Release Date: January 3rd, 2012
Publisher: Simon & Schuster books
Format of novel: Hardcover
Summary (From Goodreads.com): In the first novel of the Incarnation series, the immortal Seraphina grapples with a wrenching truth: Falling in love might mean succumbing to death.People say “love never dies”…but love might be the death of Seraphina.
Seraphina has been alive since the Middle Ages, when her boyfriend, Cyrus, managed to perfect a method of alchemy that lets them swap bodies with any human being. Sera ran away from Cyrus years ago, when she realized that what they were doing—taking the lives of innocent people—was wrong. Yet she doesn’t want to die, so she finds young people who are on the brink of death, and inhabits their bodies.
Sera has just landed in the body of a girl named Kailey who was about to die in a car accident. For the first time, Sera falls in love with the life of the person she’s inhabiting. Sera also falls for the boy next door, Noah. And soon it’s clear the feelings are returned. But she can never kiss Noah, because for her to touch lips with a human would mean the human’s death. And she has even more to worry about: Cyrus is chasing her. If she stays in one place for long, she puts herself—and the people she’s grown to care for—in great danger. Will Sera have to give up the one thing that’s eluded her for centuries: true love?
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I apologize for not really posting as much this week, I have been job hunting the last couple of days and getting my stories prepped up for watt pad and fiction press for updates. Any who, this story (Alchemy of Forever) is the first novel to William's series. When I first picked up this book, I was hesitant about it at first since it was a short novel for a debut. (It was only 260+ pages long). What brought me into this story was the summary before I went ahead and brought it. In my personal opinion, the summary felt like I was dealing with the concept of the philosopher's stone and the Elric brothers in Full Metal Alchemist. But after reading it, I found it more interesting in terms of the romance and how Seraphina yearned for a life outside of her eternal one.
The pacing was fast, and mostly well done, but I did loose the plot of the story in a few spots. The plot in general was amusing, though I wished I saw more of Cyrus being a creeper and affecting Seraphina more sinister-like rather than using simple magic tricks. The characters overall were pretty cool and original like the plot. I did sympathize with Seraphina at some points because she knew what she was doing was the wrong thing to do, but I didn't since she had been a part of Cyrus' plans for a long period and has killed innocent people so she can live more in a different body before it took her long enough to realize it was wrong.
In the end, the story overall was a decent debut for the series. I haven't found the sequel to this book yet, but I'm hoping to locate it soon or hear about it being out in stores near my hometown. The only thing I wished that this story had was more suspense and a little more interactions with Cyrus and Seraphina so I can feel the tension rise between them. And also have more characters involved in the plot as a whole. Other than that, the story was really good.
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