Before (Heaven and Hell) by Cambria Hebert

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Read: January 2, 2012
read in >30 minutes
pages: really short




This was an ok story. Nothing fabulous. Not impressed enough to consider purchasing the first book in the Heaven and Hell series. It had a feel of most teen novels, the not so great ones. The girl's name is actually Heven. Ugh. Very unoriginal. This was just a free short story introducing the characters for the series. The monster that Sam speaks of working for was a bit interesting just because they never mention what exactly the monster was. I'd like to know but I'm not dying to know.

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