Published by: Flux, February 8th 2010
Genre: YA, Paranormal
Pages: 206
Pages: 206
Format: Paperback
Source: Purchased
Elizah Rayne is nothing like other 14-year-old girls. More interested in bird bones than people, she wraps herself in silence. When Elizah and her mother move into an old house that borders a cemetery, Elizah finds a human jawbone by the river and meets Nathaniel, a hypnotic and mysterious boy who draws her into his world.
I read this book in one sitting and I'm pretty glad I did because I would not have liked to waste another day on it. Light Beneath Ferns was an alright book. I'd been excited for it, though, so I'm kinda disappointed. I thought it might have been amazing, but it was just pretty okay.
The main character is unique as far as YA protagonists go, but she is a complete special snowflake. She seems to think she's better than other girls because she doesn't like going to parties, because she prefers hanging out in a graveyard and collecting bones. And okay, that's fine, but that doesn't make those girls any less of a person than you. So that annoyed me.
And then there's the romance. Nathaniel just appears one day, and keeps appearing subsequent days out of nowhere, and the main character doesn't think a single thing of it. He takes her to a village that stopped existing hundreds of years ago, and she thinks nothing of it. He tells her absolutely nothing about himself, and she's like okay that's fine. She asks questions and he basically tells her to shut the fuck up. It's controlling at worst, problematic at best.
But the writing is quite lovely in places and the atmosphere is pretty eerie and queer.
The main character is unique as far as YA protagonists go, but she is a complete special snowflake. She seems to think she's better than other girls because she doesn't like going to parties, because she prefers hanging out in a graveyard and collecting bones. And okay, that's fine, but that doesn't make those girls any less of a person than you. So that annoyed me.
And then there's the romance. Nathaniel just appears one day, and keeps appearing subsequent days out of nowhere, and the main character doesn't think a single thing of it. He takes her to a village that stopped existing hundreds of years ago, and she thinks nothing of it. He tells her absolutely nothing about himself, and she's like okay that's fine. She asks questions and he basically tells her to shut the fuck up. It's controlling at worst, problematic at best.
But the writing is quite lovely in places and the atmosphere is pretty eerie and queer.
Characters ★★☆☆☆
Setting/world building ★★★☆☆
Writing Style ★★★☆☆
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