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Bree Despain has written a wonderfully detailed tale of friendship, betrayals, and a love so true it can save even the most doomed of souls. It kept me reading late into the night and thinking about it long after I put it down.The Dark Divine is a story with a little bit of everything mixed in. Not only did it have a wide variety of characters but it had a wide variety of messages. Messages about forgiveness, friendship, and the true meaning of love. It was more than I ever expected to get out of the book.The characters in the book were really lovable. Grace was a just a confused teenage girl, torn between her love for her brother and her love for the boy from her childhood, the one Jude can never forgive. Jude was a little more complicated a character. He didn't know who he was anymore or how to fix what he'd done. Daniel was my favorite, of course. He looked at himself as a monster when really he was just a boy who had made some bad decisions that changed who he was. Grace was the only one who could help him, but doing so might cause her to lose herself.Of course, there were some other characters but they weren't as important. Well I guess they were all important to the story but those three were the most important to me. The other ones just didn't have as big an impact on me.Also, the mystery of what kind of monster Daniel was kept me flipping the pages. I kind of guessed at it early in the book but it wasn't confirmed until later. And it really wasn't what I expected. Bree Despain did a great job with this book. There wasn't anything predictable about it. I know it will keep you reading til you are done. And it will probably leave you wanting more. =]Overall, The Dark Divine is another great book of 2009. It's definitely worth the money, in my opinion. I can't wait for more from Bree Despain and if it happens to be a sequel, I wouldn't complain!