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The Shattering
Jul. 16th, 2012 10:47Healey, Karen. The Shattering. New York: Little, Brown, and Company, 2011.
I liked Karen Healey's first novel Guardian of the Dead quite a lot despite some flaws, and Healey herself is one of those people I know mostly from the Internet and would like, in a perfect world, to know better. *waves* So when I was offered a signed ARC of her second novel, The Shattering, I was quite excited. I think in a lot of ways this is a tighter book, and maybe even a better one, than Guardian of the Dead, and I enjoyed it a lot - though, rereading my review of the first book, it's clear that I liked the first one better, or at least, that one got me in the emotions in a way that this one didn't quite manage.
( Mild spoilers also contain discussion of suicide )
All in all, I'm looking forward to Healey's next book, When We Wake.
I liked Karen Healey's first novel Guardian of the Dead quite a lot despite some flaws, and Healey herself is one of those people I know mostly from the Internet and would like, in a perfect world, to know better. *waves* So when I was offered a signed ARC of her second novel, The Shattering, I was quite excited. I think in a lot of ways this is a tighter book, and maybe even a better one, than Guardian of the Dead, and I enjoyed it a lot - though, rereading my review of the first book, it's clear that I liked the first one better, or at least, that one got me in the emotions in a way that this one didn't quite manage.
( Mild spoilers also contain discussion of suicide )
All in all, I'm looking forward to Healey's next book, When We Wake.