Book: Incarnate by Jodi Meadows

Published by Katherine Tegen Books

Purchased for my Nook (234 pages)

Genre: YA: Fantasy/Paranormal

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Goodreads Summary: New soul

Ana is new. For thousands of years in Range, a million souls have been reincarnated over and over, keeping their memories and experiences from previous lifetimes. When Ana was born, another soul vanished, and no one knows why.

No soul

Even Ana’s own mother thinks she’s a nosoul, an omen of worse things to come, and has kept her away from society. To escape her seclusion and learn whether she’ll be reincarnated, Ana travels to the city of Heart, but its citizens are afraid of what her presence means. When dragons and sylph attack the city, is Ana to blame?

Heart

Sam believes Ana’s new soul is good and worthwhile. When he stands up for her, their relationship blooms. But can he love someone who may live only once, and will Ana’s enemies—human and creature alike—let them be together? Ana needs to uncover the mistake that gave her someone else’s life, but will her quest threaten the peace of Heart and destroy the promise of reincarnation for all?

Incarnate is really interesting.  I love the idea of everyone being reincarnated, except for Ana.  Ana, interestingly enough, took the place of Ciana, and no one knows how or why this happened.  Everyone is suspicious of her, because she took Ciana’s place, and she’s seen (by some) as a bad omen.

It really is an interesting idea, and I loved seeing Ana comes to terms with who she is.  She struggles with being different, but by the end, she’s more okay with it.  I didn’t like her mother, who kept her from society.  I also didn’t care for her father, who makes a surprise appearance before dying.  The characters, in general, were really interesting, and you have a whole cast of them.  Everyone has thousands of stories to tell, because they’ve been around for so long, and I wished we heard more of those stories.

I also loved the setting.  For some reason, I was picturing Asia as the setting the whole time.  It sounds like such a pretty, interesting place, and the details were described really well.

I thought the society was interesting, and I loved what Meadows did with reincarnation.  There are so many possibilities with this society, and it will be interesting to see what Meadows does with Heart in the next book.

And of course, I have to mention the romance!  I just love Sam and Ana together.  They are just so cute together, and I’m glad they finally got together in the end.

Incarnate gets a 4 out of 5.  I didn’t love it, but I still really liked it.  It’s so creative, and I like that it so many different genres.  It didn’t feel like one cliche after another.