Book Review: Masquerade by Cambria Hebert

Masquerade by Cambria Hebert

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Before. Everything was so much better Before. I wasn’t haunted by nightmares, my place at school was secure and my face was flawless. Now, I’m a freak and everything has changed. The worst part is that I can’t remember the night I was sentenced to the shadows. The memory has been stolen from me and I just can’t shake the feeling that someone, something is out there -watching.

Just when I think I have my life handled, Sam, with his intimidating golden stare and shiver inducing voice, makes me realize that I don’t know anything. He makes me see that my scars don’t matter. That they never mattered. I can’t help but fall for him, completely unknowing that he knows exactly how I got this way. Not knowing he was involved.

Heven has no idea how closely death stalks her. She has no idea what I have done to keep her alive. I fear the day she learns my secrets, finds out what I really am. But even then I cannot stop, I vow to make things right. Finally her hunter will be hunted, Heaven and Hell, faith and sin will battle, and we will be victorious. But first, Heven must learn to be what she never imagined. I know her strength is there – I feel it. If we are to overcome all odds, she must push past her flaws - her frailties - to become much more.

okay, i’m so pissed off right now because the pretty review I first made is gone to waste! aaah. so I’ll just do it again. (still pissed. breathe in. out. in. out.)

MY THOUGHTS:

Well, okay, I’m so happy I finally finished reading Masquerade. It took me 5 days to finish it! I don’t know why I’m so slow, I just had so much to do. Anyway.

So. Masquerade. It’s about Heven, hiding beneath the curtains of her blonde hair since her accident months ago, that left her one side of face scarred. Later in the story, we’ll learn that her friends (she used to be in the cheer squad, so she’s popular) hated her already because of what happened to her, but she’s wrong because she’s the one who distances herself from them, except for Kimber, her BFF, and Kimber’s BF, Cole who I secretly think has the hots for Heven, but the clues are just flashing and vague, so I can’t really prove this. . Then, she met Sam. Well, there’s always a boy who CHANGES EVERYTHING. Sam, hot and gorgeous and kind. but there’s something MYSTERiOUS about it. And because of Sam’s love for Heven, Heven’s in a lot of trouble.

Then there’s another subplot/plot, and another, and another. About halfway through, I’m a bit irritated with some of the additional subplots. The story was so much stretched already and it’s still the 1st book. It’s not that I don’t like the story, because I do..sometimes, (i have to be honest,haha). I like the lessons it procured to the readers, that real beauty isn’t what’s outside, stuff like that. But I just felt like sometimes, while reading, one scene would abruptly stop and skip into another, in the same paragraph. I don’t know, but that’s just me. I love the characters though. There were the good guys and the bad guys, and the I-don’t-know-where-they-belong guys. Heven is a nice character, though sometimes stubborn and overly self-conscious. Sam, however, was the one who made me stick over and finish the book. ahha.

Overall, it’s just an OK for me. Not so great that I would want to read it again. But it’s a nice book. :)

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