{"id":92,"date":"2012-06-04T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=92"},"modified":"2013-03-22T11:31:26","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T16:31:26","slug":"arise-by-tara-hudson-fiction-spirits-prowling-new-orleans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=92","title":{"rendered":"Arise, by Tara Hudson (fiction) – spirits prowling New Orleans"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It’s getting worse for the young couple,
\nJoshua looks like a loner at school because he’d rather talk to her<\/a>, and no one else can see mostly-dead Amelia.<\/p>\n

And when they kiss, Amelia vanishes spontaneously<\/a>, reappearing elsewhere with no control over her location.<\/p>\n

A trip out of town for the holidays doesn’t sound half-bad, even if they might encounter Joshua’s grandmother Ruth who’s a Seer dedicated to eliminating all ghosts<\/a> like Amelia.<\/p>\n

Happy Book Birthday tomorrow (June 5th, 2012) to Arise<\/i>!\u00a0 You’ll enjoy this spooky adventure even more if you read Hereafter<\/i>\u00a0 first to learn how Amelia and Joshua met (my no-spoiler recommendation here<\/a>), so grab it at your local library<\/a> or independent bookstore<\/a>, then head for the French Quarter with Arise<\/i>.
\n**kmm<\/b><\/p>\n

Book info<\/b>: Arise (Hereafter series, 2) \/ Tara Hudson. Harper Teen, 2012. [author’s website<\/a>] [publisher site<\/a>] [book trailer<\/a>] \u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

My Recommendation<\/b>:Amelia longs to kiss Joshua, but the spirit-girl just poofs away when she touches the human boy, rematerializing somewhere else. Perhaps his Seer relatives in New Orleans have an answer to their dilemma, or perhaps the couple is walking into a sinister trap.Getting away from the evil beings clustered near the High Bridge should be holiday enough, but it\u2019s a long, awkward trip from Oklahoma to the Crescent City. Josh\u2019s sister Jillian can sense Amelia in the car, and their parents get them lost more than once. Dozing off, Amelia is brought into the spirit world, seeing her father at last! He\u2019d died shortly after she did, but she hadn\u2019t been able to locate his spirit until now \u2013 and he brings her a chilling warning about rising rivers.<\/p>\n

Entering the Mayhew family\u2019s ancestral home is like walking into a supernatural force field, as all the relatives gathered there for Christmas are Seers attuned to the spirit world. The teen cousins can see Amelia\u2019s ghost-form and include the newcomers in their mysterious winter-break plans.<\/p>\n

Amelia encounters ghosts wandering around the French Quarter tourist areas who warn her of dark demons gathering nearby, all invisible to the living. Gabrielle is another thing entirely, a spirit-girl they meet at a Voodoo shop, one ghost who\u2019s found a way to stay with the living and might be able to help Amelia do the same. For every time that Amelia vanishes and reappears, yet another piece of her ghostly form is lost\u2026<\/p>\n

Is it coincidence that the dark forces are rising just when the Seers of the Mayhew clan are all in one place?<\/p>\n

Can Gaby\u2019s midnight ceremony in the graveyard anchor Amelia in the world of the living?<\/p>\n

Or should she stick with her plan to save Joshua and his family from the deepest evils by disappearing from his life forever?<\/p>\n

This sequel to Hereafter <\/i>\u00a0travels from countryside to city, from known dangers to unforeseen perils, from the hope of being together for a lifetime to the agony of potentially being apart forever \u2013 ghosts and Seers alike have little time to discover their allies and enemies.\u00a0 (One of 5,000 books recommended on www.abookandahug.com<\/a>) Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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