Review: Girl Who Battles For Self Worth Succeeds in Spades
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 6, 2013
If you are looking for a book that is dark but continually battles for the light - then you have found your book right here. Underworld is about a 19 year old girl who must go into the Underworld of the Dead to save her friends and mankind. She is Chosen and has the light inside her, but she must fight her own horrific past and get beyond what bad people have done to her to find the true light and love that exist inside her to succeed. As a heroine, she is strong and a great example for today's teens. Even though she has been though so much, she has to re-examine her past to find clues and keys to the goodness inside her and other people along the way. Every time it is a hard lesson to learn, but she is up to the challenge, even when faced with demons from the Underworld who threaten her friends and even her enemies from the world above. The ending was wild. Ms. Wooley must have either been through much in her life, or been around others who had, as the heroine is portrayed as having a life that would have ruined most people in every way. It gives me the shivers just thinking about it, and yet, goodness was found in each instance somewhere - hiding sometimes in plain sight. I have to give Ms. Wooley credit for being one of the most positive people I have ever read and conversed with in my life. The author gave me a gift of this novel for an unbiased review, and that is what I have written here. There is always something positive in everything. That is the message of her book. For a dark novel - that is quite a message to get through. I would have given it five stars, but for the spacing errors that cropped up in the novel rather frequently. The lesson that there is always something positive no matter what happens is one of the most important lessons to learn in life. You can always learn something - no matter what happens. Good job Ms. Wooley. I enjoyed your novel and believe that it carries an important message of hope and optimistic thinking which is badly needed at this time.