Week 49 Reviews: Dead Beautiful, Life Eternal

From Goodreads:
On the morning of her sixteenth birthday, Renée Winters was still an ordinary girl. She spent her summers at the beach, had the perfect best friend, and had just started dating the cutest guy at school. No one she'd ever known had died. But all that changes when she finds her parents dead in the Redwood Forest, in what appears to be a strange double murder. 

After the funeral Renée's wealthy grandfather sends her to Gottfried Academy, a remote and mysterious boarding school in Maine, where she finds herself studying subjects like Philosophy, Latin, and the "Crude Sciences."

It's there that she meets Dante Berlin, a handsome and elusive boy to whom she feels inexplicably drawn. As they grow closer, unexplainable things begin to happen, but Renée can't stop herself from falling in love. It’s only when she discovers a dark tragedy in Gottfried's past that she begins to wonder if the Academy is everything it seems. 

Little does she know, Dante is the one hiding a dangerous secret, one that has him fearing for her life. 

From Goodreads:
Renée Winters has changed. When she looks in the mirror, a beautiful girl with an older, sadder face stares back. Her condition has doctors mystified, but Renée can never reveal the truth: she died last May, and was brought back to life by the kiss of her Undead soul mate, Dante Berlin. 

Now, her separation from Dante becomes almost unbearable. His second life is close to an end, and each passing day means one less that she will spend with the boy who shares her soul. 

Just when Renée has almost given up hope, she learns of the Nine Sisters—brilliant scholars who, according to legend, found a way to cheat death. She can't shake the feeling that they are somehow connected to her dreams, strange visions that hint at a discovery so powerful, and so dangerous, that some will stop at nothing to protect it. 

Renée thought she knew the truth about life and death. But there is a secret woven through history that holds the only hope for Dante and Renée. Unless they find answers soon, their time together is doomed to be cut short.

My first review of Dead Beautiful, Life Eternal
My Review:
It was fantastic to read this series again! It's been over a decade since I read read them, and I basically forgot everything, but I enjoyed reading them again so much, and I'm so excited to finally finish out this series shortly with the final book!

Renée's parents were killed under mysterious circumstances. But there's not much she can do, she's a minor, and her grandfather takes her away, to be educated in the same place where her parent's were, where they met, where her grandfather used to be the dean, I believe. And there she meets Dante.

Dante is keeping a lot of secrets, the whole school is, and it was so great to watch Renée investigate, and put the pieces together, because the truth is not something that I would've come up with in real life. So that was really entertaining to read! 

I just love their romance, it's very doomed, given that they share a soul, meaning one of them is probably going to die in a few years if they don't figure out a way to change things. It's all so bittersweet and dramatic, and I can't wait to see how their story is going to finish! 

Loved reading these books and I can't wait to complete the series!

Author: Yvonne Woon
Series: Dead Beautiful #1, 2
First Read: January 30th, 30th-31st, 2012

Read: December 7th, 7th, 2023
Source: Bought
Reason Why: Rereading, and they're Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2023 Books! 
Publisher: Disney-Hyperion
Published: September 21th 2010, January 24th 2012

Dead Beautiful:

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars

Life Eternal:

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars