Source: Borrowed from Publisher/NetGalley for an honest review
Publication: February 28, 2014
Description:
Lucy Wright, sixteen and a paraplegic after a recent car accident that took her mother's life, lives in Queensland on a 10,000 acre farm with her father. When Lucy investigates strange lights over the creek at the bottom of the property, she discovers a mystery that links the lights to the science of cymatics and Scotland’s ancient Rosslyn Chapel.
But beyond Chapel is an even larger mystery. One that links the music the Chapel contains to Norway’s mysterious Hessdalen lights, and beyond that to Saturn and to the stars. Lucy’s discoveries catapult her into a parallel universe connected to our own by means of resonance and sound, where a newly emerging world trembles on the edge of disaster. As realities divide, her mission in this new world is revealed and she finds herself part of a love story that will span the galaxy.
Rating: 2 stars (Did Not Finish)
Review:
This was such a disappointing read because it started out so good. It was exciting and had me really interested in what was going on.
The story was about a 16 years old Australian girl Lucy Wright who had been in a tragic car accident that killed her mother and left her in a wheel chair. It left her feeling sort of disconnected and depressed which is understandable. But then something really strange started happening, she came into contact with glowing spheres of light and she had found a strange hexagon shape in the sand near the river where she saw the lights.
After doing some research on the strange shape in the sand, she found a website that was created by a 20 year old Scottish music student named Jonathan Barkley. The website provided details about cymatic and some of the strange things.
The two started exchanging information and research through e-mails and phone calls. I thought the research was really interesting in fact it had me doing a little research on what they were talking about such as the hexagonal storms on Saturn, Rosslyn Motet, Stave Angel and more.
In fact here is a couple of pictures of a hexagonal storm on Saturn, cool right.
(Photo source: http://www.space.com/18674-saturn-vortex-hexagon-storm-photos.html)
Anyway, after Lucy mysteriously disappeared (I won't say where she went, I don't want to spoil anything) and returned, the story seemed to lose focus. The next thing you know Lucy somehow has superpowers and can fly. Then the story was trying to work in a romance between Lucy and Jonathan, which I thought was creepy and weird since she's sixteen and he's twenty. And what was even weirder was the fact that her father wasn't angry or anything that his daughter had ran off with a older guy (this was the lie she gave to her father to explain her disappearance). There was also something not quite right about Danielle, a lady who liked Lucy's father. But I wasn't interested in finding out why Lucy didn't like her and what Danielle was really up to.
I think the most disappointing thing about this was I had instantly been drawn into the story because it was well written fast paced and was a original story, however it started to falter. This started out as a science fiction mystery but quickly turned into a same old run of the mill fantasy romance novel.
I initially liked Lucy, I thought she was dealing with a lot and her life had changed but she was trying her best. But after her disappearance and reappearance, she changed and not for the better. She was okay with constantly lying to and hiding things from her father. I didn't understand Jonathan's motivation with going along with Lucy's lies, he could have wound up getting arrested for taking off with a 16 year old (if the police believed that lie).
Overall, I felt like the story was trying to do too many things and the characters and the story were no longer interesting. I just couldn't finish reading this and unfortunately it was not for me. I gave it two stars because it had started out really good.
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