Shattered Blue (The Light Trilogy, 1)
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Shattered Blue (The Light Trilogy, 1)

Paperback – September 15, 2015

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Price
$9.99
Format
Paperback
Pages
336
Publisher
Skyscape
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-1503949973
Dimensions
5.5 x 1 x 8.25 inches
Weight
11.8 ounces

Description

Award-Winning Finalist in the "Fiction: Fantasy" category of the 2016 International Book Awards2016 Next Generation Indie Book Awards -Finalist in the Young Adult CategorySilver medalist in the 2016 IPPY Awards2015 USA Book Award Finalist in Best New Fiction2015 USA Book Award Finalist in Best Fantasy"9 Early Autumn YA Books to Fall For" - Buzzfeed "Back to School Book Guide for the Young Adult" - San Francisco Book Review "Best Back to School Reads for Teens of 2015" - Culturalist "The fae tale is not your average fairy tale" - Hypable "I guarantee you'll be hooked and anxiously awaiting the next book in the series" - USA Today Award-Winning Finalist in the “Fiction: Fantasy” category of the International Book AwardsNext Generation Indie Book Awards -Finalist in the Young Adult CategorySilver medalist in the IPPY AwardsUSA Book Award Finalist in Best New FictionUSA Book Award Finalist in Best Fantasy“9 Early Autumn YA Books to Fall For” ― Buzzfeed “Back to School Book Guide for the Young Adult” ― San Francisco Book Review “Best Back to School Reads for Teens” ― Culturalist “The fae tale is not your average fairy tale” ― Hypable “I guarantee you’ll be hooked and anxiously awaiting the next book in the series” ― USA Today Lauren Horowitz―or “Bird” as she is often known―is a screenwriter and novelist lucky enough to call both Los Angeles and Kauai home. Bird also counts herself lucky that writing exists as a profession―how else could she share the crazy, fantastic worlds in her head? Bird studied writing at Harvard University with novelist Jamaica Kincaid, where she won several prizes including the Edward Eager Memorial Prize for fiction. She’s a proud member of the Writers Guild of America. You can follow Bird on Twitter (@birdaileen) and Instagram (@birdaileen) for trilogy updates.

Features & Highlights

  • For Noa and Callum, being together is dangerous, even deadly. From the start, sixteen-year-old Noa senses that the mysterious transfer student to her Monterey boarding school is
  • different
  • . Callum unnerves and intrigues her, and even as she struggles through family tragedy, she’s irresistibly drawn to him. Soon they are bound by his deepest secret: Callum is Fae, banished from another world after a loss hauntingly similar to her own.
  • But in Noa’s world, Callum needs a special human energy, Light, to survive; his body steals it through touch―or a kiss. And Callum’s not the only Fae on the hunt. When Callum is taken, Noa must decide: Will she sacrifice everything to save him? Even if it means learning their love may not be what she thought?

Customer Reviews

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Most Helpful Reviews

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I'm glad I went into this blind

The cover instantly drew me in and I've never read anything about Fae so I wasn't sure what to expect. I'm glad I went into this blind, it really left me open to any possibility of what may happen. I love books with alternating POV and it ending with Judah's really made it come full circle. I thought I was going to be so invested in Callum and Noa, then the real pieces of Judah started showing and I found myself fighting internally between which brother would be better for her. Sasha was a little mystery from the beginning, she encompassed a young child while also seeming to understand so much more. I will definitely be waiting impatiently for the next installment.
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One of My Favorite Reads of 2015!

I first became aware of Shattered Blue through Maren's review. She loved it so much and the book looked so intriguing, that I had to pick it up! And let me tell you, I LOVED IT.

I loved this book so much, I don't even know where to begin! I loved Noa, Callum, and Judah!

The story is narrated by Noa, our heroine, whose family recently suffered the tragic loss of the oldest sister, Isla. While Noa is trying to cope with that loss, she becomes intrigued and drawn to the new transfer student, Callum, who, she learns, also suffered a similarly haunting loss. What I loved about Callum was that you were never sure if you could quite trust him. Was he the hero of the story? Or was he something else? The same went for Judah; you started out wanting to think the worst of him, but as the story went on, his character becomes more and more complex. I honestly cannot say who I love more of the two!

"Unremarkable moments were the ones you missed most–the ones you didn’t realize were precious at the time, and so later could not remember."

- Lauren Bird Horowitz, Shattered Blue (pg. 194)

The writing is simply beautiful in this book; I'm not big into poetry, but the poetry that Noa writes are simply beautiful! One of my favorites was "Lost Girls".

There were so many twists in this book, and things I never saw coming, that it quickly became one of my favorite reads of this year. AND THAT CLIFFHANGER. SO. CRUEL. I need book two RIGHT. NOW.
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Such a great read! The story line is really interesting and ...

