Book Review: All You Desire by Kirsten Miller

All You Desire by Kirsten Miller

Hardcover, 423 pages

Published August 9th 2011 by Razorbill

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Haven Moore and Iain Morrow have been living a blissful life in Rome, an ocean way from the Ouroboros Society and its diabolical leader. But paradise is not to last. The mysterious disappearance of Haven's best friend, Beau, sends the pair running back to New York, where they encounter the Horae, an underground group of women who have spent centuries scheming to destroy Adam Rosier. Only they can help Haven uncover the secret to Beau's whereabouts in one of her past lives. But their help comes at a price: Haven must infiltrate the Ouroboros Society, charm Adam Rosier, and lure him into a trap. It's a plan the Horae believe will save the world-but Haven and Iain fear that it may destroy the happiness they've been chasing for two thousand years.

My Thoughts:

Finally done with it! What a mysterious, puzzling seemingly endless maze this novel made me go through! It was such an exhausting adventure, but I had so much fun guessing and guessing what will happen next, and what the real deal is.

Haven and Iaian has been living in Rome happily for over a year when Beau was kidnapped, and there's no other choice but for Haven to go back to New York and save him. A group called Horae claims that they can help Haven if she can help them trap Adam Rosier, who is their mortal enemy. Things that happened next are complicated. Then it got more and more complicated. Lies after lies are being told to Haven by opposite sides and she believes the other one first, then the second, and I really can't blame the girl because even I myself don't know who can be trusted and whoever is telling lies. Once you get to a conclusion, another situation springs up and everything you’ve believed turned out to be wrong and then you'll find yourself more and more confused. I really hate it when people lie to me because sometimes I really can’t tell if it’s really a lie. I trust people so much, and give them the benefit of the doubt, and Haven is also like that.I have to say Haven’s character was relatable this time. I like how independent she turned out to be. She made decisions by herself, and if I’m faced with those problems, I really will find myself in a jungle of questions on who to trust, and who really is saying the truth. In the end, thankfully, things have been stitched on together, and it shocked me to know that those who seem to be bad might not be totally bad, vice versa. But i have to warn you of the cliff-hanger- it's very perturbing, it adds another question to what we have concluded in the end.

“All you desire" is titled as such perhaps because everything revolves around the group and people’s desires and destinies. What they are meant to do and how they balance it with what they want and what they believe in. Quite complicated but extremely interesting. The mystery, wicked pasts and horrible futures, passions to live out and put off, plus difficult decisions to make- they all made me love the book.

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