LaVana+Q4

I am currently reading Kiss by Ted Dekker and Erin Healy.




 * In one to two paragraphs, identify the title and author, summarize the setting, main characters, and major conflict in the novel**

For quarter four I read Kiss by Ted Dekker and Erin Healy. The main charactor is Shauna. She had gotten in a car accident on a bridge and had been in a coma for quite some time, when she awoke she couldnt remember the last 6 months of her life. In her hospital room were her boyfriend, wicked step mom, and her uncle. She found out that her brother/best friend was in the car too and had gotten severe brain damage. Shauna passes out every few days and she has flash backs. But the flash backs are not hers. They are Waynes, and the policemans. Main Charactor - Shauna Boyfriend - Wayne Brother - Rudy Stepmother - Patrice Dad - Landon Uncle - Trent Maid - Khai


 * What is so special about //THIS// book?**

This book is special because it is unlike any other book that I have read. It grabs you right from the beggining. Shauna is going through a hard time, and the author is really good at expressing this. Shaunas flash backs are in really high detail, makes you feel like you are there watching her spaz in pain and confusion. It is always full of suprises, like her family being her actualy enemies, her boyfriend actualy being the bad guy, and her uncle turning his back too. Example: (flash back of someone elses memory.) "Shauna shivered and felt her knees give way, and then it seemed the ground opened. She started to drop insitinctivly closed her eyes, but when she continued to fall, she found the will to open them. She fell through a vertical black tunnel lined with images, three dimintional, nearly holographic. Random images, hundreds of images, of schools, sports, clubs, office spaces, poeple. She tried to focus on one or two and found the rate of her descent decrease. She reached out to touch one of the pictures and got an electric shock. Foreign locatinsa desert, a forestwere in some of the pictures. She saw her family. She saw herself. She saw a hospital. Water. She saw her car and reached out for the images as if she could grab it and stop her fall completly. Her hands burned when she plunged them into the grainy image. She kept falling, and then the bottom of the tunnel opened like the platform of a dunk tank and dropped her into a well of freezing water. her breath caught in her throat and her body went numb. The cold rose to her waist. She opened her eyes and saw herself coughing in the water of a black river, slapping the surface as if it might hold her up. Was this her own memory? She had some close enough to dying then, perhaps. No, it was the memory of someone watching her. Wayne. He had pulled her out. She saw herself call his name between gasps of frozen breath, and he reached for her. Gripping her shoulder with his lefrt hand. Shoved her under the water. Held her down. Held her. Down. Shauna could not be sure if the fear that penetrated her then was cast off of the memory or resident in the moment, in the truth of what she saw. Wayne Spade had tried to drown her. He had, in fact, tried to knife her. On his right hand, she saw his blue class ring; and in his right palm. a short knife with a pearl handle. He dropped the knife into the water behind him as if it were a scoop on a water wheel, and brought it up against the drag intil it hit flesh. Her flesh. He withdrew the blade and drove it in again. In some other world, Shauna felt a pointed ache in her ribs. The third time, he lifted the weapon out of the water, and the moonlight bounced off a broken tip. Sirens sounded, bouncing off the bank of the river. He swore, crammed the knife into his pocket, and bent over her, scooping her up under her armpits. She appeared to be unconscious. The water fell off her skin as her dragged her in, her heels scrapping over rocks and grit onto a shpre covered in dry winter scrub. He rolled her onto her back and began to administer CPR."

//**What's it really about?**//

//__Kiss__// is about a girl named Shauna. She supposedly gets in a car accident. She doesn't remember anything. Her father is running for President. Her stepmother is literally evil. Her brother Rudy was badly injured in the car accident, and now he is mentaly disabled. And Wayne. He is her "boyfriend" but he really ends up being the bad guy in the end..


 * //In the end, describe the overall experience of reading this novel. Was it a good use of your time? If so, why? If not, why not? Did you like it? If so, why? If not, why not? What age or interest group would find this novel worthwhile. What was good about the book? What was not-so-good?//**

I thought that this book was really really good. It kept me on my toes the whole time wondering who was going to die next after the journalist was killed, and it kept me wondering if Shauna was going to live. Yes it was a good use of my time because i enjoyed reading it. Yes, I did like it. Because it had suspence and the whole plot was twisted. My age or freshman or maybe juniors would find this book worthwhile. It depends on what kind of books they like reading. The best thing about the book was the twisted plot. The part that was not so good was at the begging because it is kind of slow.