David Pierce is an independent film historian and archivist. He was formerly the Head of Preservation and Curator of the National Film and Television Archive at the British Film Institute. His articles have appeared in numerous journals, and his report on the survival of American silent feature films was published by the Library of Congress in 2013. He founded the Media History Digital Library, providing free online access to millions of pages of motion picture magazines and books. Pierce co-wrote The Dawn of Technicolor (2015) with James Layton.
David Pierce is an independent film historian and archivist. He was formerly the Head of Preservation and Curator of the National Film and Television Archive at the British Film Institute. His articles have appeared in numerous journals, and his report on the survival of American silent feature films was published by the Library of Congress in 2013. He founded the Media History Digital Library, providing free online access to millions of pages of motion picture magazines and books. Pierce co-wrote The Dawn of Technicolor (2015) with James Layton.
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January 30, 2024
“I’m not the girl you loved. Death does that to a person.”
Loved this one. It’s a bit of a slow burn, but worth it. So much of the first half is spent setting up the rest of the story that the climax is noticeably rushed in comparison, but I did appreciate seeing Alec and Callie’s relationship develop. I also feel like the explanations for the lab experiments were decently done. Very gruesome, poetic ending. I just wish the second half was a little more fleshed out.
Loved this one. It’s a bit of a slow burn, but worth it. So much of the first half is spent setting up the rest of the story that the climax is noticeably rushed in comparison, but I did appreciate seeing Alec and Callie’s relationship develop. I also feel like the explanations for the lab experiments were decently done. Very gruesome, poetic ending. I just wish the second half was a little more fleshed out.
August 14, 2021
When Alec's girlfriend, Callie dies in a tragic accident, he impulsively brings her back to life with a special liquid he created in the lab he works at. But when Callie comes back, she's not exactly herself - after all, Alec's "reanimation" potion had some side effects. Callie's angry, and resents being brought back.
"Sometimes, dead is better."
I liked this book, but wish the action would have started sooner.
"Sometimes, dead is better."
I liked this book, but wish the action would have started sooner.
May 14, 2025
Another reprint off of Amazon because a decent copy on Thriftbooks couldn't be found for a reasonable price.
David Pierce is the pen name of author Barry Varela.
Forever Yours is full of its own potential for spoilers. The back of the book tells you there will be the death of a character and that they will be brought back to life.
There is a prologue that foreshadows the deaths of four people because this book is told by the main character, Alec Baines.
Alec is in jail telling how he got there to us, the audience. His senior year in high school a new girl arrives to finish off the year and Alec falls for her at first sight.
Her name is Callie Mitchell, and she has a skeleton in her closet about why her family actual moved to Washington State from Ohio. Callie is into photography while Alec is working as an intern at a lab where he is trying to create a serum to preserve organs for transplants by experimenting on rats.
They are both intelligent kids and they fall in love. Alec's best friend Ian and his girlfriend Gina get along fine with Callie, but it is clear that Gina and Alec seem to have a chemistry all their own despite loving their significant others. Another hinderance to Alec and Callie's relationship is a classmate named Hillis.
He and Alec work at the same lab but Hillis doesn't get the same respect from the professors who work there. Alec has figured out that Hillis is using his own rats as test subjects to create steroids due to the rats' bloated size. Creating the steroid, Hillis sells it to the athletes at school and the nearby college, so football star Rueben and his teammates don't like anyone giving Hillis a hard time.
Callie doesn't particularly like Hillis, and it is because he seems to know the real reason why the Mitchell family moved to town. When Alec rebuffs Hillis trying to sell him the steroids to make the track team, he becomes bent on making Alec's life a living hell by first messing with Alec's lab and then going after Callie.
The secret comes out that Callie's older sister Jessie died in a fire while making a student film in California...a death Callie dreamed about before it happened. Now, Callie is convinced that her life is also to be just as short. Everything Alec tries to do to ease Callie's obsession with dying doesn't seem to help as their first Christmas together becomes their last.
A night at an old house exchanging presents and making love during an ice storm has Callie freaking out to try and get past a tree brought down by the ice which also brought down some nearby power lines. Alec is able to pull Callie away from the wires without meeting the same fate, but Callie is electrocuted.
Alec injects her with some serum he had in his car because he did the same to some of the rats that died in the sabotage of his lab by Hillis. They were electrocuted in their cage, but Alec brought them back to life and he plans to do the same for the girl he loves.
Being larger than a rat, it takes three days for Callie to live again after Alec digs her body up from her grave. Dazed at first, Callie doesn't remember what happened to her until Alec reveals the truth and Callie isn't too pleased. She swears Alec not to tell anyone that she is back, and he soon realizes that Callie isn't the same girl she once was.
