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|title=The Alchemy of Forever

|sort=Alchemy of Forever

|borrow=Yes

|isbn=9780857076816

|pages=256

|publisher=Simon & Schuster Childrens Books

|date=April 2012

|video=QDGjJ8aA5GE

|summary=Hit and miss paranormal which has some good points but ultimately fails to stand out from the crowd.

}}

Back in the Middle Ages, Seraphina nearly died. Her boyfriend Cyrus saved her life - at the cost of someone else's. Using his newly discovered Alchemy potion, he transferred her soul into another body. They've now lived over 600 years, changing bodies every decade or so, but Sera is tired of this unnatural existence and is determined to end it. She runs away from Cyrus, ready to die for real this time. When she finds sixteen-year-old Kailey, who's just been involved in a car accident, her good intentions waver and she takes over the dying girl's body. Could this be her chance for a new start?

As always, I recommend anyone with any interest in paranormal books to try the superb Caster Chronicles, which start with [[Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl]]. For a couple of excellent recent releases in the genre, I really enjoyed [[A Witch in Winter by Ruth Warburton]] and found the paranormal/sci-fi hybrid [[The Repossession by Sam Hawksmoor]] to be completely crazy but quite wonderful.

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