Paranormal Series: A series of literature reviews of Young Adult Paranormal Romances.
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| Curtsy of Goodreads |
Sixteen-year-old Zoe is having a seriously hard time with
her life. Her mom is battling cancer in the hospital, and losing. Her father is
overwhelmed with the impending death of his wife, and best friend is moving so
far away that they will not be able to see each other very often. In the middle
of all this torment, Zoe meets Simon. Simon is a vampire seeking revenge for
the death of his mother and his own turning against a most unusual antagonist.
Together, will they be able to stop this criminal before he leaves a further
string of bodies around Zoe’s town?
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| curtsy of wildisonmyside |
In Annette Curtis Klause’s debut novel, she explores grief
and the loss of close family in a pretty paranormal romance wrapping. It goes
into some pretty hard details of Zoe’s emotional state during all the events of
her life. The book is short and easy to read for younger audiences. There is
still some violent descriptions, but not near the graphic detail it could have
been. The murder, however, is a young child-be warned.
In ending the book, I wondered how this did so well when it
did not go by the typical formula. In fact, they DO NOT end up together in the
end. He is not a vampire that has chosen her as a mate and stalks her until she
loves him back. In the end, he has finally killed his brother (the young child)
and has avenged the death of his mother. His soul is able to move on and be at
rest, kind of like a ghost more than a vampire. He moves on (hopefully to a
better place) while she returns to her father so they can band together in the
slow and painful loss of her mother. It was then that I looked at the copyright
date. The Silver Kiss was published in 1992, many years before the Twilight
novels. Could this have some effect of it? Is the popularity of Twilight
affecting the plot choices of present and future paranormal romances?
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