title: Bleeding Violet
Row: Portero # 1
author: Dia Reeves
Genre: Young Adult Literature (14 years)
Publisher: Treehouse (January 2011)
ISBN: 978 -3-8339-3845-0
Hardcover, 381 pages
Price: 14,99 €
Sample
After the death of her father, the 16-year-old Hanna hitchhikes in the Texas town Portero. She wants her mother that she does not know. But a warm welcome, it is not that awaits them, and the town is not as tranquil and harmless as it first seems - here do not just hear voices Hanna! And then the attractive Wyatt and eerie events even her wacky world upside down ...
the author:
Dia Reeves is a librarian and lives in Dallas, Texas. Their own Famiiengeschichte has not inspired to write insignificant. "Bleeding Violet" is her first novel.
I had no ax more, but I had built-in tools - my hands with their wonderful mobile thumb, which is perfectly suitable to all to grip and tear, which pulsated. Deep down, the Queen awoke in me again the childish vandalism. The bodies of the queen were a wonderful replacement for the Lego space station or the Barbie Dream House. (Page 166)
Review:
The 16-year-old Hanna Järvinen is manic-depressive. Since the death of her father, she lives with her aunt Ulla, they will be admitted to a psychiatric ward. But as Hanna does not cooperate. She proposes her aunt a rolling pin over the head and fled to her mother Rosalee, who lives in the small town in Texas and Portero has left the family shortly after Hanna's birth. But this is less than enthusiastic when her daughter is coming, because Portero is anything but a sleepy little town. And Hannah has her own problems. For since the death of her father, he appears as a ghost and talks to her and if they do not take their prescribed medicines, so many things easily get out of control.
Rosalee gives her daughter a period of two weeks to acclimatize and sincerely hopes that Hanna decides to return to Ulla. But Hanna does not think of it. They quickly became friends with Wyatt, a member of the Mortgage Maine. Mort Maine are the hunters, the various emerging demons that give access through invisible doors, which are distributed throughout Portero, detect and kill.
Hanna wants to impress her mother to stay with her so she can joins Wyatt and Mort Maines. But make not only the demons Hanna problems, even Rosalee seems not to be who it claims to ...
to "Bleeding Violet" come to mind right away two key words: absurd and bizarre. One could describe the book as a kind of Alice in Wonderland on drugs, for what Dia Reeves written here is unparalleled. Hanna is a very interesting character as a protagonist, because of their manic-depressive illness, the reader often do not know whether the things she describes really happened or is it all happening just in their head.
Yet for all the absurdity of occurring, the typical teenage problems are not forgotten: Hanna's in love with Wyatt and the very complicated mother-daughter relationship between Hanna and Rosalee. It is difficult to classify the genre of this book: It is classified as a youth book because the protagonists are teenagers, but by many (quite bloody and disgusting described) fighting against demons, it also could be classified in the horror or splatter.
Dia Reeves is "Bleeding Violet" an extraordinary book succeeded, I would recommend interested readers. However, if you do with a mixture of the absurd and can begin merry carnage should better stay away from this novel, because they have to adjust to Hannah's definitely crazy world. I myself have enjoyed the trip to Portero well and I am more on Dia Reeves' next book is cocked. This is called "Slice of Cherry", is the beginning of January in the published and original plays again in the strange city Portero, this time the protagonists kit and Fancy Cordelle, the daughters of the legendary Bonesaw Killers. " I guess this book will be another very interesting ...
For the design of the book: A very good cover! The main attention was paid to the colors purple and purple, very fitting to the book, as colors quite a large role in the history of play.
Rating: 4 out of 5 points
left, the German cover, right on the cover of Publisher Simon Pulse: Although the cover was taken at the German book almost 1:1, but I like the original more. The colors are a little stronger, and the fonts of book title and author names are chosen in my opinion better. Which cover do you like better, then?
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