Tezer Aktay Aktay itibaren Vever, Sırbistan
Lovely--like everyone says it is.
Sometimes this seems like the same story over and over again. Fortunately, it's a really good story.
This book is Twilight recast as demigods instead of vampires. I don't necessarily thinks thats a bad thing. For not being a good writer, Stephanie Meyer had (the majority) of her readers fully invested in her characters, and at this point, I would say I am pretty interested in Helen and Luke's relationship. This is certainly not groundbreaking and if you're going to get frustrated by seeing the same characters here as you did in Twilight, don't bother reading. Theres an Alice (complete with visions of the future), a comic-relief father character, a big-burly 'cousin' who teases Bella, oops, I mean Helen. The list goes on and on. But, as we've seen with Twilight, that formula works. Why fix what aint broken? This book could have been better had the author developed any original ideas, but it was still entertaining and the romance did make my pulse race quite a few times.
The main character, a young teen, struggles with self worth issues due to a dangerous episode at a party over the summer with older peers. She is "found out" as the person who calls the police to report the problem. She becomes practically mute, and withdraws from her surroundings when her peers ridicule her for being the one responsible for "crashing" the party. However, no one knows what she had to go through that got her to that point.
Even better second time around.
My daughter, Caroline, lent this to me. On her recommendation, I read it and enjoyed it. It definitely drew me in and it was a quick read, my bedtime reading for three or four evenings.