Review: An incredible journey!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 2, 2011
Amarylla has a good idea that her time as a little girl has come to an end when she sends most of the things that her mother packed for her back home.  She doesn't have any idea what's ahead as she journeys with her father to find the man who may be able to turn the electricity back on, but she knows it won't include fancy dresses and operas.  She also doesn't know that along the way, she'll see firsthand the cruelty and destruction the aliens are capable of when threatened, or that she'll learn to defend herself as well as any of her father's guards, or that sometimes, love can develop even under the harshest conditions.Lightning of Her Own was a wonderful surprise.  I never would have thought that a novel about a cross country trip in a post-alien invasion world would keep me riveted, but it did.  The depth of emotion shown by each of the characters as they faced trial after trial of both their fortitude and their physical needs was exceptionally well written.  The growth of Amarylla, in particular, was portrayed in in such a way that you are torn between being frightened of who she will become and proud of whom she may come to be.Levi Montgomery has created a world that takes away some of the things that most of us, especially in the United States, consider basic life essentials - electricity, automobiles, and the freedom to travel unhampered and safely from state to state.  To think that society could fall apart so easily and quickly when these are lost is frightening.  Yet, also, believable.  Lightning of Her Own takes the reader on a dangerous journey; one that will leave you thankful that our world is still intact.  I thank the author for sharing a review copy with me and I'm excited to read part two of the trilogy.  I give this book five stars.