Review: Reawakened | Or Some Mummies Should Stay Dead

Reawakened (The Reawakened, #1) by Colleen Houck
Published by Delacorte Press ISBN: 0385376561
on August 11th 2015
Pages: 400
My rating:
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Synopsis

When seventeen-year-old Lilliana Young enters the Metropolitan Museum of Art one morning during spring break, the last thing she expects to find is a live Egyptian prince with godlike powers, who has been reawakened after a thousand years of mummification.

And she really can’t imagine being chosen to aid him in an epic quest that will lead them across the globe.

But fate has taken hold of Lily, and she, along with her sun prince, Amon, must travel to the Valley of the Kings, raise his brothers, and stop an evil, shape-shifting god named Seth from taking over the world.

From New York Times bestselling author Colleen Houck comes an epic adventure about two star-crossed teens who must battle mythical forces and ancient curses on a journey with more twists and turns than the Nile itself.

 

Don’t get me wrong, mummies are cool. Even Imhotep is cool. But, ancient prince turned into almost god Amon… He I have some doubts about.

So, Kelsey Lily gets herself involved with this ancient prince Dhiren Amon, whom, since he is stuck as a tiger can’t find his canopic jars, doesn’t have another option but to ask Kelsey for help tu break the curse do some weird connection with Lily so she’d be lending him her life force for him to continue among the living. Creepy, I know.

Of course, he’s handsome, but handsome love interest doesn’t make greatness.

 

The Sins

Tiger’s Curse  Reawakened

Perhaps what bothered me the most was the uncanny similarities with previous ‘relative’ successful Tiger Curse series. I loved those books. I loved Ren, and Kishan, and the indian mythology, and I hoped it’d stay that way. Then Reawakened comes along, and how could I not be excited about that?! It didn’t even make me blink that the premise sounded dangerously like the egyptian version of Tiger’s Curse, because I expected it to only sound like it.

Hereby the similarities, and thus, things I did not like:

•  A normal girl with a happy life, that’s apparently really miserable, meets prince that chages her life. To my delight, at least, here she’s not made up to be such a blatant Chosen One, but still, there’s plenty Mary Sue behavior to have fun with. o.o
•  Prince is a bit… intense-> Raises lots of red flags but MC doesn’t care. 

 

For a long moment I looked into his hazel eyes. Amon was a lot of things, and there were many parts of him I didn’t understand at all, but I somehow knew he wasn’t a liar. I could sense it.

 

This after, having Amon control her like she had strings, through their connection, and Lily saying she didn’t like when he did that. Amon assured her he meant her no harm. Umm… Hot or not, this would freak me out.

•  Prince got bros. Maybe at some point Amon and Lily will ‘break up’ because of something stupid, and one of them will swoop in to lend his shoulder to Lily. Anyone want to place some bets?
•  EVERYONE LOVES KELSEY LILY. Hey, it’s not bad to feel liked, and to be a nice person. But in a book, there must be at least someone besides the villain who doesn’t want to kneel at your feet. Hell, here even the villain wanted a ‘taste’ of her.

 

There are probably more I should mention, but let’s stick with these for now.

 

Other Stuff

•  ‘Young Lily’. Sometimes I just couldn’t get myself to pair Lily and Amon.  For one, he’s a mummy, which, I guess could be overlooked if handled appropiately. Amon constantly referring to Lily as ‘Young Lily’, didn’t help with picturing them together as a couple. It got on my nerves, and just reminded me he was way older and icky.

 

The Good Points

•  There isn’t this long-winded exposition about Lily’s normal life before she meets Amon.
•  Also, info on Egypt and the gods isn’t delivered in huge walls of text.
•  For now, Amon’s brothers seem supportive of him, and didn’t make any serious move on Lily, in this book.

 

What I want to get at is that this would’ve been so awesome if it didn’t rely so much on the Tiger’s Curse formula 🙁 Maybe it’ll be more attractive to people who didn’t read the other series, but me, I couldn’t help to notice the similarities.

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