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Cargando... Any Love But Minepor Debbie Davies
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I received this book through We Love YA Books! for an honest review, thank you.
Any Love But Mine is told in first person through the eyes of Acacia. She is the third goddess created by Poseidon at the request of Zeus, for Eros to love, the other two goddesses being Allana and Amora. Eros has refused the two other goddesses created for him and also refuses Acacia. He forbids the goddesses to love anyone because they were made for him and belong to him, even though he has cruelly rejected them. Because Eros refused Acacia, she was sent to Earth to match couples up in love. She does this at the high school she attends.
Over time however, Acacia begins to feel the emptiness of not having someone to love of her own. The Fates intervene and fan the flames bringing Acacia and Josh, one of the high school’s football players, together. This creates an ‘instant love’ scenario that I don’t like in books, but in this case is acceptable because it does deal with mythology and the Fates.
Unfortunately for Acacia, Amora, a bitter goddess after Eros rejects her, informs Eros that Acacia and Josh have fallen in love. Acacia is torn away from her life on Earth and taken to Hades where she is to be punished for her transgression. While in Hades, Acacia meets Luca a vampire and he becomes another love interest of her’s.
I was disappointed that this book was mostly a YA romance rather than a mythological tale. Yes, the author wove in mythology to hold the story together, but it was mostly about the romance between Acacia and Josh, and then later Acacia and Luca. The story would go back and forth between the angst Acacia had over whether she could stay away from Josh because she wasn’t allowed to fall in love, and her overwhelming love for Josh, so that she couldn’t stay away. Acacia supposedly loved Josh so much that I was surprised and disappointed that she fell in love with Luca while in Hades. I’m guessing the author has a reason for introducing Luca. I just hope he has a pivotal role in the future books because as it is, he just appears like the typical second male in a romance triangle which I find cliché and wish the author hadn’t chosen this tactic.
I like the voice that the author gave to Acacia. When she begins her life at high school matchmaking couples, she has only been alive for eight months. Her voice in the story is that of someone much older, like I imagine a goddess from Olympus would sound. But her personal experience with love and relationships is non-existent. In this way she acts like what I imagine a teenager could act like. Angry that someone forbids them to see the one they love, and then going behind the ‘adult’s’ backs in order to see the boy.
I found it very easy to read the style of this book. It took me only about a page or two to get into Acacia’s speech pattern and I found it pleasant. The pace isn’t really all that fast and I’m guessing that there will be some readers who will find it too slow. For me, the part I didn’t like was the trip to, and Acacia’s time in Hades. The book slowed considerably during those chapters.
There were quite a few SPAG errors in this book that would have benefited with correction. I think the cover is only OK. I do like the image of the boy and girl’s heads in the stars, but I think higher quality images and planning could have gone into it.
I found this book easy to read and liked Acacia’s voice. It would have been nice if the SPAG problems would have been corrected more thoroughly and that it would have focused more on the mythology rather than the romance part of the story. I give Any Love But Mine 3 stars
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