Mortal Danger

Reviewed by: Mariah Machado - Davis Memorial Library, Limington,ME, Southern Maine Library District

Review Date: November 10, 2014

Review

Edie has been bullied to the point of extremis? - suicide - when Kian shows up and offers her a deal. His boss will give her "three favors now in return for three favors later"?. Ann Aguirre's Razorland trilogy was a fantastic series, her new offering - Mortal Danger, book 1 in The Immortal Game trilogy - is a big disappointment. Even without being compared to the author's previous work it suffers in comparison to other offerings in its genre. Marketed as a revenge story with a Faustian premise it fails to make good on the revenge. Edie's desire for revenge wanes almost immediately. The books beginning chapters mishandle the subjects of teen suicide and bullying, and the intense emphasis on looks seems to validate the thought that being beautiful will change your life. The books saving grace may be that as you get further into the story several creepy entities are introduced and the book begins to lean towards more of a possible horror story. If this is the set up for the next installment of the series then book 2 may be much stronger as Aguirre's creepy people are genuinely creepy.

Overall Book Score: fair