Autumn Rose Book Review

Autumn Rose by Abigail Gibbs

This book is the second in the dark heroine series. Autumn rose lives in a sleepy seaside town in the south west of England but buried deep under the surface of her quiet life are dark secrets. Swirling marks on her skin mark her out as having extraordinary power, but at school she is shunned and condemned by the very people she is sworn to protect.
The appearance of a handsome young man at her school sends her world into turmoil. Plus, there is the fact that autumn keeps dreaming of a human girl who is about to be seduced by a very dark vampire prince... And autumn must figure out how to save her before it is too late.

My favourite character was prince Fallon because his character was very vulnerable at the start and he develops into a brave man who wants to protect autumn from the evil extermino that are threatening the world.

The characters, even though they are from a different dimension to ours, were quite relatable because of the fear that came from unknown power and I found the development of autumns character to be very relatable because she is seen as an outsider to the human race and she slowly gets accepted.

The story was quite predicable at points but it was still a very good story and I liked that information was revealed to the reader even though the main character didn't know.

This book made me laugh out loud, cry like a baby and had me on the edge of my seat all in the space of a few chapters. It was such a gripping book and it kept me interested the whole way through.

Autumn rose is a sagean girl, this means that she has the ability to harness the power from nature and use the energy as magic. In her school she is shunned by her peers for being a 'freak' that is able to have this power, even though there is a government law that makes her the protector of the school. This illustrates that within the secular society she is not accepted because she is seen as different and people are scared of the power that she is able to harness from nature.

However from the amount of 'positive' fiction that has been published about witches and witchcraft shows that it is seen as a supernatural thing that intrigues a lot of teenagers and creates a lot of curiosity within a lot of people which therefore could be seen as acceptance of the unknown and the power of witchcraft within the young people of today's society.

I give Autumn Rose by Abigail Gibbs a 4.5/5

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