What was once a happy romance has now taken a tragic and violent twist to the macabre with very detailed and visceral descriptions of the kills. The ending only makes it even worse nothing bittersweet about it...just an ambiguous and cryptic downer.
Ironically, that is why I really like Forever Yours.
Sometimes having it be a happy and snarky, cheesy sort of ending seems wrong in the fact that you had people dying in it. None of the characters except for a couple deserve their fates and what is done out of the best of intentions...doesn't go for an unrealistic outcome.
To haunt me even after just finishing this book as I write a review for it proves just how good it is and Forever Yours is a book I highly recommend.
David Pierce is the pen name of author Barry Varela.
Forever Yours is full of its own potential for spoilers. The back of the book tells you there will be the death of a character and that they will be brought back to life.
There is a prologue that foreshadows the deaths of four people because this book is told by the main character, Alec Baines.
Alec is in jail telling how he got there to us, the audience. His senior year in high school a new girl arrives to finish off the year and Alec falls for her at first sight.
Her name is Callie Mitchell, and she has a skeleton in her closet about why her family actual moved to Washington State from Ohio. Callie is into photography while Alec is working as an intern at a lab where he is trying to create a serum to preserve organs for transplants by experimenting on rats.
They are both intelligent kids and they fall in love. Alec's best friend Ian and his girlfriend Gina get along fine with Callie, but it is clear that Gina and Alec seem to have a chemistry all their own despite loving their significant others. Another hinderance to Alec and Callie's relationship is a classmate named Hillis.
He and Alec work at the same lab but Hillis doesn't get the same respect from the professors who work there. Alec has figured out that Hillis is using his own rats as test subjects to create steroids due to the rats' bloated size. Creating the steroid, Hillis sells it to the athletes at school and the nearby college, so football star Rueben and his teammates don't like anyone giving Hillis a hard time.
Callie doesn't particularly like Hillis, and it is because he seems to know the real reason why the Mitchell family moved to town. When Alec rebuffs Hillis trying to sell him the steroids to make the track team, he becomes bent on making Alec's life a living hell by first messing with Alec's lab and then going after Callie.
The secret comes out that Callie's older sister Jessie died in a fire while making a student film in California...a death Callie dreamed about before it happened. Now, Callie is convinced that her life is also to be just as short. Everything Alec tries to do to ease Callie's obsession with dying doesn't seem to help as their first Christmas together becomes their last.
A night at an old house exchanging presents and making love during an ice storm has Callie freaking out to try and get past a tree brought down by the ice which also brought down some nearby power lines. Alec is able to pull Callie away from the wires without meeting the same fate, but Callie is electrocuted.
Alec injects her with some serum he had in his car because he did the same to some of the rats that died in the sabotage of his lab by Hillis. They were electrocuted in their cage, but Alec brought them back to life and he plans to do the same for the girl he loves.
Being larger than a rat, it takes three days for Callie to live again after Alec digs her body up from her grave. Dazed at first, Callie doesn't remember what happened to her until Alec reveals the truth and Callie isn't too pleased. She swears Alec not to tell anyone that she is back, and he soon realizes that Callie isn't the same girl she once was.
What was once a happy romance has now taken a tragic and violent twist to the macabre with very detailed and visceral descriptions of the kills. The ending only makes it even worse nothing bittersweet about it...just an ambiguous and cryptic downer.
Ironically, that is why I really like Forever Yours.
Sometimes having it be a happy and snarky, cheesy sort of ending seems wrong in the fact that you had people dying in it. None of the characters except for a couple deserve their fates and what is done out of the best of intentions...doesn't go for an unrealistic outcome.
To haunt me even after just finishing this book as I write a review for it proves just how good it is and Forever Yours is a book I highly recommend.
March 20, 2017
I loved this book. I read it many years ago and I think this book got me into reading all the books I do today. I keep this book close to me because it was such a fun book. I have read it over and over many times.
November 11, 2015
A really interesting storyline but I felt the plot really comes up at half of the novel and the novel mostly on the relationship. Some horror readers may be turned off based on this since the other half of book is where the horror starts.
The afterdeath theme wasn't too much developed which is disappointing because it could be interesting
Still the main character seems relatable based on mistakes he's done and is really level headed that I want to know how he ended up and the second part of book have some great suspense as well.
I think this book is worthy of YA read but for horror it's just okay.
The afterdeath theme wasn't too much developed which is disappointing because it could be interesting
Still the main character seems relatable based on mistakes he's done and is really level headed that I want to know how he ended up and the second part of book have some great suspense as well.
I think this book is worthy of YA read but for horror it's just okay.
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