book review (in the arms of stone angels)

(Read: 7/June)

In the Arms of Stone Angels                           

Dets

Stand alone

Pub: March 2011, Harlequin

Author: Jordan Dane

Cat: general/ fantasy & Magical Realism

Format: paperback; has 310 pages with 20 chapters.

Age range: young adult

Synopsis

Two years ago Brenna did the unthinkable. She witnessed the aftermath of a murder and accused her only true friend – the first boy she ever loved – of being a killer.

  Now sixteen, Brenna returns to Oklahoma only to discover that Issac ‘White Bird’ Henry isn’t in juvie. The half-breed outcast is in a mental hospital, frozen in time, locked in his mind at the worst moment of his life. When Brenna touches him, she’s pulled into his hellish vision quest, seeing terrifying demons and illusions she doesn’t understand.

  Feeling isolated and alone, Brenna’s up against the whole town: targeted by bullying former classmates, a bigoted small town sheriff and a tribe who refuses to help one of their own.

  But when Brenna realises she’s as trapped by the past as White Bird is, this time she won’t turn her back on him. She’s the only one who can free them both. Even if she has to expose her secret – a ‘gift’ she’s kept hidden her whole life.

                      my Thoughts (review)

this book... I had picked it up ‘cause I wanted something to read, never thinking that it would be any good. But wow did I get things wrong.

  The plot, the characters, even the ass ones, the...the... everything in the book was absolutely awesome. 

So seeing her best friend holding a dead girl in his arms, rocking her back and forth while whispering and holding the knife that killed her in his hands, Brenna sent her only friend and boy she ever loved into the cops. But then what would you do?

  Two years later she is forced back to the town her family left after she was blamed for something she reported, and he was put into a mental institution.

  But things weren’t what she thought and even while being threatened and hurt by those who were friends to the dead girl, Brenna is the only one that can help her friend out of whatever it is he’s trapped in, and solved the crime, who really killed the queen bee? 

That is something that left me shocked; though it was obvious when you look back on it the book, just not while your reading it.

  It was so good that once I finished it all I wanted was to pick it up again, read the thing over, and that has never happened before. It was just a great great book, really should be read.

Others of her work: a Sweet Justice series.