Darkness+Becomes+Her+-+Courtesy+of+Melissa+H.,+age+14

Gr 9 Up—Always an outsider. With her teal eyes and nearly silver hair, foster child Ari is determined to find her mother. Her search leads her to New 2-what New Orleans became after terrible hurricanes destroyed it and caused it to be abandoned by most people, except for the different ones-the ones like Ari, who look strange or can do odd things. Magical things. There, she meets a motley group of talented kids who help her find out about her mother. But the answers she finds are almost too much to bear, including an ancient curse on the women of her family that always ends with an infant daughter and suicide by age 21. When things get crazier, Ari despairs of ever being "normal"-in fact, she wonders if she will even survive to her 21st birthday. This is an absolutely gripping novel, one I devoured in a single sitting and that left me hungering for more. Boasting an insanely interesting plot line, realistic characters, (yes, they did have powers, but what isn't possible in the magic-filled streets of New 2?), a touch of Greek mythology, and a dash of sweet teen romance, this is undoubtedly one of my all-time favorites, a hard thing to achieve. Readers young and old will adore Kelly Keaton's //Darkness Becomes Her//.—Marissa H., age 14
 * KEATON**, Kelly. //Darkness Becomes Her//. February 2011. Simon Pulse. Tr $16.99. ISBN 978-1-442-40924-8

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