book review (burn bright)

  (Read: 13/May/11)

             Burn Bright                                                                

‘Listen well, baby bats. Burn bright, but do not stray from the paths. Remember, when you live in a place of darkness you also live with creatures of the dark.’

    Prod Dets

Night Creature series, book one

Pub: 2011, Random House, Australia

Author: Marianne de Pierres

Cat: fiction

Format: paperback; has 303 pages with 26 chapters in two parts

Age range: young adult

    Synopsis

Retra doesn’t want to go to Ixion, the island of every-night. Retra is a Seal – sealed minds. Sealed community. She doesn’t crave parties and pleasure like all the others. But her brother left for Ixion two years ago, and Reta is determined to find him.

  Braving the pain of her obedience strip to escape the only home she’s ever known, Reta finds herself drawn deeper into the intoxicating world of Ixion. Come to me, whispers a voice in her head. Who are the Ripers, the mysterious guardians of Ixion? What are the night creatures Retra can see in the shadows? And what happens to those who grow too old for Ixion?

  Retra will find that Ixion has its pleasures – but its secrets are deadly.

                     my Thoughts (review)

So this book seemed very familiar to me, though still I can’t place it.

  Anyway, this book is actually difficult to put into words, at least quick ones that will make sense and even more will make you want to read it, but as I started it bored me, like really, taking to nearly have way through the book for me to even really grasp what was going on, and yet, I understood. If that makes sense.

It’s one of those books that needs to be read the whole way threw and even though it has so much information, without really saying much, it doesn’t really sink in until what the information is needed for is at your fingertips. It’s odd that way, and yet it made it a good book.

So it’s about a different world, it seems, one that had lots to do with religion and yet nothing. Where there children’s children have a place to run to when they don’t want to live the way of old. And yet, it’s a place of ever night, where they are constantly reminded that they are going to end up to old to stay and that there are things that will eat them at any given time. But the pleasure of this place, the passion, the fun, that’s really want it’s all about, isn’t it.

Not saying that it’s a very chase book, seriously for the topic it has in it, really the topic the books on, the inside is chaser than any other young adults’ book I have read. But that’s not saying that there isn’t a lot of sexual passion, it’s just clean compared to what it could have been.

So Retra is a Seal, a more poss, protected breed in her town, one that aren’t allowed to show skin, aren’t allowed to speak without reason, aren’t allowed pleasure of any kind at all. For all that is corrupting, though saying that how they ever had children is beyond me.

  So she goes to Ixion, the place of ever night, to find her brother, who has one big role, and while she looks she find in herself something brave and bold, something that can both save lives, to bring everyone together and to destroy the already delicate power system of the Guardians.

It’s is a good book, just slow, and being that it’s so easy to read, it’s kinda addicting and makes you want to read on, where others that aren’t as easy make that moving through hard.

Parental note: it’s a little hard to explain, but its chase, even though it’s a book all about passion. There is only like one time when it borders sex, but then again it doesn’t. And when the passion of things gets... I don’t know, it’s a good book, and if your child is able to understand what they are reading, and I mean really understand it, then they are old enough to read the book without a problem.

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