Predictable
Through Her Eyes
By Jennifer Archer
# Pgs: 384
_________________________________________________________________________________
Overview:
Every ghost has a story to tell.
The last place Tansy Piper wants to be is stuck in Cedar Canyon, Texas, in the middle of nowhere, with a bunch of small-town kids. But when her mother decides to move to the desolate West Texas town, Tansy has no choice but to go along. Once there, Tansy is immediately drawn to the turret of their rickety old house, a place she soon learns has a disturbing history. But it's the strange artifacts she finds in the cellar—a pocket watch, a journal of poetry, and a tiny crystal—that have the most chilling impact on her.
Tansy soon finds that through the lens of her camera, she can become part of a surreal black-and-white world where her life is intertwined with that of mysterious, troubled Henry, who lived in the same house and died decades earlier. It seems their lives are linked by fate and the artifacts she found, but as Tansy begins spending more and more time in the past, her present world starts to fade away. Tansy must untangle herself from Henry's dangerous reality—before she loses touch with her own life forever.
_________________________________________________________________________________
Review:
This book is a YA paranormal romance fiction written by Jennifer Archer. I was a little wary about reading this book because of my past experiences with ghost fiction stories. I wondered how it would play out. This book did not draw from me a sense of suspence or haunt. I wasn't scared or nervous or really much of anything about this book. It was kind of flat, and majorly confusing. There were many aspects and character decisions that the author made that didn't make much sense to me. Things were either over explained, or an idea plainly repeated.
I was not sucked in to the pages, and often found I had to put the book down out of boredom. There were certain points in the book where it got exausting to read.
This ghost book contains the usual; mysterious winds, some-what possessed objects, a half-crazy main character who most of the time seems to be in a daze. It's all very dreamlike, this world that Archer created. Unreal, to a point. Which is good I suppose since it is supposed to be a paranormal fiction. It contains the same old, same old awkward teenage girl that moves into a new town, who has never seemed to have a real place to call a home except for the last place she just moved from that she now wants to, but then doesn't want to, move back to.
Maybe it's just me, but as some points it seemed like the whole "new school, mean teenagers" thing was a little over-stated. Yeah, we get it. The teenagers in this school are viscious, spoiled, daddy's trust fund babies.
I don't know, I could go on about the problems I had with this book. I suppose though that if you're a thirteen year old it's a great read. The problem is that I'm not thirteen and I think that this is a book that does not belong in a high school library. It was too flat, too boring, and it made me nauseous to read. At some points it was great, fun even, enjoyable to read... but I'd have to rate this book as a one in a half, two out of five. This is not a book I'm going to remember.
I was not sucked in to the pages, and often found I had to put the book down out of boredom. There were certain points in the book where it got exausting to read.
This ghost book contains the usual; mysterious winds, some-what possessed objects, a half-crazy main character who most of the time seems to be in a daze. It's all very dreamlike, this world that Archer created. Unreal, to a point. Which is good I suppose since it is supposed to be a paranormal fiction. It contains the same old, same old awkward teenage girl that moves into a new town, who has never seemed to have a real place to call a home except for the last place she just moved from that she now wants to, but then doesn't want to, move back to.
Maybe it's just me, but as some points it seemed like the whole "new school, mean teenagers" thing was a little over-stated. Yeah, we get it. The teenagers in this school are viscious, spoiled, daddy's trust fund babies.
I don't know, I could go on about the problems I had with this book. I suppose though that if you're a thirteen year old it's a great read. The problem is that I'm not thirteen and I think that this is a book that does not belong in a high school library. It was too flat, too boring, and it made me nauseous to read. At some points it was great, fun even, enjoyable to read... but I'd have to rate this book as a one in a half, two out of five. This is not a book I'm going to remember.
No comments:
Post a Comment