Dead Beautiful by Yvonne Woon - Review

Dead Beautiful by Yvonne Woon

Hardcover, 464 pages

Published September 21st 2010 by Hyperion

Summary:

On the morning of her sixteenth birthday, Renée Winters was still an ordinary girl. She spent her summers at the beach, had the perfect best friend, and had just started dating the cutest guy at school. No one she'd ever known had died. But all that changes when she finds her parents dead in the Redwood Forest, in what appears to be a strange double murder.
After the funeral Renée’s wealthy grandfather sends her to Gottfried Academy, a remote and mysterious boarding school in Maine, where she finds herself studying subjects like Philosophy, Latin, and the “Crude Sciences.”
It’s there that she meets Dante Berlin, a handsome and elusive boy to whom she feels inexplicably drawn. As they grow closer, unexplainable things begin to happen, but Renée can’t stop herself from falling in love. It’s only when she discovers a dark tragedy in Gottfried’s past that she begins to wonder if the Academy is everything it seems.
Little does she know, Dante is the one hiding a dangerous secret, one that has him fearing for her life.

My Review:

This book was spectacular! I recently took a break from reading books, as you guys might have noticed, and I've just started to begin reading again! 

I was a bit creeped out because of this book in the beginning and I still am a bit now, but it's really interesting. I still don't know why there were coins all around the body, but oh well. 

Anyways, let's get on with the story! It was very well written, at least to me, and I really enjoyed it. There was one point in the story where Renee was thinking about who and what Dante really was and I was silently praying to myself, 'Please don't be a vampire, please please please'. I really am getting annoyed with vampire related books now. I get it, but just because Twilight was such a big deal, doesn't mean your book is too! No offense, but can you tell I don't like Twilight? I'm not going to tell you guys if Dante is a vampire or not. You have to read it to find out. 

And on with the characters! When Renee and I first got to learn who Dante was according to Eleanor, I was totally agreeing with what Renee was saying, but when we got the the description of Dante when she saw him, whew, what a hottie. Haha, but really. What a hottie. Dante is really charming and very proper. I don't really know how to explain, but he just is. And every single one of you who reads this book will agree with me, he is a hottie. 

The main character, Renee, has a tragic backstory. Her parents die from a heart attack and she has to move across the country to go to this posh boarding school that her grandfather, who she hasn't even seen since she was young, has forced her to go to. And what's worse is that she has to leave her best friend and this guy she might've gotten with. But, don't get all weepy for her because, ahem, Dante. 

What I liked about the book was almost everything. I'm hesitant to give it a 5 star because it didn't really blow me away, but I don't want to give it any lower because it really was a good book. Anyways, I loved Dante and Renee together. They're just so cute! And the author is very skilled at not making them too mushy. I didn't really dislike anything about the book!

Overall, I'm really glad I took the time to finish the book. 4.5 Stars!