from my blog Reader's Enchantment at http://readersenchantment.blogspot.com/:
With a slow start, Meridian can be hard to stick with, but it's so worth it!
Meridian Sozu is a teenage girl who has always had things die around her. Ants, turtles, rabbits, all seem to come to her to die. She and her family avoid taking about what is going on, until suddenly, on her 16th birthday, she is sent from her home and family to live with an Aunt she hardly knows. It turns out that Meridian is a fenestra, a window to the afterlife, that souls pass through. She is not Death (which is what she was afraid of all along) and she is one of a dwindling number of fenestras in the world. As with everything else, there is a bad side, an evil side, that wants her to join them in the destruction of life. With her aunt's help, Meridian must learn to control her powers, and she has just a few weeks to learn how to allow souls to move through her without taking her with them.
This is the first book in a series, and it's easy to see: a lot of world building happens in this book. However, the next book in this series is not coming out til Fall 2011! That's a long time to try to keep readers, especially young adults, interested. That's pretty much my only complaint about this book. The last 50 pages or so is when the action really heats up, and of course the book ends just when things really get good. I give Meridian 4 stars for its unique storyline. In the meantime, you can check out Meridian's website at Meridian Sozu.com (Interesting note: the cover to the Turkish edition of this book has Amy Lee, the lead singer of Evanescence, on it.)
With a slow start, Meridian can be hard to stick with, but it's so worth it!
Meridian Sozu is a teenage girl who has always had things die around her. Ants, turtles, rabbits, all seem to come to her to die. She and her family avoid taking about what is going on, until suddenly, on her 16th birthday, she is sent from her home and family to live with an Aunt she hardly knows. It turns out that Meridian is a fenestra, a window to the afterlife, that souls pass through. She is not Death (which is what she was afraid of all along) and she is one of a dwindling number of fenestras in the world. As with everything else, there is a bad side, an evil side, that wants her to join them in the destruction of life. With her aunt's help, Meridian must learn to control her powers, and she has just a few weeks to learn how to allow souls to move through her without taking her with them.
This is the first book in a series, and it's easy to see: a lot of world building happens in this book. However, the next book in this series is not coming out til Fall 2011! That's a long time to try to keep readers, especially young adults, interested. That's pretty much my only complaint about this book. The last 50 pages or so is when the action really heats up, and of course the book ends just when things really get good. I give Meridian 4 stars for its unique storyline. In the meantime, you can check out Meridian's website at Meridian Sozu.com (Interesting note: the cover to the Turkish edition of this book has Amy Lee, the lead singer of Evanescence, on it.)
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