Author: Kristen
Heitzmann
Genre: Adventure,
mystery
My rating
on a 1-10 scale: 8.5
Type: Fiction
Number of
pages: 460
Time
period: Present
Passage
from book (first two paragraphs): The
blow came like the torrent below, hard and swift and unexpected. Framed by
jungle foliage, a face, the thrust of an arm. Her spine arched. She screamed,
jerked, and pinwheeled, then splashed in and went under. Swept up in fluid
momentum, her head broke the surface. A shout bounced off the canyon wall. She
couldn’t turn to place it, couldn’t catch the words. Another shout, drowned by
an ominous roar. Realizing the danger, she kicked against the rabid current,
but it surged, tipped, and flung her down, down to the pounding base. It drove
her into the pool, tumbling and crushing, exploding it percussive blasts like
war around her. She hit something hard. Pain seared her head. Her limbs
slackened. Darkness.
My overall
opinion: Great cover (gets half a point just for that), great opening
(honestly, who could put that down?), and a fascinating story! My only problem?
It mentioned Jane Austen…except it said Jane Austin. With an i. BAD. It is for
older readers, again, some slightly thematic (though definitely not explicit)
material, and yeah, just for older as opposed to younger.
