#published 2010

Review: Dead Beautiful (Dead Beautiful #1) by Yvonne Woon

Dead Beautiful by Yvonne Woon Publisher: Disney-Hyperion Published Date: September 21, 2010 Genre: Paranormal, Young Adult, Romance My rating: 4 of 5 stars (3.5 stars) Blub: 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…

Kiss my collarbone goodbye.

Cut, crisscrossed, against its ridges and, for the last time, engrave your teeth on my skin.

Burrow them under my blood vessels and tear the feeling from my breast.

And when you’re finished, lick the taste of me from your lips, slow and try to birdcage it in your brain so that, someday, you can sit and listen to the memory of me sing.

Lift your head from the prospect of my final harvest and there will be the face of my affection for you - hollow, and watching your appetite end.

Today, while it was still warm, I walked for hours in the sun.

I imagined that my arm was elbow-deep into your bones - the brittle white cage that protects your pulse.

I broke the shell of you - pulled at the cords and squeezed them between my fingers, tangling and tearing any fiber that would be frayed.

I tired their loose ends back together and lingered in your cavern, carving into the walls any words I thought beautiful.

I imagined that your blood was slick and orange - full of pregnant seeds. You: A pumpkin I was harvesting. And I felt warm and healthy.

I imagined you, rotten and melting into the dirt beneath my feet.