Book Review: Abandoned 

By: Meg Cabot

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When reading the summary of this book I was definitely intrigued:


".......But now she's moved to a new town. Maybe at her new school, she can start fresh. Maybe she can stop feeling so afraid. Only she can't. Because even here, he finds her. That's how desperately her wants her back. She knows he is no guardian angel, and his dark world isn't exactly heaven, yet she can't stay away...."


After reading some of her other books I had high expectations,  that's probably why I was so disappointed. I'm a big mythology fan and I thought a modernized story of Persephone sounded promising. Abandon has an interesting premise but the story never lived up to its potential. The story is slow and dragged on.
The main character, Pierce, felt one dimensional. She is characterized as caring about other people and not herself. But whenever something bad happens she blames it on someone else. I found her difficult to relate to.( she doesn't even know who Homer is!) While on the opposite end her "lover" if that's even what you would call him, sounded interesting and I wish he had been included more instead of just the beginning and end. Speaking of the romance in this novel I thought it was just pathetic. She talks about how he such a horrible person and moody. Then out of nowhere "His lips came down on mine....The world vanished around us." She asks herself why they haven't done this before. Where did that come from? I thought she didn't like him? As far as the writing goes it was just a jumbled mess. From the beginning  she talks about this accident and all these problems with John. Not until over halfway through the book do we even get to know what even happened. Most of the book consisted of flashbacks. It would be in a middle of a conversation with someone and then out of nowhere BAM, you are in a completely different event. Half of the time I found myself asking, "Where are we again?" Although there were some interesting parts, I wish she had written it less jumbled and didn't make the story draaaag on so much. The beginning and ending were the most interesting parts. I'm glad I only checked this book out from the library and didn't spend the 20 dollars on it. I really want to give the series another chance when the new book comes out in May 2012.