Set in a dark and dangerous world, this is a
delicious love story to really sink your teeth into…
A fallen angel, a vampire princess. Can their love ever really be…
Eternal?
“Stephanie Meyer, honey, watch out. Twilight fans,
you are gonna LOVE Eternal.” – Dallas Morning News
CLASSIFIED ADS: WANTED Personal assistant to Her Royal Highness.
Duties: Whatever is asked, without hesitation, including but not limited to
secretarial / administrative, household, defence, blood donation, driving,
companionship, prey disposal, and love slavery.
At last, Miranda is the life and soul of the party: and all she had to do was die.
Adopted by none other than the reigning King of the Mantle of Dracul,
Miranda goes from high school theatre wannabe to glamorous royal fiend
overnight. Meanwhile, Zachary, her reckless and adoring guardian angel,
demoted to human guise as the princess’s personal assistant, must try to
save his girl’s soul before all hell arrives, quite literally, on their castle
doorstep.
In Cynthia Leitich Smith’s dark fantasy romance, vampire Miranda and angel
Zachary navigate a cut-throat eternal aristocracy as they play out a dangerous
love story for the ages.
From the acclaimed author of Tantalize, comes a sexy story about forbidden
love and deathly attraction. Dive into a dark eternal world where vampires lie
with angels – and girls just wanna have fangs!
The pace of this entertaining romp is quick and the action plentiful." - Kirkus
"Smith has built on centuries of vampire lore to create a spooky, snarky, supernatural world
all her own." - Bookpage
"The confessional style, alternating between Miranda and Zachary's points of view, is
intriguing as a diary—readers should be hooked by this fully formed world, up through the
action-packed finale." - Publishers' Weekly
“Serious vampire buffs will undoubtedly add the novel to their must-read list.” School
Library Journal
“A fun read sure to please the legions of vampire fans.” Library Media Connection,
8/1/09 (CIRC. 18,000)
Eternal (ISBN: 978-0-7636-3573-2)
“This book is worth sinking your teeth into.” Yankton Daily Press & Dakotan, 5/1/2009
(CIRC. 8,303)
Eternal (ISBN: 978-0-7636-3573-2)
“A truly creative and unusual love story.” Justine, April/May 2009 (CIRC. 250,000)
Eternal (ISBN: 978-0-7636-3573-2)
“Serious vampire buffs will undoubtedly add the novel to their must-read list.” School
Library Journal, July 2009
SLJ
SMITH, Cynthia Leitich. Eternal. 307p. CIP. Candlewick. 2009. RTE $17.99. ISBN 978-0-76363573-2. LC 2008027658.
Gr 9 Up–This dark romance is told in alternating chapters from the perspectives of 17-year-old Miranda and
her guardian angel, Zachary, in an alternate America in which vampires and werewolves exist. Early in the
novel, Zachary falls from grace as punishment for materializing in his full radiance in a failed attempt to
save Miranda from being bitten by a vampire. The tale resumes a year later with the now-vampire Miranda a
revered princess living among vampire royalty and feasting regularly on humans. Zachary, meanwhile, has
sunk into a life of aimless debauchery and is resigned to never regaining his wings when an archangel
suddenly gives him the opportunity to become Miranda’s personal assistant. Determined to save his former
ward, with whom he has fallen in love, Zachary takes the job. Miranda finds herself drawn to him, and the
murders she has carelessly committed begin to weigh on her conscience. With his help, she is determined to
find a way to redeem herself and help him return to grace. The plot is occasionally choppy and frequently
grisly, and the dialogue seems forced in places. Neither Miranda nor Zachary is particularly likable, and the
ending, while logical, is not one that romance fans will favor. The story lacks the elegance of Stephenie
Meyer’s hugely popular novels, but serious vampire buffs will undoubtedly add the novel to their must-read
list.–Leah J. Sparks, formerly at Bowie Public Library, MD
The pace of this entertaining romp is quick and the action plentiful." - Kirkus, 1/15/2008
(circ. 5,000)
"Suspenseful and entertaining." - The Horn Book 3/01/2009
Featured/recommended - YA Book Realm
(circ. 15,000)
01/30/2009
"Smith has built on centuries of vampire lore to create a spooky, snarky, supernatural world
all her own." - Bookpage 3/01/2009 (circ. 500,000)
"Darkly entertaining and great fun." - Bookloons.com
Featured/recommended - JustineSpark.com
Cynthia Leitich Smith interviewed - YALSA Podcast # 64
"A true page-turner, I can’t imagine any fan of gothic suspense/romance not thoroughly
enjoying this – and not just young adult readers either." - Dallas Morning News, 4/26/2009
"This novel is definitely a page-turner. It is filled with danger, deception, humor, love,
sadness, and hope." - teensreadtoo.com
"At once glamorous and gruesome, "Eternal" can be read as a stand-alone, but it might
inspire readers to seek out Leitich Smith's previous teen goth novel "Tantalize." It is not
necessary to read the first book to let the fingers fly through this flowing fantasy with ease." San Antonio Express-News
"The confessional style, alternating between Miranda and Zachary's points of view, is
intriguing as a diary—readers should be hooked by this fully formed world, up through the
action-packed finale." - Publishers' Weekly, 03/16/2009 (circ. 30,000)
"Fanpires will not be disappointed with the newest addition to the genre, and the mythology is
subtle enough for general fiction readers." - VOYA, 04/01/2009
"…witty, dark love story of death and redemption…Miranda and Zachary are
complex, sympathetic characters, and their hopeful ending is well earned."
—Booklist
"Suspenseful, entertaining, and enthusiastically gruesome, Smith's latest will be
lapped up by vampire fans."
—Notes from the Hornbook