If I Should Die by Amy Plum

I was so excited to start this book as I've read the other two and couldn't wait to see how she would finish the trilogy off. Funny story (well to me it is) I had actually been searching for the first book in this series; Die for Me for ages, I would look in all the local bookstores where I left and could never find it and I didn't want to order it online until my wonderful boyfriend ended up spotting it on the shelf when we went book shopping. After I'd bought it I read it pretty much straight away, and then found the next one in another bookshop for a £1 so it was a bargain and it was brand new. Low and behold when I went to read the next one I realised it was the third one and was devastated because I was so excited to finish the series, anyway long story short it took me like a year to finish them cos I couldn't find the second book in stores for ages too.

So on to the review, I will give you the main gist of the whole story:

• Die for Me;

So basically it's about a girl called Kate who has to move to Paris with her sister Georgie because their parents died in a car crash so they move in with their grandparents. So Kate is quite a shy girl who likes to escape her misery in books and art and just be alone, until one day she meets Vincent.. First of all she meets a group of mysterious people in a cafe who she later sees saving a girl as she goes to jump off a bridge which leaves Kate with all sorts of questions which when she later confronts them they claim to be apart of the police and it's their job to do them types of things. Kate later starts to date Vincent and one day he leaves her to go off and do something with his friend Jules, Kate being inquisitive decides that she wants to follow them, leading her to the met where Kate witnesses Jules trying to save a guy who goes to commit suicide, they both die and Kate has a lot of questions for Vincent, who decides he doesn't want to go into detail which leads to Kate leaving him, later she has to do a project for school where she sees a picture of Vincent and his friends from the 1960s looking identical to what they do in the present. Later she goes to his house to apologise about Jules where she then finds Vincent's dead body leading Jules to say that he will explain everything. So they're Revanants and she learns everything about them and why they're dead and all that, she then finds out that her sister is dating someone called Lucian who is a bad guy as he is a numa and it all comes to the end when Lucian turns up at the La Masion and attacks the house leading Vincent to take over Kate's body while he is Volant and attacking him to then killing him.

• Until I Die

So it starts where two of the old revenants leave and two more names Violette and Arthur take their place. Kate then finds out that Vincent is known as the champion but she's not sure about it, she starts to do a load of research to come up with a way that will help them be together in the future. In  a meeting with the revenants Arthur singles Kate out and says that she is untrustworthy which results in her having to leave the meeting and a vendetta that Kate feels towards him. She later becomes good friends with Violette and the pair start going to moves together and Violette starts sending her flowers with hidden meanings behind them that only Kate will understand. During this her papys gallery gets broken into by numa who are trying to find information on the champion and the Guerisseur so that they can figure out who the champion is. Kate suspects that Arthur is the bad guy all along and that he is the one who is after Vincent for him being the champion, she explains all this to her sister Georgia and they go on   mission to follow him. A battle breaks out and it turns out it was Violette who was the bad guy all along, saying that she wanted Vincent for herself to take his champion powers and have them for herself, she throws him over a balcony onto a collection of chairs and the numa take his body threatening that they will burn it. Which leaves Kate and the rest of the revenants hopeless that they will kill him. HUGE CLIFFHANGER!

And now the main review;

• If I Should Die

So it starts with Kate crying outside because she feels she has lost Vincent forever, he then starts speaking to her in Volant form and explains that he feels he doesn't have much time left. Vincent goes in search of Bran hoping that he can give her help on what to do and how to save him, he tells her of the spell that could bring Vincent back into his own body. When Violette releases Vincent (by this point she has already burnt his body so he is linked to her) for 3 days they do their best to make the spell work and bring him back, and the first attempt failed the second one works but only just. Vincent comes back and Kate is over the moon thinking she would never see her love again. Once they get ready to leave New York and return back to Paris Jules explains to Vincent that he needs to stay there as he is not ready to leave telling Vincent that he has fallen in love with Kate and that it's too difficult for him. More plot twists happen when Vincent finds out JB has betrayed them when he made a deal with Lucian to help protect his people as well as the numa, when Vincent confronts him he leaves the La Masion and puts Vincent in control and Charlotte as his second. Kate then finds out that Violette has her grandmother and tells her to come to the hotel she is staying at and to bring Vincent she tries to keep it from him but he turns up anyway. When they confront her things get confusing, she goes to kill Vincent again but Kate offers her self up as sacrifice and she stabs her.. 4 days later Kate reawakens and it turns out that she is a revenant and not only that she is a champion. She escapes from Violette and finds out that Vincent still feels the same as he did when she was human and her family just need to adjust to it. Another battle breaks out and long story short, Kate chops Violette's head off and kills her, Jean Baptiste gets killed and his body thrown into a pit of fire and he dies. All in all Vincent and Kate are still together, Georgia and Arthur finally kills and Ambrose finally tells Charlotte how he feels.

So I loved this book, I thought it had the right amount of energy and love and just so much tension and it was beautiful, I was shocked when it turned out that Kate was a revenant but when you think about it properly it's not really a shock it's sort of expected and you can sort of tell by the way she can communicate with Vincent which is also how I sort of knew she would be the champion, as soon as I found out she was revenant I knew she would be the champion. It didn't lack in anything it was a fantastic read and I'm just gutted that the series is over now and I really want to read her novella but I don't have a kindle :( but yeah, there isn't enough good things I can tell you about this book because it is just so good, and I still love Vincent and Kate's relationship they're just adorable. 

Extras;

Revenants: People who died saving someone and keep doing it after death. Each time a revenant dies, they reanimate at the same age that they had died the very first time. Revenants are not human, but immortal.

Dormant: When a revenant's body is hibernating, but their mind is still active. (This is when a revenant looks and feels like they're dead.)

Patrol: When revenants travel in threes.

Volant: When a revenant's mind leaves their minds, they have a sixth-sense where they can sense when something is going to happen that the others can use to save someone.

Numa: Revenants, but in reverse. Their jobs isn't to save lives, but to destroy them. They never die because they keep killing.

Champion: The person who takes over Jean-Baptiste's place when Jean-Baptiste dies. The Champion also possess preternatural powers of endurance, persuasion, strength, and communication. The Champion's power can also be transmitted by force. The guerisseur will identify the Champion.

Guerisseur: A person who have special abilities regarding revenants.

I rate this 5 out of 5 starts.