Author: Laura Whitcomb
Title: "The lights slope"
Number of pages: 231
book "The lights slope" is the debut novel by Laura Whitcomb. It's hard to unequivocally classifications set out in its history. A bit of the fantastic elements in it, reflections on life after death, to the ordinary problems of adolescents, finally, romance thread, the great love between two key heroes.
From the beginning it is known that this was a rather unusual subject, the matter which, for the average person is imperceptible. Helen, the main character in the book identify itself as "Light." Helen is a spirit, but spirit, which needs a guardian, the host. You could say that it is a kind of guardian angel for a person with whom he resides. Accompanied by his host for as long as it does not depart from this world. In one case, even the main source of inspiration for his guardian, who is trying to write book. Helen has no body, but that does not mean that he is completely devoid of feelings. On the contrary, he longs for, that someone saw it, to feel her presence. In the end she manages to make eye contact with one of his students the host. It turns out that the boy is, rather, was "Light." However, he managed to find the body, in which he could join and take life a sense of its owner. Since that time, the main objective in itself attracted two characters to find a body to Helen that she did stay in the world of the living, and most importantly, to be able to feel James. Finally, Helen is the body, which can walk. As it turns out, this is not the beginning at all in common, happy life. Before Helen and James a lot of adventures, and not a few problems. For as long as you pretend to be someone who is not, to live in the body, which belongs to someone else?
book reads easily and quickly. But it is not riveting reading, too much in it unrealistic situations and banal events. Not impressed me the language which is used the author. I have a feeling that if the sentences were not so simple and the vocabulary a little richer, the atmosphere and the atmosphere it has sought to create, much more to me spoke. And yes, I read and I put on the shelf, it was gone. The book definitely for the younger group readership, at least I have such feelings. From what I gather, however, I noticed the same positive feedback, so I do not know why, but I unfortunately do not enthused.
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