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As seventeen-year-old Sarah, daughter of a powerful line of vampire-hunting witches, continues to pursue the ancient bloodsucker Nikolas, she finds herself in a dangerous friendship with two vampire siblings in her high school.Tags
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sandstone78 All Just Glass is the direct sequel to Shattered Mirror.
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Maybe I'm being hard on the author. Thinking back I did enjoy these books, they were fast and fun, easy reads. I particularly liked this one. The poetry in it was beautiful as was the touchy resolution at the end. I liked all of the characters and their interaction, and I really liked Christopher!
I read these in middle school and I've got to say this one was my favorite out of the three I read. I kind of got out of the teenage vampire love stories since twilight ruined everything that was awesome when I was a teen. Every once in a while I'll find an urban fantasy that brings me back nostalgically to my first few books of my addiction to the library. Root for the underdog. Looks aren't what they seem, good isn't always good, evil isn't always evil. Sometimes things aren't just black and white. Those seemed to be reoccurring lessons that made these books so enjoyable.
The author now being 17, 4 years after the first book was published.
Sarah Vida is the youngest in a family of vampire hunting witches. They are after Nikolas for show more revenge for killing one of their own a century earlier.
Sarah meets Christoper and Nissa, sibling vampires, they do not kill humans, they feed off of animals and willing humans. Sarah and Christopher start a romance, furious, her mother forbids her to see him. Anything not like them is unacceptable. To her family every vampire is evil no matter what.
When Sarah reveals who she is she infuriates her family even more and her powers are bound as she awaits a trial for her "betrayal". Her sister helps her escape.
A lot of battling and coming to terms
With who you are, maybe even adapting to the situations as need be. This is a story about growing and accepting. show less
The author now being 17, 4 years after the first book was published.
Sarah Vida is the youngest in a family of vampire hunting witches. They are after Nikolas for show more revenge for killing one of their own a century earlier.
Sarah meets Christoper and Nissa, sibling vampires, they do not kill humans, they feed off of animals and willing humans. Sarah and Christopher start a romance, furious, her mother forbids her to see him. Anything not like them is unacceptable. To her family every vampire is evil no matter what.
When Sarah reveals who she is she infuriates her family even more and her powers are bound as she awaits a trial for her "betrayal". Her sister helps her escape.
A lot of battling and coming to terms
With who you are, maybe even adapting to the situations as need be. This is a story about growing and accepting. show less
Shattered Mirror would have been exactly like the first season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer if Buffy has been less perky and faked a more "tough-girl" act. Sarah is a vampire hunting witch. She kills vampires because they are bad by definition. That is until she meets Christopher. He's a good vampire. When he was eating humans, he went by a slightly different name - Kristopher. Even though she fights it, she falls for him. Sound familiar?
The story isn't bad, the writing is simple and there isn't much graphic violence. Overall, the book wouldn't be a bad fit for the youngest of teen fiction readers. Nothing new is covered and older readers will have seen it all before.
The story isn't bad, the writing is simple and there isn't much graphic violence. Overall, the book wouldn't be a bad fit for the youngest of teen fiction readers. Nothing new is covered and older readers will have seen it all before.
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Main characters Sarah, Christopher and Nissa are in high school. I think they are authentic teen voices in that they are concerned with fitting into the high school social structure. Sarah is also struggling to find her own way despite being part of a prominent family with a famous, powerful mother. She contends with issues of family loyalty and her own emotions as she makes friends with Christopher and Nissa, friends who her mother would not approve of. Part of the appeal of this book is in the way in which the voices lack authenticity. Sarah is a vampire hunter and Christopher and Nissa are both vampires. The family history of Christopher is dark but he is struggling to keep himself from consuming human blood. Sarah is torn in show more her developing relationship with him. Teen aged author Atwater-Rhodes writes about friendships with a genuine balance of self-confidence and turmoil on the part of her main characters. Grades 8 and up. show less
Main characters Sarah, Christopher and Nissa are in high school. I think they are authentic teen voices in that they are concerned with fitting into the high school social structure. Sarah is also struggling to find her own way despite being part of a prominent family with a famous, powerful mother. She contends with issues of family loyalty and her own emotions as she makes friends with Christopher and Nissa, friends who her mother would not approve of. Part of the appeal of this book is in the way in which the voices lack authenticity. Sarah is a vampire hunter and Christopher and Nissa are both vampires. The family history of Christopher is dark but he is struggling to keep himself from consuming human blood. Sarah is torn in show more her developing relationship with him. Teen aged author Atwater-Rhodes writes about friendships with a genuine balance of self-confidence and turmoil on the part of her main characters. Grades 8 and up. show less
Another of Amelia's wonderful short stories. She has a way to make you fall for the delicious characters she writes about, this time fallowing vampire twins and a girl who discovers their secret. Basically a read for the guilty pleasure of not a story line, but your own daydreams written on the pages.
I have grown to enjoy Amelia Atwater-Rhodes writing style. Her characters are a sort of guilty pleasure and her novels continue to exceed my expectations. I did enjoy this book and will continue reading her work; I do recommend this to the young adult community.
Third in the series after In the Forests of the Night.
Caryn Smoke is a background character in this one, but she has become a powerful healer and also part of an organization promoting tolerance between vampires, witches, werewolves, and humans.
Sarah Vida, youngest of the powerful Vida line of witches, is on the hunt for Nikolas, a vampire who cuts his name into the skin of his victims. Sarah is befriended by Christopher and Nissa, two vampires who have resolved not to kill. Through them, she learns much more about Nikolas than she ever wanted to know. Of course, the book ends with a fight, a twist, and a dramatic choice for Sarah.
While the books in this series are too short to really get me hooked, they are entertaining.
Caryn Smoke is a background character in this one, but she has become a powerful healer and also part of an organization promoting tolerance between vampires, witches, werewolves, and humans.
Sarah Vida, youngest of the powerful Vida line of witches, is on the hunt for Nikolas, a vampire who cuts his name into the skin of his victims. Sarah is befriended by Christopher and Nissa, two vampires who have resolved not to kill. Through them, she learns much more about Nikolas than she ever wanted to know. Of course, the book ends with a fight, a twist, and a dramatic choice for Sarah.
While the books in this series are too short to really get me hooked, they are entertaining.
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- Canonical title
- Shattered Mirror
- Original publication date
- 2001-09-11
- People/Characters
- Sarah Vida; Christopher Ravena; Nikolas Ravena; Nissa Ravena; Adianna Vida; Caryn Smoke (show all 10); Dominique Vida; Robert; Kristin; Kaleo
- Epigraph
- The Two Trees
Beloved, gaze in thine own heart.
Gaze no more in the bitter glass
The demons, with their subtle guile.
Lift up before us when they pass,
Or only gaze a little while;
For there a fatal imag... (show all)e grows
That the stormy night receives,
Roots half hidden under snows,
Broken boughs and blackened leaves.
For ill things turn to barrenness
In the dim glass the demons hold,
The glass of outer weariness,
Made when God slept in times of old.
There, through the broken branches, go
The ravens of unresting thought;
Flying, crying, to and fro,
Cruel claw and hungry throat,
Or else they stand and sniff the wind,
And shake their ragged wings; alas!
Thy tender eyes grow all unkind:
Gaze no more in the bitter glass.
W. B. Yeats - First words
- Sarah Vida shivered
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)As Kristopher had pointed out, she had forever.
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