Dead Beautiful by Yvonne Woon

Once again this was another book that I have no other book to compare to! The story was totally unique and I haven't read anything like it.  It is a take on life and death and what effect love has on both.  Renee found her parents dead on her seventeenth birthday, mysteriously in the woods with coins on their eyes & scattered on the ground along with gauze in their mouths.  The police said they died of heart attacks but Renee is skeptical.  Her parents were still too young to have heart attacks, and at the same exact moment?  And why were they in the woods?  With no one left her estranged grandfather comes to claim her.  He insists she come home with him from her home in California to the east coast in Maine.  She soon finds that the private academy she attends is no ordinary academy at all.  Adding to the mysterious death of her parents, there seem to be more and more mysterious happenings surrounding Gottfried Academy that somehow tie into her parents deaths.  Add into that Renee's supposed soul mate Dante who is also mysterious and handsome and this story is very good.  I won't give away anything, but I didn't put this down until I was done.  It's very good.  You can't help but feel some sympathy for Renee and route for her.  I'm going to immediately start the second book of this series called Life Eternal.  Happy Reading, this was a great one!