Anomaly (Causal Enchantments #4): Ebook Review

4.25/5 Stars

Anomaly
(Book #4 Causal Enchantments)
By KA Tucker
February 24th, 2012
Genre: YA Paranormal Romance

The final book in the series! I was really interested to see what direction the story was going to take!

Synopsis:

The last thing Evangeline remembers is dying and seeing the 4 fates portraying themselves as angels and telling her to choose between dying as a mortal or living as a vampire. Probably the easiest decision Eve has ever had to make, so she happily accepts their offer to become a vampire. Now she’s woken up in a cave with concerned faces surrounding her. She was miraculously brought back to life since Viggo snapped her neck but her vampiric transformation took longer than Julian and Veronique’s (apparently accepting the offer was a package deal and the humans cursed with the Death Magic became vampires).  Another concern is her apparent lack of blood lust.

It doesn’t take long before Eve and the others around her start to notice other anomalies of her transformation. What could this mean? Is it a gift or a curse of the Fates? Is she being toyed with for the fates sick amusement? Will any of these new abilities help her in the impending war? While everyone is baffled by Eve there are more pressing matters at stake. Like if Viggo can be stopped before he exacts revenge, or how many fledglings have been built up in the mutants army, and can they be thwarted before the wreak so much chaos that the world can no longer ignore the threat of blood thirsty vampiries?

What I thought:

Well my initial thoughts on this book was that it almost seemed like I was reading a better version of the 4th book of Twilight. Eve, Julian, and Veronique all magically become vampires. Fiona gets brought back to life so we don’t have a mopy Bishop, and everything is cotton candy – well except the impending doom of the world. Another ‘Bella’ like quality Eve has is her uncanny ability to resist human blood, among some other mysterious abilities the fates hint at.

As much as I don’t want the main characters to die it’s too fairy tale to have everyone walk away unscathed, and as I read it I would worry it’s going to end like Twilight where there’s the big looming battle but everyone walk away like it was nothing. This is part of the reason why I love/hate Game of Thrones so much. Life is cruel, unpredictable, and while most of time we read books to escape that, it can be hard to sometimes swallow down that everything worked out so well.

This last book does take the life is butterflies and happiness approach, and I’m not too mad at it, because it did end differently than expected. I still like how the story played out with the fates, their manipulation, and the characters. I don’t however agree with everyone turning on Sofia for making a very hard but needed decisions…

**SPOILER** Amalie or the world? I don’t think this decision was much different than the one Evangeline made about Veronique. Eve didn’t know if the witches would keep Veronique alive or kill her, but she gambled with her life none the less to try and defer a war. Nobody seemed too mad at the decision aside from Viggo. But Sofia makes a similar call and everyone turns their back on her. To also be fair Sofia made a very difficult decision before even nuking New York, she decided to try and save it and destroy the fledglings instead of nuking it out right. Everyone agreed to this less callous decision knowing full well that going up against that many fledglings may cost some of them their lives, and when it did they all blamed Sofia for the deaths of their fellow vampires.
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I would recommend this series because I did enjoy it quite a bit, it was quite the roller coaster! I think my favourite book out the series was the second, :).

P.S. I love Max and his hilarious comments, and I would have to say I would probably do despicable things to have an immortal dog I could talk telepathically with! <3. I think Evangeline is totally abusing the awesomeness of her canine compadre!

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