Meridian (Fenestra #1)
by Amber Kizer
Publication: 11th August 2009
Publisher: Delacorte Books For Young Readers
Pages: 320
Genre: Fantasy/Paranormal
Age Appropriate: Young Adult
Publication: 11th August 2009
Publisher: Delacorte Books For Young Readers
Pages: 320
Genre: Fantasy/Paranormal
Age Appropriate: Young Adult
Half-human, half-angel, Meridian Sozu has a dark responsibility.
Sixteen-year-old Meridian has been surrounded by death ever since she can remember. As a child, insects, mice, and salamanders would burrow into her bedclothes and die. At her elementary school, she was blamed for a classmate’s tragic accident. And on her sixteenth birthday, a car crashes in front of her family home—and Meridian’s body explodes in pain.
Before she can fully recover, Meridian is told that she’s a danger to her family and hustled off to her great-aunt’s house in Revelation, Colorado. It’s there that she learns that she is a Fenestra—the half-angel, half-human link between the living and the dead. But Meridian and her sworn protector and love, Tens, face great danger from the Aternocti, a band of dark forces who capture vulnerable souls on the brink of death and cause chaos.
Sixteen-year-old Meridian has been surrounded by death ever since she can remember. As a child, insects, mice, and salamanders would burrow into her bedclothes and die. At her elementary school, she was blamed for a classmate’s tragic accident. And on her sixteenth birthday, a car crashes in front of her family home—and Meridian’s body explodes in pain.
Before she can fully recover, Meridian is told that she’s a danger to her family and hustled off to her great-aunt’s house in Revelation, Colorado. It’s there that she learns that she is a Fenestra—the half-angel, half-human link between the living and the dead. But Meridian and her sworn protector and love, Tens, face great danger from the Aternocti, a band of dark forces who capture vulnerable souls on the brink of death and cause chaos.
My Thoughts.
From as far back as she can remember Meridian has attracted dead animals to her, waking up each morning to find dead rats, spiders and insects her backyard is like a cemetery.
On her sixteenth birthday as she's walking home there's a car accident and she experiences excruciating pain, her Dad bundles her into a car, drives her to meet up with a taxi which then takes her to the bus depot where she has a ticket to go to Revelation, Colarado to go stay with her Great Aunt Meridian (her namesake) while her family goes into hiding.
There she finds out she's a Fenestra (half -human, half-angel) and her job is to send people's souls on into heaven, her Aunt who is also a Fenestra helps to teach her as well as her protector Tens.
But there are evil forces trying to stop her called Aternocti and they want her on their side to lure souls into hell.
Of course there's a little bit of romance and I can't wait to see Meridian's and Ten's relationship develop in future books.
I did not want to put this book down it was so good and I even had a little cry, I'm now off to start the second book.
I give this 5/5
There she finds out she's a Fenestra (half -human, half-angel) and her job is to send people's souls on into heaven, her Aunt who is also a Fenestra helps to teach her as well as her protector Tens.
But there are evil forces trying to stop her called Aternocti and they want her on their side to lure souls into hell.
Of course there's a little bit of romance and I can't wait to see Meridian's and Ten's relationship develop in future books.
I did not want to put this book down it was so good and I even had a little cry, I'm now off to start the second book.
I give this 5/5
