In The Forests of the Night

Book: In The Forests of the Night


Author: Amelia Atwater-Rhodes


Rating: 5  / 5


Synopsis: By day, Risika sleeps in a shaded room in Concord Massachusetts. By night, she hunts the streets of New York City. She is used to being alone. But someone is following Risika. He has left her a black rose, the same sort of rose that sealed her fate three hundred years ago-Three hundred years ago Risika had a family -a brother and a father who loved her, Three hundred years ago she was human.
Now she is a vampire, a powerful one. And her past has come back to torment her.


About the author: Amelia Atwater-Rhodes grew up in Concord Massachusetts. Born in 1984, she wrote her first novel, In the forests of the night, praised as "remarkable" (Voice of Youth Advocates) and "mature and polished (Book list) when she was thirteen. Other books in the Den Of Shadows series are Demon in my View, Shattered Mirror, and Midnight Predator, all ALAYALSA Quick Picks for Young Adults. She has also published the five volume series The Kiesha'ra: Hawksong, a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year and a Voice of Youth Advocates. Best Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Selection; Snakecharm; Falcondance;Wolfcry; and Wyvernhail.



My review: Tiger! Tiger! Burning bright. In the forests of the night. What immortal hand or eye. Could frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skies. Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand dare seize the fire? And what shoulder, and what art. Could twist the sinews of thy heart? And when thy heart began to beat. What dread hand? And what dread feet? What the hammer? What the chain? In what furnace was thy brain? What the anvil? What dread grasp? Dare it's deadly terrors clasp? When the stars threw down their spears. And watered heaven with their tears. Did he's smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make their? Tiger! Tiger! Burning bright. In the forests of the night. What immortal hand or eye. Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
-William Blake

I would love yo be a vampire but to live for three hundred years what would I do with myself? In the first ten years I could probably visit all the places I wanted to see. Then what would I do with my life. I would go insane.
I like how Amelia put the story, to what is going on now and then have a chapter  about Risika's past. Or should I say Rachel.
If a black eyed boy had come to my door and given me a black rose I would have been awe struck and confused. Why would this boy give me a flower. I bet that's what Rachel was thinking when she got it. Who was this boy Aubrey and why did he give me a rose that had drawn my blood.
So Rachel was turned because her brother Alexander had done something to Ather. Alex could only save one person and he choose to try and save both. Alex had died for Rachel and Rachel was turned because of her brother doing something horrible to Ather.
What did the note say that was for Risika?
Waking up with no memory of who I am or anything about my life would suck. Yeah sure I would remember later on but I would stress over it every second until I got my memory back.
I would love to have tiger stripes in my hair that would be amazing. Risika is more powerful than Ather and just as powerful as Aubrey maybe even more.
I am hating Aubrey. He is evil hurting people when Risika asked him  not to. He is cruel and heartless. I hate him and hope Risika kills him. He deserves to die.
Risika has challenged Aubrey and she has won. She took his blood and is now stronger than him, she can also get into his mind mire easily now.
Alexander has been alive this whole time. Wow so didn't see that.

Book Idol: Risika

Book Crush: none


Other books by this author:
Hawksong
Snakecharm
Falcondance
Wolfcry
Wyvernhail
Demon in My View
Shattered Mirror
Midnight Predator
Persistence of Memory
Token of Darkness
All Just Glass
Poison Tree
Promises to Keep