Book Review

Ann Aguirre is at it again! Mortal Danger is the first in her new series called "The Immortal Games."  I finished this one in 2 days!

Mortal Danger by Ann Aguirre

Edie Kramer is the butt of jokes, and ridicule of the school, and she's tired of it.  On a bridge ready to commit suicide, Edie is interrupted by Kian, a mysterious teenager that offers her a choice.  She can have 3 favors as long as when she receives all 3, she is at the mercy of the company to fulfill 3 favors for them.  Edie accepts this, and with the first "wish," she chooses to be beautiful.  Kian makes arrangements for Edie to go away for the summer at a Science camp to make the transformation believable.  When Edie returns, things go her way.  The Teflon group (the cool kids) immediately warm to her and want to be her friend.  Edie's plan for revenge is going perfectly.  Until some of the group start dying in horrific ways.  Edie never signed up for that, and now she must protect her friends and family from vying companies that both want her indebted to them for life.

Mortal Danger is unique.  It is original.  Ann Aguirre has such an incredible way of taking older story ideas and plot lines and changing them, morphing them into something so much better and intense.  We have seen the "3 wishes" before...people want fame, fortune, love, etc.  But Aguirre takes this need to be accepted at all costs and creates a scientific situation (time travel) and combines it with the supernatural, as we are used to in tales such as this. Because of this, you will not read anything in the story that you have read before.

Yes, the love story is a little much. Kian would do anything for Edie and vice versa.  This might be played up a bit in the story, but it is easy to accept when you realize why Kian acts the way he does, his history, and his current situation make him susceptible to weaknesses he may otherwise be strong enough to fight.

Pick this book up at the library, but don't expect to get any sleep tonight!