Levithan creates an immersive emotional experience here, with Evan easily recognizable as the boy who was already settling for being a friend when he ached to be more. Already haunted by guilt and grief, Evan is further tormented by the photographs someone has been strategically leaving for him, photographs that shadow his actions with Ariel and suggest there was someone in Ariel’s life about whom he knew nothing. Evan narrates in tense, jagged sentences that bleed with raw emotion as he fights for control, often crossing out the most revealing utterances as he tips into stream of consciousness, and reveals piece by piece that the very troubled Ariel attempted to kill herself. The “you” he addresses there is a girl named Ariel, whose lacerating absence is keenly felt the “us” is narrator Evan, who loved her beyond anything but couldn’t have her to himself, and Jack, Ariel’s boyfriend, to whom Evan turns after Ariel’s departure. “Between us, we were supposed to know you,” says the narrator of this poignant novel. Starred Review, The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books, October 2011
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The whole mark on the forehead was also really hard to picture because it described it as this huge thing and all I could thing was “uhg that would totally suck as a teenager. The way it starts out you’re expected to understand and know all this information about weird living-vampire-kid-things. Ok so this book was both enjoyable but also extremely confusing. When she discovers that the leader of the Dark Daughters, the school’s most elite club, is mis-using her Goddess-given gifts, Zoey must look deep within herself for the courage to embrace her destiny – with a little help from her new vampyre friends (or Nerd Herd, as Aphrodite calls them) But she is not the only fledgling at the House of Night with special powers. She has been Marked as special by the vampyre Goddess Nyx and has affinities for all five elements: Air, Fire Water, Earth and Spirit. Genre: Young Adult- Fantasy, Paranormal, Romanceĭescription: After a Vampire Tracker Marks her with a crescent moon on her forehead, 16-year-old Zoey Redbird enters the House of Night and learns that she is no average fledgling. Cast and Kristin Cast (which I was going to wait until I finished Immortal Rules but this one just sucked me in) and am currently reading Immortal Rules between books. Although I still have regular reviews to post I’m still floating along in the bloodlust. As many of you probably remember I am taking part in Emma’s Vampire Readathon for the month of July. Įugenides knew he wanted to be a writer from a relatively early age, stating "I decided very early during my junior year of high school. in English and Creative Writing from Stanford University. I felt that since I was going to try to add to the tradition, I had better know something about it." In 1986, he earned an M.A. I entered the honors program in English, which forced me to study the entire English tradition, beginning with Beowulf. Of his decision to study at Brown, Eugenides remarked "I chose Brown largely in order to study with John Hawkes, whose work I admired. He graduated from Brown in 1982 after taking a year off to travel across Europe and volunteer with Mother Teresa in Calcutta, India. He attended Grosse Pointe's private University Liggett School and then Brown University (where he became friends with contemporary Rick Moody ). The Virgin Suicides served as the basis of a feature film, while Middlesex received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in addition to being a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the International Dublin Literary Award, and France's Prix Médicis.Įugenides was born in Detroit, Michigan to a father of Greek descent and a mother of English and Irish ancestry. He has written numerous short stories and essays, as well as three novels: The Virgin Suicides (1993), Middlesex (2002), and The Marriage Plot (2011). Jeffrey Kent Eugenides (born March 8, 1960) is an American novelist and short story writer. |