Most fifteen year old girls are trying to figure out who they are; I’m trying to stay alive long enough to figure out what.
I’ve always been on the run. From my guilt about the things I couldn’t change, and from the voice in my head that won’t let me be normal. But yesterday Tommy and I were in a car accident on the way home from school. When I woke up, Tommy was gone, and so was the world I grew up in. Now I’m running less in a metaphorical way, and more in a “pick up the pace if you don’t want to die” way. Why? Because my eyes are blue, and I’m lost in a fantasy world where that means I’m different. It means I might not be human. It means I should already be extinct, and someone called “The Regent” is determined to make me that way.
I need to find the way home, and before I do that, I need to find Tommy. He’s only in this mess because of me. I can’t do it on my own, but it’s hard to know who to trust when everyone keeps trying to kill me.
I’ve always been on the run. From my guilt about the things I couldn’t change, and from the voice in my head that won’t let me be normal. But yesterday Tommy and I were in a car accident on the way home from school. When I woke up, Tommy was gone, and so was the world I grew up in. Now I’m running less in a metaphorical way, and more in a “pick up the pace if you don’t want to die” way. Why? Because my eyes are blue, and I’m lost in a fantasy world where that means I’m different. It means I might not be human. It means I should already be extinct, and someone called “The Regent” is determined to make me that way.
I need to find the way home, and before I do that, I need to find Tommy. He’s only in this mess because of me. I can’t do it on my own, but it’s hard to know who to trust when everyone keeps trying to kill me.
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My Review
In Between the Layers,
readers are dropped into a new world with our heroine who is forced to be a
symbol of hope and of restoration.
This world is absolutely terrifying. Slavery is still in existence. Magic is filled to the brim based on the eye
color of a person. That idea alone is
just brilliant and so interesting that I want to know as much as I can about
the makings of this world. I want to
know all of the history, how this world came to be. It’s a perfectly thought out, complex world. And the way that SaraJean Panek writes it is
perfection. I could feel and taste all
the dust that I imagined was just swirling through the towns. Everything was described in so much detail
that I could see how everything was laid out.
It was magical.
As soon as I started Between
the Layers I knew that I was going to be in for a wild ride. When our main character, Sera, starts talking
to the voice in her head, Reeky, and gets a response back. I just thought, ‘Oh snap, here we go’. In the best way possible, mind you. Totally a good thing.
But just everything that is wrapped up in this world and how
Sera got there was so awesome and mind boggling and frustrating. And the fact that there is a lost princess,
possible reincarnation, vampire like creatures that can reproduce and create
terrifying things called ‘Toddlers’. I
shiver just thinking about it.
As characters go, I really did like Sera. I enjoyed that she acted her age, 15, which
is both good and bad. Good because not
many characters who are young actually act young. For some reason they are always wise beyond
their years and incredibly smart. It was
a nice change of pace and really realistic.
But, it was also bad because she’s a naïve 15 year old brat with anger
issues. She did get on my nerves
sometimes and I really did want to strangle her but I also sympathized with
her. Getting thrown into a world, not
knowing how you managed to get there is probably unsettling. I’m assuming.
So, she gets a free pass.
Trage, I have to say, was definitely book boyfriend
material. He was swoon worthy, but also
flawed and I loved that. He wasn’t
perfect. He fought for what he believed
in and wasn’t afraid to voice his opinions.
I just wish we knew a little bit more about him.
The secondary characters great as well. Even though we don’t know much about them, I feel
like they were well thought out and had individual personalities that could be
expanded on in future books. My favorite
definitely had to be Lynx, a weird tiger humanoid thing. He was just spectacular.
All in all, a great intro to this new magically intriguing
world and I can’t wait to see what Panek has up her sleeve for the next
book(s)!
4 out of 5 hearts!
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