Author: Victoria Scott
Series: Dante Walker #1
Published: April 2, 2013
Publisher: Entangled Teen
Source: Publisher via Netgalley
Purchase: Amazon | Barnes & Noble
He makes good girls...bad.
Dante Walker is flippin’ awesome, and he knows it. His good looks, killer charm, and stellar confidence have made him one of hell’s best—a soul collector. His job is simple: weed through humanity and label those round rears with a big red good or bad stamp. Old Saint Nick gets the good guys, and he gets the fun ones. Bag-and-tag.
Sealing souls is nothing personal. Dante’s an equal-opportunity collector and doesn't want it any other way. But he’ll have to adjust, because Boss Man has given him a new assignment:
Collect Charlie Cooper’s soul within ten days.
Dante doesn't know why Boss Man wants Charlie, nor does he care. This assignment means only one thing to him, and that’s a permanent ticket out of hell. But after Dante meets the quirky Nerd Alert chick he’s come to collect, he realizes this assignment will test his abilities as a collector…and uncover emotions deeply buried.
"Oh, yes! Absolutely!" That's what I said to myself when I first saw this book. I definitely love me some bad boys! This was one I was NOT going to pass up.
Dante, the demon soul collector, gets assigned a new task from Boss Man... to collect Charlie. Poor innocent little Charlie. She's niave about boys, dorkier than all getout, and totally out of Dante's comfort zone. For a girl who does charity work on the weekends and seems to have a heart of gold, Dante is completely stumped on why Boss Man wants her. But it's not for him to worry about. She's gaudy, clumsy, and not pretty by any stretch of the imagination. She's still his project. For some reason, she's the one he's forced to collect. He sucks it up and tries to make the best of this situation. He has 10 days to collect her soul. Easy enough, right? He is the best, by his own admission. But the question remains on his mind... why her?
This story is fabulous! I love the connection between Dante and Charlie, who couldn't be more opposite if they tried. Dante is painfully errogant, overly self-absorbed and ridiculously conceited, along with being dropdead gorgeous. Yet Charlie is an awkward outcast, lacking any level of self confidence whatsoever. She has frizzy hair, bad skin, and would rather blend into the walls in school than be noticed by anyone. Dante bounces into her life and quickly starts changing things around... and poor little Charlie is so overcome by the hotness that is Dante, she quickly joins him for his insane ride of craziness... complete with a perma-grin.
This story starts off strong and continues on that way through the end. The story wouldn't be half as good without these amazing characters though. If you're anything like me, you will be overcome with love for Dante. He's the epitomy of bad boys we love to hate. I loved watching the relations between Dante and Charlie change as the story progressed. And oh man, did I loved Dante's dialect! The things he comes out with were seriously laugh-out-loud funny!
I would most definitely recommend The Collector to basically anyone that has a sense of humor, enjoys handsome bad boys, and doesn't mind endulging in a gilty pleasure book, such as myself, from time to time. ;) If you haven't read yourself some Dante, do it now! What are you waiting for?! Thankfully, there's plenty of Dante to go around! :D
At the end of the walkway is a cat. It struts with arrogance. You'd think it just won the Nobel Prize. But it didn't. Know why? Because it's a freakin' cat. In case you missed the memo, I. Hate. Cats. I loathe them. They're built with creepy little teeth and finger blades. I don't know about you, but I'll pass on that freak show.
As Charlie is leaving the house, she somehow trips on the threshold and nearly face-plants onto the ground. I roll my eyes. How is it possible out of all the people in this world, this is the soul I've come to collect?
Charlie and I should have been doing terrible, soul-searching activities. Instead, she somehow swindled me into volunteering.
Victoria Scott is a teen fiction writer represented by Sara Crowe. She's the author of THE COLLECTOR trilogy (Entangled Teen) and the FLOOD AND FIRE trilogy (Scholastic). Victoria lives in Dallas with her husband and hearts cotton candy something fierce.
I have a copy of this, so I'm so happy it's great! The quotes are super funny, too. I especially find the second one amusing :) Awesome review!
ReplyDeleteYay, so glad you loved this one...though, how could you not?!? :P Sometimes you just need a good, fun book.
ReplyDeleteOh this does sound good. I look forward to reading it.
ReplyDeleteThere is really nothing that I can say except for a repeat of your first 3 words! "Oh, yes! Absolutely!" That is pretty much the exact thing that went through my own head as soon as I saw The Collector! And then, I started reading reviews for this book, and the desire to read it became even greater! This is my kind of story. I haven't read it yet, but it is on my Kindle, and I can't wait to get to it. I think I have 2 more Kindle books before it! Yay!
ReplyDeleteGreat review! I love the quotes you used! This book has a lot of hype and I need to read it soon. <3
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