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Cold Kiss

av Amy Garvey

Serier: Cold Kiss (1)

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When her boyfriend is killed in a car accident, high school student Wren Darby uses her hidden powers to bring him back from the dead, never imagining the consequences that will result from her decision.
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I guess I'm kind of surprised it took wren so long to realize that she'd have to return Danny, and I was also surprised how much trouble she had moving on when she had a living boy that she loved. I was also surprised that she didn't want Gabriel's help, even as a kind of back up and that she didn't tell her mom. I will note that this was an unusual and original take on zombies. ( )
  t1bnotown | Aug 9, 2017 |
Wren grosses me out a bit.
Making out with a dead guy and all that.
Eww.

But I liked the story! So I guess I wasn't grossed out that much.
ha.

Now to go hunt down the sequel.

I like Gabriel. I hope he hangs around. ( )
  Shahnareads | Jun 21, 2017 |
Full review on Reader's Dialogue: http://readersdialogue.blogspot.com/2013/05/cold-kiss.html

Danny and Wren's love is shown mostly through flashbacks and memories, and some of Wren's ruminations. But even though the current situation is far from what their love truly is, I felt like I really got what their relationship was like, and it totally made sense for Wren to want it back, to feel like if she didn't have it she couldn't go on living. It's the kind of love that insinuates itself into every part of your life, breathing new life and vitality into everything. Can you blame Wren then?

And then there's Gabriel - very different from Danny, but just as good for Wren. Gabriel's mysteriousness at the beginning of the book colors the way I see him even though he's pretty much an open book for most of the story. The way he's described is totally gorgeous, so even without the physical descriptions, I would have been imaging a tall, slim guy. Though I would have had him with dark hair. The constant mention of his gray eyes is striking, and adds to the creepiness and thrill of how he can see more than the regular person.

Wren's growing catastrophe builds and builds really credibly throughout the book, and her emotions and responses escalate with the mounting tension. There never really is a big moment, since everything with Danny happens gradually. There is, of course, the way she tries to put things right at the end of the book, but even that felt sort of anticlimactic to me. Though I'm guessing the reason it's so abrupt is that it continues with whole new twists in Glass Heart.

And I'll find out soon enough, because the characters and tone of the book make me crave more of this story! ( )
  EstherShaindel | May 13, 2013 |
“Love doesn’t break easily, I found. But people do.” As I read this final sentence of the wonderfully descriptive prologue to Amy Garvey’s Cold Kiss, I settled in and prepared for an emotional roller-coaster ride. Although the full sweeps and curls of the ride never fully developed, there were enough twists and turns in this young adult paranormal to satisfy if not exhilarate.

The prologue showcases the first meeting of Wren and Danny and lays the foundation for what is to come – the story of a girl so devastated by the loss of her boyfriend she works dark magic to bring him back from the dead. Garvey then jumps right in with her story, with the spells already cast and Wren beginning to realize that the Danny who holds her now is just a shadow of the boy she loved. I found myself caught up quickly in the relationship of Wren and Danny, and enjoyed the way Garvey used flashbacks to show the depth of it. Being able to see what a wonderful boyfriend Danny was in life and how that contrasted with the needy, somewhat empty soul that Wren brought back from the dead added an emotional depth to the first half of the story that I found completely absorbing.

Danny was a very easy character to care about, so it was no surprise that letting go of such a wonderful boyfriend would be very difficult. I sympathized with Wren and her despair, but I never fully warmed up to her character. She had plenty of strengths, with one of the best being her sense of responsibility, and was very well-developed so there will be many readers who find her to be a wonderful heroine. She took it upon herself to bring Danny back, and she never tried to shift the blame for her actions elsewhere. Her grief at his loss, and the difficulty she had letting him go, were both being explored and I was enjoying that aspect of the story. What I did not like was the way Wren started to pull back from Danny as things became more difficult, and new boy Gabriel showed up. It was at this point that I started pulling back from the story myself, as Wren became so locked on the idea of NOT being able to come up with a solution to correct her mistake that she became a bit repetitive. As her thoughts circled and circled, the emotional pull of the story was lost and the exploration of grief that had started out the book fell by the wayside.

Gabriel didn’t feel as developed as Wren and Danny, which is a shame because the love triangle would have been stronger for it. He was a good character, but he had a tendency to try to fix Wren’s problems for her which came off as a bit controlling to me. Wren had enough strength to stand on her own two feet and take responsibility for her actions, even when locked in indecision. Gabriel’s power didn’t feel necessary either (maybe this will play into things a bit more in future books), and I would have preferred to just have a strong, well-developed, completely normal teenage boy as the third side of the triangle. Danny was all those things in the flashbacks, so I would have liked to see Wren deal with the emotional turmoil of having these qualities right in front of her as she struggled between the love of her past and a possible love in her present. Gabriel is a good character, but with a little more development he could have been a great one.

