Review: Mesmerizing!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 23, 2011
Megan is only days away from graduating high school. She is cramming for finals, and desperately trying to get her head out of the clouds so that she can pass her senior year. She longs to be an artist, but being an only child of professional parents, her future plans are still up for discussion. Spending her spare time getting lost in her paintings, or hanging with her best friend Tony, she's just your average teen girl, as she describes herself:I had never been very pretty. I was plain for a girl, I thought, with mousy brown hair and plain brown eyes. They weren't even a golden brown or an exotic almost-black. Just motor oil brown. My skin was too pale because I rarely ever went outside. Texas was always either too hot or too cold for my taste. Pale blue veins showed through at my temples. I had one slightly crooked tooth. Everyone said they couldn't tell, but it was always the first thing I noticed in photos of myself or when I looked into a mirror.***After a stress filled day, Megan makes her way to the park after sunset. In the dark, she vents her frustrations, only to find out that she isn't alone. A beautiful stranger has been watching her from the shadows, and she nervously makes her way home.Megan can't seem to shake the image of the stranger and desperately tries to recreate his image on canvas. Unable to paint his likeness, she sets out to look for her muse the next day, only to find out that her average life is about to get turn upside down.Haunt started out reading like a paranormal romance, but it slowly twists into horror story of sorts, and then back to paranormal. Personally, I love both genres, and I would recommend this to anyone in the same boat. I only found the end slightly anticlimactic, but it fit into the story well, and Amber left the reader anticipating a sequel.The author has a wonderful way of writing. She gives you little hints to keep you captivated and wanting more. Written in first person, the author will draw back, and drop in the character's commentary, as if Megan was sitting beside you telling you the story.I hope to see more from Amber Delaine.