Monday, March 24, 2014

Another Little Piece by Kate Karyus Quinn




If February was my contemporary month, I think March is turning out to be my mystery, twisted, eerie month.

It started very eerie.  A girl with no memory wearing a garbage bag made me wanna skip pages to find out what happened to her.  Then it got eerie confusing then ended with me still confused as hell.  This book is unputdownable and something you wouldn’t wanna end, coz you still have tons of questions.  This should be turned into a series or have a novella coz I swear, after finishing, I was like “what the f*** happened? I think my copy is missing pages!!!”
Annaliese Gordon was last seen bloody just outside a high school party then went missing.  She was found a year later, at another state, not knowing how she got there, what happened to her and she has a feeling that Annaliese Gordon, the girl who’s supposed to be her, is not her.  At first I thought it was just some simple memory loss then as she recovered some memory and with the stuff Eric was saying, I thought she was probably an alien or a spirit with body snatching powers.  I would have been lucky if she was that so I’d at least have a word to describe her other than monster or a devil.     When we say “make a pact with the devil or make a deal with the devil” that’s her.  She’s kinda like the Devil of Love.  You make a deal with her to make someone love you in return she’ll take your body.  It’s a very inviting deal till it comes to the swapping bodies part.  It’s not really a swap since the old body turns to dust after Anna, her real name, takes your body and your life.  The take over process is grossly horrifying.  Fans of dark and twisted will love it, I did.  You’ll also love the characters coz they are all strange.  Eric is also a monster/devil who’ll help you get revenge in return for your body. Dex, he see’s death.  Kinda like Noah in Mara Dyer.  But the sick part is, he tries to take a video of it.  As the story progresses, the confusion regarding Annaliese’s identity get’s cleared up but Kate Karyus Quinn does not like making our lives easy.  As one question gets answered, another question pops up.  Some without answers.  Who’s the Physician? What’s the physician? What exactly does the Brujas do? Was Frankie born like that or was he also just turned into a devil of revenge like Anna turning into a devil of love? What are they really? Why doesn’t Frankie know of the Brujas? And what the hell happen after she turned in to the man Dex calls monster?  And how does the Physician chose the victims? 

I love this book but I don’t like having so many questions after I’ve turned the last page. It gave me a headache, a good but frustrating one. But if it was the author’s intention to get people confused and hanging till the end, this deserves the highest rating possible.
Another Little Piece is kinda like a modern twisted fairy tale that teaches us that we always have options.

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