Review Detail

Name: Meridian

Author: Amber Kizer

Pages: 320

Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers

Published: August 11, 2009

Rating: 4 1/2

Cover Rating: 5

Genre: YA Fiction/ Paranomal/ Mystery

Summary: Half-human, half-angel, Meridian Sozu has a dark responsibility. Sixteen-year-old Meridian has been surrounded by death ever since she can remember. As a child, insects, mice, and salamanders would burrow into her bedclothes and die. At her elementary school, she was blamed for a classmates tragic accident. And on her sixteenth birthday, a car crashes in front of her family homeand Meridians body explodes in pain. Before she can fully recover, Meridian is told that shes a danger to her family and hustled off to her great-aunts house in Revelation, Colorado. Its there that she learns that she is a Fenestrathe half-angel, half-human link between the living and the dead. But Meridian and her sworn protector and love, Tens, face great danger from the Aternocti, a band of dark forces who capture vulnerable souls on the brink of death and cause chaos.

My Review: There is nothing i love more than a story that jumps right into action. So naturally Meridian instantly caught my attention. Not ten pages in did i have to wait for the action to start.

Meridian isn't a slow passed book, but not entirely fast passed either (i suppose it's balanced) but i found the speed just right. Fast enough to keep you turning the pages as fast as you can and slow enough that you understand everything and you don't have to re-read a paragraph to make sure you understood.

(Never thought I'd say this but....)

Interesting take on death and how it all works.

The fact of how different Meridian is strikes you from the first sentence 'The first creatures to seek me where the insects; my parents cleaned the bassinet of dead ants the morning after they brought me home from the hospital.' And from that first sentence i just had to know the mystery behind this strange girl and why dead things kept showing up around her. This answer came rather quickly which is the only thing i can find fault with. Though even then the story doesn't slow down for a minute it just picks up speed.

I have to say me and my perceptiveness knew there was something more to be told with a connection between Tens and Meridian the second they met and am glad i was right :)

You find out about halfway threw the story that Auntie has to train Meridian before she dies. This was rather sad but not at all depressing it just made the story even more interesting.

I really really liked the ending. I know that's not much to go on but i don't want to give it away.

You really need to add this book to the long list of books you need to read if you haven't already.

I'm highly anticipating the second book and you can count on a random blog post as soon as any info is released about it.