Will You Embrace Your Halo or Your Horns? Pssst! A Giveaway, too!

You might not have noticed, but in recent times, I've had my little vacation from the Internet and it was not one I took pleasure in . . . for the most part.  The happy thing about it is that I've been reading nonstop and my TBR pile is becoming more than I can carry.  Overwhelmed?  Just a teeny bit.  Excited?  Absofreakinglutely!  Happy it's 80 degrees in April?  Happier than you can ever imagine . . .
Thanks to this awesome book blogger and constant tweeting buddy, I received an ARC of Sweet Evil by Wendy Higgins from her.  Her name is Michelle.  You should go check out her blog now, like, right NOW.  She's doing a giveaway for Sweet Evil!  Join the fun!
And guess what? I'm going a giveaway myself! (If you haven't already figured that out by the title of this post.)  But first, I must do the review and sell this book will all my heart and soul.  Not literally, of course.

Isn't this cover all intense?  Love her dress.

What if there were teens whose lives depended on being bad influences? This is life for sons and daughters of fallen angels in Sweet Evil.
Tenderhearted Southern girl, Anna Whitt, was born with the sixth sense to see and feel emotions of other people. She’s aware of a struggle within herself, an inexplicable pull toward danger, but it isn’t until she turns sixteen and meets the alluring Kaidan Rowe that she discovers her terrifying heritage, and her will-power is put to the test. He’s the boy your daddy warned you about. If only someone had warned Anna.
A cross-country trip to meet her father forces Anna to face the reality that hope and love are not options for her kind. When she confronts her destiny, will Anna embrace her halo or her horns?

I've heard a whole bunch of talk about this book long before I got the book in my hands.  So, once I was able to get my greedy little hands on it, I opened the book and read every little letter on each page, loving the opportunity of reading my first ARC.
Sweet Evil was not bad at all.  It was grand.  I loved it.  The beginning at first was a bit slow for me and I thought it highly impossible for our main character, Anna, to be such a Goodie-Goodie.  But, I thought I should not judge her because I have been called a Goodie-Goodie throughout high school and much worse.  I decided to like our dear and fragile Anna.
Not to take words from my previous review, but this book was not what I expected it to be.  Surprisingly, a lot happened in Sweet Evil.  A trip across the country all the way to California, another to New York.  It all happened so fast.  Despite how fast paced it was, I liked it that way.  It kept me at the edge of my seat, craving to know what would happen next.  And at times, I was just as scared and nervous as Anna.  My heart would beat fast and my mind would spin with all the possibilities of what could happen next. 
And at other times, the pace would slow down.  But it was a good slow-down.  I treasured every moment Kaidan and Anna had, along with other moments between others.  It was sweet.  It wasn't the sappy and mushy kind of sweet, though.  It was intense and albeit, brief at times.
And then there was the evil.  Demons threaten the normalcy of humans, making them do sinful things.  Anna is torn between helping them all, sheltering them all from the evil that lurked around, and joining in with all the wrongdoings going on.  It was a constant struggle that had my heart torn.  Who wouldn't want to give in here and there?  How could others let all of these bad things happen to all those humans?  What could be done about it?
Switching the subject, I'll talk about Kaidan a bit.  Whoo.  He had my heart racing along with Anna's.  He was not sweet.  He was not innocent.  He was deadly.  He was scary.  But, there was something there that Anna saw in him.  It was other than his natural pull he gave off because of his Nephilim sexiness.  He was a true mystery that made me question everything he did and why. 
I'll make this quick!  Five stars!  No doubt about it.  Miss Higgins, I will be looking out for other books by you!  L-O-V-E-D Sweet Evil.  It was the right amount of wrong.

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