Die For Me by Amy Plum

I had never heard of this book before a friend of mine recommended it to me a few weeks ago. It's the first of a trilogy and is set in Paris, France in 2010.

The story opens following Kate Mercer, who is depressed and living with her grandparents after her parents died in a tragic car accident. She cuts off ties to all her old friends back in America and is content being a recluse for the rest of her life as she works her way through high school. Then, she meets this mysterious Frenchman named Vincent. He is more than he seems.

As she falls in love with him, it becomes clear that he is more than human, he is a revenant. He's a being who spends eternity giving in to the call to save people over and over again. In turn, killing him over and over again. He comes back each time, but it's hard for a mortal, like Kate to watch. Meanwhile, there's an eternal war going on that finds Kate in the middle.

This is a typical human girl falls for paranormal boy story which we all know and love to read over and over again. The beginning of the story was hard to get through. Kate is depressed (for good reason) and so the story drags a bit. However, once things pick up, they really pick up. I was up until 1am finishing this book, despite my husbands groans of annoyance at the light. LOL!

Amy Plum is the author of DIE FOR ME, an international bestselling Young Adult series set in Paris which comprises of three novels (DIE FOR ME, UNTIL I DIE, IF I SHOULD DIE) and three novellas (DIE FOR HER, DIE ONCE MORE, INSIDE THE WORLD OF DIE FOR ME). Her second series is a duology. Amy describes AFTER THE END and UNTIL THE BEGINNING as “a faux-post-apocalyptic, road trip, adventure, romance, thriller with a bit of magic.” Her third series is the DREAMFALL duology, which was optioned for television by DiGa Studios. (MTV’s Teen Wolf, Scream). The second book, NEVERWAKE, releases in August 2018.

Her books have been translated into thirteen languages.

After being raised in Birmingham, Alabama, in a rather restrictive environment, AMY PLUM escaped to Chicago to an even more restrictive environment at a university that expelled people for dancing. (And where she was called to the dean’s office for “wearing too much black”.) After all of that restrictiveness, she was forced to run far far away, specifically to Paris, France, where she only wore black and danced all she wanted.

After five years in Paris, she ventured to London, where she got an M.A. in Medieval Art History, specializing in Early Sienese Painting (1260-1348) mainly because it promised almost no hope of finding a paying job afterward.

Amy managed to find work in the world of art and antiques in New York. But after almost a decade of high-pressure lifestyle in the Big Apple, she swapped her American city for a French village of 1300 inhabitants.

After signing with HarperCollins for the DIE FOR ME series, Amy left her job as an English professor at Tours University to write full-time. She now lives in Paris with her two children.

She is a huge fan of Edward Gorey and Maira Kalman (and collects both of their books and art), as well as David Sedaris, Amadeo Modigliani, and Ira Glass. For more info on Amy and her books, go here: http://www.amyplumbooks.com/

I give this book 4 stars: ****