Such a great read! The story line is really interesting and original and I love the use of poetry throughout the novel. Can't wait to finish the trilogy, need the second now!
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Narrative intelligence, clever dialogue, pace and a great story

Any insatiable reader will recognize a fundamental piece of herself in Noa, our heroine, a brave poet who will discover the beautiful warrior within herself as a universe full of magic unfolds before her eyes. I think that avid readers, readers who fell in love with books at a very young age and who never stopped loving or reading them (so many seem to stop reading), readers who feel more in common with characters than with other people, readers who are often private, reserved (or at least selectively or even secretly reserved), readers trained by hours of sojourning in the minds of others to think deeply and with consequence, cannot help but feel a kinship with other avid readers. I have no doubt that Horowitz is a keen and devoted reader. She writes like (and for) someone who loves to read, with narrative intelligence, clever dialogue, pace, and a great story.

Noa is a wonderfully written character, nuanced with flecks of light and dark. Anyone who has a small child to love will delight in reading about her relationship with her younger sister, and what tale of coming into your magical powers is complete without a wrenching love story? She has a solid supporting cast, too, with honorable mention going to her best friend, an incredibly vivid character drawn in (relatively few!) quick, bold strokes. And the boys...the boys are fun.

For those YA lovers who crave fresh fantasy, this world is something new. Horowitz has done an excellent job of implying a rich, elaborate new world of fae and light without tiring us with exposition. She prompts us to wonder and wonder, planting mysteries, and one is immediately relieved to know this is just book one of three in the trilogy, and there is much more to come.
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Its great!

Such a great book. I would definitely recommend this to everyone I know! 10/10
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Beautiful YA tale with mystery, romance, & heart

Loved this book! Beautifully written and keeps your attention from the first page to the last. Definitely recommend!
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Fans of Harry Potter and Twilight - you should read this book.

In this age of the Internet, where short-form is king, I don't often sit down and read fiction. However this book was mesmerizing. Once I was drawn into Noa's world, I was hooked. The author creates a marvelous universe, in the vein of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter. It is also very well written - Horowitz has a way with words and her love for writing shines through.
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Angst and cliches

Too much of everything – that’s the shortest way I can describe this book. Starting from a wafer thin plot that reveled in every cliche out of, I don’t know, every YA book before, and so much angst and melodrama, that I was rolling my eyes at every twist. Noa and Callum have this instant connection, due to dead sisters, and he becomes all I-don’t-deserve-you about it in the most melodramatic way. Sure, his touch is lethal, and he literally doesn’t deserve her, but backing out of a first date with that? Too much issues, man. Then he goes and gets a way to allow him to touch her – although we see no evidence of the loss of her Light. He is trapped here in this world, but no explanation about how he is living here. Like who pays the school tuition, dude? Oh, and Noa? For all I thought her to be the Strong Heroine when she calls him out on his s***, she goes and threatens to cut herself just to get him to confess. Like what?

Judah enters the story and it picks up, just a little. But oho, then there is that cliche brothers-love-triangle, which I am sick of since The Vampire Diaries (I left the show thanks to it) and then everything is going to hell, because there is a Hunter after Callum now. Basically the climax is a big mess, with a LOT of lies coming out. And as much as some things came out of the blue, the plot was pretty predictable. Even the true love thing – I somehow knew it was going there. The only things going for the book – the poetry (imagine me finding poetry better than prose) and the fae mythology (it is sad for the main plot when the flashback is way more interesting). The different Fae abilities were interesting, but not exactly ground-breaking. Too much romance and angst ruined this book for me.
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Incredibly poetic and had this whimsical atmosphere...

I received a copy of this from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This book was nothing like I've read before. No book can come even close to it. It's about faeries and humans and friendship and loss. The writing was incredibly poetic and had this whimsical atmosphere to it that gave me, as a reader, a new experience. The characters' dynamics, and how slowly they were uncovered, was thrilling to read and there was so much secrecy and mysteries that filled every page. I appreciated how the love story involved was simultaneously what drove the protagonist to fight and remained almost irrelevant throughout her journey. But what was the most interesting thing to me was the concept about fae and how unique the world of fae was. There was politics, special abilities, civil wars involved and I just enjoyed reading about them so much.
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Great characters, unpredictable story line kept me wanting more

I loved this book. The characters were very likeable and the love story was unpredictable and intense. The plot turns kept me guessing, and not wanting to put the book down. I read it in a weekend and am anxiously awaiting the next book. I'd highly recommend Shattered Blue for fans of YA trilogies like Mortal Instruments, Throne of Glass, and Twilight.
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