Review: Meridian

Meridian by Amber Kizer.


Summary from Goodreads.


Half-human, half-angel, Meridian Sozu has a dark responsibility.


Sixteen-year-old Meridian has been surrounded by death ever since she can remember. As a child, insects, mice, and salamanders would burrow into her bedclothes and die. At her elementary school, she was blamed for a classmate’s tragic accident. And on her sixteenth birthday, a car crashes in front of her family home—and Meridian’s body explodes in pain.

Before she can fully recover, Meridian is told that she’s a danger to her family and hustled off to her great-aunt’s house in Revelation, Colorado. It’s there that she learns that she is a Fenestra—the half-angel, half-human link between the living and the dead. But Meridian and her sworn protector and love, Tens, face great danger from the Aternocti, a band of dark forces who capture vulnerable souls on the brink of death and cause chaos.

Review

This book is awesome! It was recommended by a friend and so I ordered it and read it in one sitting.


Not only does Meridian have a super cool name, she's got a super cool ability too, even if it causes stomach ulcers and stunts her growth (seriously, it does). At first she seems a little too emo but Meridian's character grows on you and can I just say that Tens is super sexy? I loved him from the start! I want a Tens...


A good portion of the beginning is spent in utter confusion as to what exactly is wrong with Meridian but once it's all cleared up, the backstory is absolutely fascinating and well thought out. It's definitely original, you can't say it's cookie cutter in any sense. Except for maybe the romance but really, what hasn't been done by now?


But I digress.

I loved this book and can't wait to read the sequel, Wildcat Fireflies. With the overflow of books about zombies, ghosts and necromancers (don't get me wrong, I love those books too) these days, the Fenestra series focuses more on another aspect of death. Instead of the physical body, Meridian focuses on the essence of the person and that gives the story a sense of depth (or at least a different sense of depth) than many other books about death in young adult literature.


Meridian provides an interesting and very comforting view on death that isn't heavy-handed in its message (thank you!!). Despite the evildoers, death doesn't seem so scary after reading this book.


Check it out!


Received from interlibrary loan.