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Dec. 30th, 2009 06:18 pmI cuddled up with another ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
yalitlovers favourite while fending off a cold today, which was not such a bad way to spend a snowy winter's day.
I don't know how to describe this bookwithout giving too much away, so I shall refrain from going into too much about Becca Fitzpatrick's first book. Following in the vein of many a YA book about vulnerable young women and dangerous young men, I'll say that it's not about vampires. Perhaps sensing vampire fatigue, Fitzpatrick chooses another immortal that is rather more compelling than vampires.
That immortal would be a mysterious high school student named Patch who seems to follow Nora Grey everywhere she goes. For those who complained about Edward Cullen's creepy habits, well, Patch's actions would send them overboard Patch is kind of the anti-Edward, come to think of it.
The horror in the story is subtle and fascinating, and I even found it a little uncomfortable at times. The actions of some of the adults in the book are also disturbing, but then these are easily explained by last third of the book. There are so many twists and turns in that last third that I didn't mind the cliched outcome. I realized I forgot to say that I did enjoy the book :-)
There's also an interesting sexual message that just wasn't around when I was a teenager, and I'm always at a loss to know how to feel about it as an oldster - Nora and her best friend Vee are 16 in the books - yet there's a frankness to the passions that Nora feels when Patch is around that took me by surprise. The overall theme reminded me vaguely of Joyce Carol Oates short story "Where are you going, Where have you been?" in the sense that Nora begins to realize that she is attractive to boys and finds herself strangely compelled by Patch.
yalitlovers favourite while fending off a cold today, which was not such a bad way to spend a snowy winter's day. I don't know how to describe this bookwithout giving too much away, so I shall refrain from going into too much about Becca Fitzpatrick's first book. Following in the vein of many a YA book about vulnerable young women and dangerous young men, I'll say that it's not about vampires. Perhaps sensing vampire fatigue, Fitzpatrick chooses another immortal that is rather more compelling than vampires.
That immortal would be a mysterious high school student named Patch who seems to follow Nora Grey everywhere she goes. For those who complained about Edward Cullen's creepy habits, well, Patch's actions would send them overboard Patch is kind of the anti-Edward, come to think of it.
The horror in the story is subtle and fascinating, and I even found it a little uncomfortable at times. The actions of some of the adults in the book are also disturbing, but then these are easily explained by last third of the book. There are so many twists and turns in that last third that I didn't mind the cliched outcome. I realized I forgot to say that I did enjoy the book :-)
There's also an interesting sexual message that just wasn't around when I was a teenager, and I'm always at a loss to know how to feel about it as an oldster - Nora and her best friend Vee are 16 in the books - yet there's a frankness to the passions that Nora feels when Patch is around that took me by surprise. The overall theme reminded me vaguely of Joyce Carol Oates short story "Where are you going, Where have you been?" in the sense that Nora begins to realize that she is attractive to boys and finds herself strangely compelled by Patch.
