From the author of the acclaimed Archangel Academy vampire trilogy comes a stunning new series about a girl determined to defy her fate--and reclaim her future. . .
Something strange is going on with Dominy Robineau. All her friends in Weeping Water, Nebraska, have noticed--and it's way beyond teenage blues. As weeks pass, Dom grows consumed by anger, aggression, and violence, and she seems powerless to stop it. Then she turns sixteen, and things get really dangerous.
When her best friend is murdered, Dominy's father is compelled to reveal the truth behind the darkness that threatens to both overtake and empower her. Her boyfriend, Caleb, swears they'll find a way to change her destiny. But others are hiding secrets too, and gifts that are far more terrifying than hers. And even as she struggles to control her new abilities, Dom must contend with an enemy who wants her to use the beast within to destroy all those she loves, before she destroys herself. . .
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Michael Griffo is an award-winning writer and a graduate of New York University. He has studied at Playwrights Horizons and Gotham Writers Workshop, and has written several screenplays.
Gr 8 Up-This entry in the ever-growing body of paranormal YA novels adds little to the genre. In the prologue, readers learn that Dominy, on her 16th birthday, kills her best friend, Jess. The story then jumps back three months to the beginning of the mysterious changes in Dominy that led to this tragedy. Plot development is slow, and the characters do not grow over the course of the novel; what should be a page-turner is actually hard to slog through. The stilted writing has an excessive amount of description that doesn't add to the story, which is far too long. Dominy, who has just found out that she is a werewolf, is not the sympathetic protagonist she needs to be for the plot to work, and readers have no true sense that it's her transformation into a violent creature that is causing her lack of emotional control and personality issues. It's not just Dominy, though; all of the characters are two-dimensional. One of the most serious problems with the book is the portrayal of a Native American character, the woman who curses Dominy's dad and causes the teen's predicament. Better choices in this genre abound.-Sharon McKellar, Oakland Public Library, CAα(c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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