Predestined (Existence #2) - Abbi Glines

You would think after helping save her boyfriend from an eternity in Hell that things would go back to normal. Well, as normal as life can be when you can see souls and your boyfriend is Death. But for Pagan Moore, things are just getting weirder.

The high school quarterback and reigning heartthrob, Leif Montgomery, is missing. While the town is in a frenzy of worry, Pagan is a nervous wreck for other reasons. Apparently good ‘ol Leif isn’t your average teenage boy. He isn’t even human. According to Death, Leif doesn’t have a soul. The quarterback may have skipped town but he’s still showing up in Pagan’s dreams... uninvited.

Dank has known from the beginning Leif wasn’t human. But he hadn’t worried about a simple soulless creature. Now, he realizes he made a grave mistake. Pagan’s soul has been marked since birth as a restitution, to a spirit so dark not even Death walks near it. Dank knows saving Pagan’s soul won’t be easy but Pagan is his. And he’s already proven he’ll defy Heaven to keep her. If Hell wants a piece of him too, then bring it on.

 

I read this book immediately following Existence and to be honest, they sort of run together in my mind now...but what we know at this point is that Pagan loves Dank (still can't get over that name!) and Leif is not exactly the "normal" high school quarter back we thought he was.

But we do learn there is more to the Leif and Pagan story and it can't just end with her choosing to love Dank for as long as she can. Again, I knew she wanted Dank and I knew he is who she wanted to choose, but I couldn't help feeling bad for Leif. He truly believes he loves her and he has weirdly been a part of her life for a long time. I believed he would do anything to make her happy and felt heartache for him when she continually chose Death over him.

I love that you can truly see Pagan's love for her family and friends by doing whatever she thinks is necessary to keep everyone safe. She does this in Existence, which is how she proves to The Creator her love for Dank and she does it again in this book.

This story takes some turns I didn't see coming and I always love when that happens. I constantly find myself trying to figure out what is going to happen in these stories and am usually right in the end, but with these there have been twists and turns I couldn't predict and I love that about her stories.

I am definitely excited for Ceaseless now!