Author: Amy
Garvey
Publisher: HarperTeen
Genre: Young
Adult, Paranormal
Release Date:
September 20, 2011
Source:
Gifted (RAK)
It was a beautiful, warm summer day, the day Danny died.
Suddenly Wren was alone and shattered. In a heartbroken fury, armed with dark incantations and a secret power, Wren decides that what she wants--what she "must" do--is to bring Danny back.
But the Danny who returns is just a shell of the boy Wren fell in love with. His touch is icy; his skin, smooth and stiff as marble; his chest, cruelly silent when Wren rests her head against it.
Wren must keep Danny a secret, hiding him away, visiting him at night, while her life slowly unravels around her. Then Gabriel DeMarnes transfers to her school, and Wren realizes that somehow, inexplicably, he can sense the powers that lie within her--and that he knows what she has done. And now Gabriel wants to help make things right.
But Wren alone has to undo what she has wrought--even if it means breaking her heart all over again.
A very well
written story by Amy Garvey in her first Young Adult novel. It reminded me of Practical Magic, you know, the movie
with Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman and the two crazy aunts played by Dianne
Wiest and Stockard Channing (I loved that movie!). Although, unfortunately, you
don’t get an appearance by crazy aunts. But there is mention of “special”
relatives in this beautiful and haunting (Lauren
Kate) page turner.
Wren is a
confused and heartbroken seventeen year old girl who recently lost the love of
her life in a horrific car accident. With her budding “powers” she decides to
take matters into her own hands and raise her beloved Danny from the grave. But
the consequences aren’t what she expected or thought of. Danny becomes very
attached to Wren after his second birth and Wren feels very overwhelmed with it
all.
Alienated by
her friends and not being able to talk to her friends or even her own mother
about what is going on, she reluctantly turns to outsider and new comer,
Gabriel. Gabriel also has the “gift”, the gift of mind reading, kind of like an
Edward Cullen sort of thing. Soon, Wren and Gabriel find their friendship
budding into something else and Wren feeling hopeless and even more confused
with Danny still being a walking corpse.
Everything,
of course, works out in the end. However, I wish that we got to hear more about
her family and their abilities and exactly how powerful her mother really is.
It also would have been nice to know exactly what happens to her father so
early on in her life. Garvey just leaves the reader hanging on that one.
Hopefully in the second book she will reveal some more of this.
All in all, this was a very great book. I couldn’t put it down, and when
I did, believe me, it was hard, since I have a 3 year old running around, haha.
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