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I'm starting another discipline-season of writing poems!

Forewarned is forearmed, as they say, so my dear friends...consider yourself forearmed.

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I finally thought to get this out of the library, though I've been following carriejones  on LJ since she came to Conestoga several years ago--she's funny and charming.

And so is this book, though with a bit, too.

I'm sure I won't be the first to draw comparisons to Twilight, (not even the first to intelligently discuss why Need is superior) but some of the tropes shared by both really struck me as I was reading.

Zara gets sent to backwater Maine because her depression at home is worrying her mother. She is befriended by two fringe kids, one super-class-president type and the fringe kids' somewhat cooler loner friend who is hot. And whose eyes telegraph "danger".
But there's this creepy guy stalking but never getting very close, she has to drive herself because Granny's an EMT and there's snow on the ground, and people are really worried about a boy disappearing....

The more grounded complexity of this book really felt like the classic *bones* of a story that make Twilight fetching, but deal with so much more artfully. And it's a great YA book. BTW. In case you were wondering.

I really like the MC, with her interests and quirks, and the people surrounding her, and the way the paranormal elements offset and relate to each other in this world.

And now I'm going to go check out the sequel...