Darkness Becomes Her: A Book Review

March 2, 2017

 

 

When a giant hurricane strikes America, the country is left distraught.  There was one place where it hit the most, New Orleans. After the hurricane, it was never the same; the whole place was completely abandoned. But some stubborn people stayed behind, and eventually some rich family bought it out and it basically became like it's own country; they renamed it New 2. Darkness Becomes Her is a book about an orphan named Ari.

 

Ari has never been like everyone else with her freakishly silver hair and weird eyes. She's tried to dye her hair to a normal color once but the next day it mysteriously turned back to silver. Ari has never learned much about her past since she was abandoned by her mother at a young age. She bounced back in forth into new foster homes until she finally found a family who wanted to keep her. They've taught many things varying from how to ride the joystick of a car to how to disable a gun from someone's hands. Ari’s adoptive parents give her the freedom to seek out her birth mother. When she finds herself in a mental hospital--having just learned that her mother had killed herself--everything goes downhill from there. When Ari left the hospital she had received a box full of her late mother's things, and within that box there was a note addressed to her, it told her to hide and run that she is in grave danger. She didn't believe the note and decided to leave the hotel she was staying since she got everything she needed. But right when she got to her car a mysterious strong man attacked her and almost killed her. Luckily she had a gun hidden in the storage compartment in her that her parents gave her for protection. After shooting him she quickly left everything behind other than her backpack and hitched a ride into New 2. After going into New 2, she sees that everyone in there is just like her and little does she know, in New 2, lies secrets of her past.

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Darkness Becomes Her Cover Art

 

                     

Darkness Becomes Her is a very well written book full with page turning events that leave you wanting to read more. This book perfectly combines the world of fantasies with Greek mythology in a way you can never imagine it ever being. It’s not like your typical Twilight book, the story plot is way braver and broader than it. You’ll instantly fall in love with each character you meet, never wanting to let them go.

 

Despite all that there are bad things in it also. The book's love interest moves in too fast of a pace. They meet each other and already in a couple of hours their making out in the back of a booth in a diner. This isn't the only part that is fast paced, it's the whole entire book moves quickly. The author doesn't take enough time to explain that much in detail in what's happening. I believe if the author rearranged the events a bit better and expanded the book a bit it would've turned out 100 times better than it was. This book had very good potential to be amazing but just didn't take the right steps to doing so. I believe the story's plot is amazing and incredibly creative, but just not very well written.