Falling Under
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4.8 • 5 Ratings
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
IN HER DREAMS HE'S SEDUCTIVE, CHARMING AND UNDOUBTEBLY DANGEROUS . . .
Theia Alderson has always led a sheltered life, but when a devastatingly handsome boy appears at her school, she feels every urge she's ever denied burning through her at his slightest glance.
Theia does not understand why she dreamed of Haden Black before they met, by as the Haden of both the day and the night beckons her forward, Theia knows she cannot resist him – even when she discovers what he truly is; and even if the cost of that knowledge is her soul.
. . . IT ONLY TAKES A MOMENT TO FALL
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"e willowed past my window, turning his grotesque head towards me, his mouth open in a silent scream." Seventeen-year-old Theia Alderson's first confrontation with the otherness that will define her future is a burning man falling from the sky and disintegrating on her lawn. After that, the dreams begin, about a beautiful young man in a nightmare realm who cannot stay away from her, nor she from him. When he appears in the real world of her California high school as a student named Haden Black, their come hither/get lost dynamic becomes cloaked in ordinary adolescent behaviors, but they both know that much more is at stake. Hayes's first YA novel seasons its Romeo and Juliet theme of separated lovers with horror and languid eroticism. The simplicity of the basic romance plot occasionally struggles to live up to the beautifully wrought images from Theia's dreams, and some details the cross-dressing surfer psychic, for example sit oddly with the general tone. Overall, however, this is a satisfying story that hints at more promising dreams to come. Ages 12 up.
