In the class of the high school English teacher she has been haunting, Helen feels them: for the first time in 130 years, human eyes are looking at her. They belong to a boy, a boy who has not seemed remarkable until now. And Helen--terrified, but intrigued--is drawn to him. The fact that he is in a body and she is not presents this unlikely couple with their first challenge. But as the lovers struggle to find a way to be together, they begin to discover the secrets of their former lives and of the young people they come to possess.
Review:
A Certain Slant of Light has an original start and a interesting way of how the characters becomes tied together.The description of the scenes are very realistic, and it is a highlight to an uneventful plot.
A Certain Slant of Light is one of those books who have intriguing characters with a possibility of an interesting story. However, there seems to be a lack of soul in the book; the plot is very dry. Helen's first problem is looking for a body to posses so that she can be with the boy, James. It has a good set up, but the resolution is a disappointment because Helen simply finds a teenage girl, Jenny's, body at the mall and molds into her. There is no big action scene, or any big mystery. The only reason I made it so far into the book is because I have the second book, otherwise I would have stopped around the first quarter of the book.
The one thing that Laura Whitcomb does do right, is the imagery for the paragraph that "Billy" (James) has to right for English class.
The library smells like old books -a thousand leather doorways into other worlds. I hear silence, like the mind of God. I feel a presence in the empty chair beside me. The librarian watches me suspiciously. But the library is a sacred place, and I sit with the patron saint of readers. Pulsing goddess light moves through me for one moment like a glimpse of eternity instantly forgotten. She is gone. I smell mold, I hear the clock ticking, I see an empty chair. Ask me now and I'll say this is just a place where you can't play music or eat. She's gone. The library sucks.It was interesting to see how James and Helen managed to change Billy's horrible attempt at a passage into something so magnificent.
Perhaps, I'll try and come back to this book so that I can read the second book. But, in the mean time, I think I just have to put this series away and start a new story.
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