Leah
Clifford
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
Release Date: February 22,
2011
Series or Standalone: Touch Mortal #1
ISBN: 9780062004994
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 432
Source: Bought
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Rating: 4 Stars
I’ve been waiting a long
time to read this book. For some reason it’s impossible to find it around where
I live but this week I drove to Boston for a signing with Leah Clifford,
Courtney Allison Moulton and Lisa Desrochers so I finally got a copy! And of
course the first thing I did was read it.
I was thoroughly entertained
by A Touch Mortal. This book was a
dark, sexy and intriguing read. I really loved the world that Leah Clifford
created. I loved the Siders. They were a very interesting and new type of
paranormal creature. The whole idea of the power of the Touch was awesome. I
really felt like Leah Clifford created her own new type of supernatural
creatures.
While I did really like the
Siders and the power they had, I will admit for the first hundred pages or so I
was bit confused by what was going. Like the main character Eden, I was
confused by what was going on, but as Eden learn who she was and more about the
powers she had, I too was no longer confused. Once I really understand about
the Siders and the Touch I started to really get into this book and engrossed
in the story and could not put it down. The story just captured my attention
and I wanted to see where Leah would take us.
A Touch Mortal is definitely a darker YA read, but I love it! Eden was a very
conflicted main character. She has this power stronger then most people, is
basically immortal because she herself died and must deal with the boy issues.
I loved that all the Siders became Siders if they committed suicide. Imagine
wanting to end it all only to wake up after you killed yourself and find that
your immortal. God that would suck. But I really liked that darker, more morbid
element to the Siders and the book itself.
My one wish in with this
book was that the pacing in the beginning was slower. I think part of my
confusion in the first hundred pages was that everything happened bam, bam, bam
in a row. After those first hundred pages I felt the book slowed down and
really found it’s pace. I really wish
that in the relationship between Eden and Az was more developed in the
beginning. I felt like as a reader we never saw their relationship grow. One
minute they meet and then the next minute they were in love. I just wish I saw
more of their relationship so I could understand why Eden loved him so much.
I loved the ending of this
book. I loved how the everything in the book slowly built up to the moment in
the end. And I feel I should talk a bit about Gabe now. I love Gabe and so much
more than I thought rested on him and his actions. Gabe really is one of the best
characters in the book. I don’t know why I liked him as much as I did, but I
think a lot of it has to do with his actions at the end of the book. The ending
really took me by surprise. I really want to read A Touch Morbid to see where Leah Clifford takes these characters
next, especially with how she left them at the end of this book.
A Touch Mortal is a dark, stunning, and sexy debut. And while it wasn’t perfect I was
just drawn into it and loved it. I highly recommend it, even if you feel like
your not really into the darker paranormal or darker YA. It definitely is
unique and will leaving you wanting more.