John claims it's to protect her from the Furies, who are hell-bent on vengeance against him. But she's been taken by John Hayden, Lord of the Underworld, to the place between heaven and hell where spirits gather before their final journey. Underworld: Seventeen-year-old Pierce Oliviera isn't dead.
But now things are getting dangerous for her, and her only hope is to do exactly what John says. There's a fierce attraction between them, but Pierce knows that if she allows herself to fall for John she will be doomed to a life of shadows and loneliness in the underworld. And when she was in the space between life and death, she met John: tall dark and terrifying, it's his job to usher souls from one realm to the next. If you plan on following true to the intended nature of Reading Week, I’d recommend this trilogy to keep you entertained.The Abandon Trilogy is Meg Cabot's heart-stopping paranormal romance series all in one eBook bundle containing Abandon, Underworld and Awaken.Abandon: Last year, Pierce died - just for a moment. When Pierce moves to the island her mom grew up on, she begins to see John more and more.Ībandon will grip you but will also make you laugh, reread it and laugh again. That is, until he meets Pierce.Īfter their first meeting in the Underworld, John keeps an eye on Pierce bailing her out when she gets in trouble, keeping her from harm’s way.
John’s task is to sort them according to these standards and send them off to their destiny. There are two lines in the Underworld, one for those who are good in their lives, and the other for those who did bad. “Heroes are the people who carry on despite their fear, because they know the job’s got to get done and they’re the only ones left to do it”. This mutiny accidentally resulted in his death, and his damnation to sort the dead. John Hayden was once a living boy who worked at sea before he decided to lead a mutiny against his ship’s captain. Her mother and doctors think that she was saved by CPR and hypothermia when in reality, she threw tea in the face of the Lord of the Underworld and escaped with her life. After drowning while trying to save a helpless bird caught in her pool, she was revived. Inspired by the Greek myth of Hades and Persephone, the main character Pierce Oliviera knows what it’s like to die. The first novel in Meg Cabot’s trilogy, Abandon. It hooks you and doesn’t let you leave until it is two in the morning and your eyes are getting heavy, but damnit, you just have to read one more page. The entire series spans over a very short period but will seem to be drawn out. Abandon ranks high amongst my reading list as one of my top three favourite trilogies.
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