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Midnight Cravings: Book One of the Eternal Dead Series
Midnight Cravings: Book One of the Eternal Dead Series
Midnight Cravings: Book One of the Eternal Dead Series
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Midnight Cravings: Book One of the Eternal Dead Series

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The first book in the Eternal Dead trilogy is a supernatural fest with teenage witches, vampires, and zombies in an urban setting.

Holland Manning has discarded the nerdy girl image for a bold and edgy look. This is the year that she’s finally going to fit in with the popular kids and snag her long-time crush, football star Jarrett Sloan. Holland’s mom claims to be a witch, but her spells often go awry and sometimes even backfire. When Holland asks her mother to cast a spell for her, strange things begin to occur, and Holland suspects that her mother may have mistakenly opened a portal that has unleashed menacing, dark forces.

Desperate to find a better life in America, seventeen-year-old Jonas embarks on a perilous voyage from Haiti to Miami—a voyage manned by a sadistic captain and fraught with superstitious hysteria and voodoo spells. When Jonas wakes up in Frombleton, GA, he realizes that he’s been changed. No longer a normal teenager, he’s become something unspeakably sinister—something undead!

Discovering her own powers of sorcery that have been lying dormant, Holland joins forces with Jonas and soon finds herself falling for him, despite the dark secret he keeps. Though woefully outnumbered, Holland and Jonas take on the dangerous mission of vanquishing the nest of vampires that are picking off the residents of Frombleton, one by one.

In this life-or-death clash between witches, vampires, and zombies, Midnight Cravings is a bone-chillingly scary tale of teenage angst and forbidden love.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherStrebor Books
Release dateOct 9, 2012
ISBN9781451655889
Midnight Cravings: Book One of the Eternal Dead Series
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Joelle Sterling

Joelle Sterling is the author of the Eternal Dead series, which includes Midnight Cravings, The Dark Hunger, and Forbidden Feast. She lives in Philadelphia.

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    Please note: Did Not Finish this one. I did read more than half, and just gave up out of dislike and confusion as to who the audience is supposed to be. Midnight Cravings features a teenage girl, Holland, who is a former geek with a recent makeover that ends up drawing the attention of one of the school sports stars. He pursues Holland for the sole purpose of sleeping with her, but bails at the last second when his current girlfriend (he told Holland they'd broken up) calls at his home unexpectedly. Holland's mother is a self-professed but somewhat bumbling witch. Holland may have latent powers that develop as the story moves forward. In a parallel plot line, a young man named Jonah is escaping Haiti on a boat to America, in order to find a job and send money back home to his family. During the boat ride, dark magic turns many of the passengers into some form of undead who crave living flesh.
    First, I think the story idea is interesting and could have been developed in an enticing way. The author also has a way with dialogue and presenting scenes realistically, which is a tough skill to nail down. But, and this is a giant BUT, the book is billed as a young adult novel, which seems incredibly inappropriate to me, considering the almost fetish level of repeated scenes of the cannibalism of living flesh, and also the sexual situations, to a lesser degree. The characters are set up to appeal to a younger reader, but paired with the adult situations, especially some adult situations that are stomach turning, is confusing. Midnight Cravings needed a guiding hand regarding the content. Personally, after reading more than half of the book, I gave up.

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