{Review} The Alchemy of Forever @averyeverywhere

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?

Jessea Perry writes under the pen name Avery Williams. She was born the day after Halloween in Los Angeles, and has since lived in five different states due to her father’s job as a radio disc jockey (though she sometimes claims her parents were in the circus). Now she makes her home in Oakland with her husband and two dastardly kittens. She enjoys riding her bicycle around town and working on her hundred-year-old house. She is also a poet.


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Ok this one I really did love!  But for this one I think it would have been better to be a novella vs. a full book.  It is only 246 pages and not a lot happens.  That being said it was still a very good book!  I loved all the characters and it had a great pace.  I just think that it either needed to be longer or they should have made it a novella.  The next book in the series is called The Impossibility of Tomorrow and is over 300 pages.  That review will post tomorrow.

"*I received a copy of this book for free to review, this in no way influenced my review, all opinions are 100% honest and my own." 

Posted in: 4 Stars, Owned, Review, Simon & Schuster, Young Adult