John’s impulsive violence starts to recede or at least be less violent, due to Pierce’s influence thus Pierce assumes responsibility for domestic violence. Then John takes Pierce home to rescue Alex, talking to the cemetery sexton and seeing family members along the way. As a second choice, she’ll settle for saying goodbye and ensuring her family is safe.Īfter she eats breakfast, John tells her she can’t leave the Underworld because she’s eaten the food. Pierce, still somewhat conflicted about their relationship, wants to go home, to finish high school and to be with her family.
Pierce dreams John drowned at sea while she tried to rescue him, then wakes to find herself in his arms. Also, this review will include spoilers for Abandon.Īt the end of Abandon, John swept Pierce away to live with him in the Underworld so he could protect her from the Furies, of which her grandmother was one.
As usual, read my review of the first book, Abandon, because otherwise this review may not make sense. John is not afraid to kill people to protect his loved ones.Underworld is the second book in a trilogy. He is also a good leader, due to the fact he is Lord of the Underworld. John sees himself as a bad person trying to be good.
He is also seen to be romantic, as Pierce notes that most of the books he enjoys reading are about love poems. But if you look closer, like Pierce does, you will see a kind, loyal boy who will do anything to protect his loved ones. He stalks cemeteries, he breaks teachers' hands, he tries to kill shopkeepers. John is, at times, violent, overbearing and just plain terrifying. John is the cool mysterious dude who only wears black, has a fierce temper - and is always following Pierce, much to her dismay. But she can't stay away from him, either, especially since he's always there when she least expects it, but exactly when she needs him most.īut if she lets herself fall any further, she might find herself back in the place she fears the most.Īnd when Pierce discovers the shocking truth, that’s exactly where John sweeps her: just like she knows he's no guardian angel, and his dark world isn't exactly heaven. What does John want from her? Pierce thinks she knows. Though she thought she escaped him-starting a new school in a whole new place-it turns out she was wrong. That's how she met John Hayden, the mysterious stranger who's made returning to normal life-or at least life as Pierce knew it before the accident-next to impossible. "Seventeen-year-old Pierce knows what happens to us when we die.
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