Danny turned out to be the most intriguing and heartbreaking character, and he saved the second half of the book for me. Danny, with his mix of emotions and memories growing more volatile as time went on, was a nice twist on the usual zombie genre. Seeing the contrast between his past and present, and the dangerous ways he was beginning to change, had me alternating between chills and sorrow. All I wanted was for him to find peace, so the final resolution of his fate was a mix of sadness and happiness for me.

In Cold Kiss, Amy Garvey has presented an interesting premise with a teenage girl who is so unable to deal with the loss of a loved one, she brings her boyfriend back from the dead. However, the full horror of this situation is never completely developed and the message of learning to let go is lost through a large section of the story as Wren devolves into a character paralyzed with indecision on how to correct her error. While this is ultimately resolved in a touching conclusion to the tale, I wish the emotional aspects of the situation had been explored a bit deeper so that this really good book could have been a fantastic one.
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  eomalley | Apr 20, 2013 |
I definitely expected to hate this book. Perhaps that's not something I should admit, but that's how it was. Partly, it's the cover. It's pretty on one level, but it just really creeps me out. Plus, there's the quote on the cover by Lauren Kate, whose books I'm pretty sure I'm going to hate as well, from what I've heard in the blogosphere. I believe I'd also read some less than flattering reviews of Cold Kiss. Well, this is one of the rare situations in which I am okay with being wrong.

While I am not completely in love with Cold Kiss, I definitely enjoyed it and I really appreciated how different the messages about love and romance are from so many of the most popular YA novels. As you can see in my favorite quote down at the bottom, this book is all about the misconceptions and fairy tale perfect romances not being as portrayed by pop culture.

The focus of this book is not on love overcoming death. That's what I thought it would be. I loved that she really considered the dark consequences of Wren's actions. I expected this to be a romance, but it's really not. That made a refreshing change.

I'm not sure how I feel about Gabriel. On the one hand, I would have preferred for Wren not to have a romantic interest in someone besides Danny - not forever, but while she's dealing with this. Still, I can kind of see why Garvey included him, and that he might be a necessary impetus. Wren certainly wasn't happy with her relationship with Danny before Gabriel entered the scene, but Gabriel serves to remind her of all that she's missing: a warm guy who she can be seen in public with. Gabriel can be a partner; Danny is nothing but deadweight. Still, Gabriel is too attached and to protective for someone who just met her.

The paranormal aspects are interesting, but not perhaps as well-defined as I would have liked. It seems a bit as though Gabriel's abilities were thrown in as a plot point to force Wren to open up to him, rather than being something natural. Other than that, I just don't know why he had them.

Another plus was the theme of family, and of how Wren's family dealt with the magical powers. This aspect, as well as the whole what-will-we-do-with-this-undead-dead-guy part, reminded me a lot of Practical Magic. Wren's mom does not want to teach her daughters how to use their power, which is what lets Wren get so out of control. She's made up her own rules and boundaries.

Cold Kiss is deeper and more thoughtful than I anticipated, making it a nice counterpoint to all of the paranormal, instalove romances out there. I will definitely be giving book two, Glass Heart, a try. I'm definitely curious to see what will happen next, and hope that Garvey will continue to deviate from the standard YA romance tropes. ( )
  A_Reader_of_Fictions | Apr 1, 2013 |
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FOR STEPHEN, AS ALWAYS.
KEEP THE TEA AND CUPCAKES COMING, BABE.
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I wasn't thinking about falling in love the day I met Danny Greer.
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This night I seek to rekindle Life's bright fire
Fire stolen too soon by the cold grasp of Death
Untimely Death.

Spirits bright
Spirits dark
Spirits undecided and in between
Witness my invocation.

Life taken from you, Danny, return!
Love awaits you.
Death has no hold on you.

By candlelight
By starlight
By moonlight growing stronger
I command this to be.

With this symbol of Danny
With my blood
I command this to be.

Return to life
Return to me
Return to life
Return to me
Return to life
Return to me.
(pg. 289-290)

Tonight I call Death to embrace this boy
Tonight I seek peace for him
From ash he emerged, and to ash he returns.

Spirits bright
Spirits dark
Spirits undecided and in between
Witness my invocation.

To Death you return, Danny.
Peace awaits you
Life has no hold on you anymore.

By candlelight
By starlight
By moonlight growing stronger
I command this to be.

With this symbol of Danny
With his blood
I command this to be.

Find Death, Danny.
Find peace.
Find Death, Danny.
Find peace.
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