Net Galley Review: A Beautiful Dark by Jocelyn Davies
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date: 09/27/2011
ISBN: 9780061990656
Genre: Literature & Fiction, Romance, Teens & YA
“Prepare to be proven wrong. Clue number one: You were late for homeroom. You’re never late for homeroom. Clue number two: Your arrival to homeroom happen to coincide with the arrival of two new hot guys~who you apparently rescued…Clue number three: You’re getting flustered and defensive. This is really a textbook case. Clue number four: You couldn’t stop turning around to look behind you, though you tried to make it look like you weren’t by rooting through your backpack~..and this brings us to the final and most important clue: You haven’t touched your lunch.” Pg. 40
Skye believes that her life is normal: She has great friends, school is, well- school, and she is loved dearly by her Aunt Jo, Skye’s legal guardian following her parents’ tragic death on her 6th birthday. Strange things begin to happen to her; for example, she randomly fries the thermostat in her house just by touching it. Her eyes change colors from gray to liquid silver when she is emotional. To add to her newly found complications, Skye meets Asher and Devin, two handsome and mysterious students that transferred to her school and appear to be fighting for her attention.
After listening to a campfire story, Skye connects the invisible dots to all the strange things that have been happening to her since turning seventeen. What she finds is unbelievable, scary, and impossible. Devin wants to reassure her while Asher encourages her to fight back, but fight back against whom? Skye is hopelessly in love with both the dark and the light, and she cannot tell which one will save her life and help her find and fulfill her destiny.
I loved every page of this book! It kept my attention, even when I wasn’t reading. I thought the tension between Skye, Asher, and Devon was entertaining- and as a reader, it’s difficult to choose which boy is more likable [exactly Skye’s predicament!]. Cassie, Skye’s best friend, offers comic relief to the story, as “drama” seems to find her everywhere she goes. The only frustrating thing… the book ended too soon! It’s a cliffhanger, and because the story is so dang good- I will have wait impatiently for the sequel.
I give this book my highest rating: A+ Teens everywhere will love this story!
