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Shattered Mirror
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Shattered Mirror
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Sarah Vida is a witch and a vampire hunter — and a loner. Christopher Ravena is a vampire trying to pass as a normal high school student who wants to know Sarah better. Drawn to him despite her better judgment, Sarah’s forced to admit that there’s room for gray in her otherwise black-and-white world of good versus evil — until she meets Nikolas, Christopher’s twin and one of the most hunted vampires in history.
Sarah Vida is a witch and a vampire hunter — and a loner. Christopher Ravena is a vampire trying to pass as a normal high school student who wants to know Sarah better. Drawn to him despite her better judgment, Sarah’s forced to admit that there’s room for gray in her otherwise black-and-white world of good versus evil — until she meets Nikolas, Christopher’s twin and one of the most hunted vampires in history.
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  • ATOS:
    5.9
  • Lexile:
    790
  • Interest Level:
    MG+
  • Text Difficulty:
    3 - 4


Excerpts-
  • From the book SARAH VIDA SHIVERED. The aura of vampires seeping from the house in front of her was nearly overwhelming. She drove around the block once, then stopped her car a couple of yards away from the white Volvo she had been following. Her sapphire Jaguar was flashy, and she hadn’t had time to change the plates.
    She was lucky she had been planning on crashing a different party, or she would never have been ready for this one. She had come across the white Volvo’s owner at a gas station and had tailed her here.
    She cut the motor and ran her fingers through her long blond hair, which was windblown by the drive in the convertible. Flashing a killer smile at no one, she checked her appearance in the rearview mirror. The girl in the glass appeared attractive, wild and carefree. The core of stone was not visible in her reflection.
    As she stood, Sarah smoothed down her blue tank top and cream jeans and automatically checked to make sure her knives were in place—one in a spine sheath on her back and one tucked into each calf-high boot. Only then did she approach the house.
    With blinds and shades pulled, the house appeared empty from the outside, but the illusion was quickly shattered. Before she even had a chance to knock, someone pulled open the door.
    Leech, Sarah thought, disgusted, as she flashed a smile as practiced as the one she had given her rearview mirror at the vampire who had opened the door.
    Whoa. Her smile did not waver, even though the vampiric aura in the house hit her like a sledgehammer to her gut. Her skin tingled at the sense of power, the feeling as unpleasant as sandpaper scraping across raw skin.
    Unpleasant feeling or no, she began to mingle, looking always for the prey she was risking her neck to find—Nikolas.
    Nikolas was one of the most infamous of his kind, a vampire who had hunted blatantly since the 1800s. His first known prey had been a young mother named Elisabeth Vida. Elisabeth had been a witch, a vampire hunter, and incidentally, Sarah’s ancestor. Her family had been hunting Nikolas ever since—without success.
    Nikolas was clever—he had to be to have eluded hunters from the most powerful family of witches for so long. But he was also vain, and that would be his downfall. Every one of his victims wore his marks, decorations cut into their arms with the blade of his knife. Nikolas allowed some of his victims to live, but he twisted their minds to make them sickeningly loyal to him. Hunters had caught more than one of those warped humans, but they each professed to choose death before they would betray the vampire.
    One of them, however, had made a mistake. A flat tire on the way to this bash had left her fuming at a gas station off Route 95, and she had been too preoccupied to cover the scars on her arms. The attendant, a member of the hunters’ complex system of informants, had called Sarah; she had followed the girl’s white Volvo here.
    Taking a breath to focus her senses, Sarah searched the room with all six of them. Human scents mingled with the overpowering aura of vampires. Sarah felt pity and a slight disgust for the living who flitted among the vampires like flies clinging to dead flesh. Though Sarah did see one human boy leaving just after she came in, most of these humans would stay, out of either ignorance or perverted loyalty.
    She didn’t like being inside this group without backup, but the short drive between the gas station and this house had only allowed for a few cell-phone calls, which had reached only busy signals and answering machines. She couldn’t risk making a serious kill, outnumbered as she was, but if she...
About the Author-
  • Amelia Atwater-Rhodes wrote her first novel, In the Forests of the Night, when she was 13. Demon in My View was written two years later.
Reviews-
  • Publisher's Weekly

    Starred review from July 28, 2003

    In this third installment in the series that began with In the Forests of the Night, teen witch (and vampire killer) Sarah Vida gets more than she bargained for when she befriends vampire siblings. "Fans of the goth writer will likely find plenty to feast on here," wrote PW. Ages 12-up.

  • School Library Journal

    September 1, 2001
    Gr 8 Up-Fans of vampire fiction will really sink their teeth into this one. A fifth-generation witch who is a vampire hunter finds herself challenging everything she's been brought up to respect and defend when she meets two charming vampires posing as high school students. Instantly attracted to the male, Sarah Vida finds it harder and harder to carry out the duties she and her family have sworn to do. When it's revealed that Christopher is really Kristopher, twin brother of one of the most hunted vampires since the 1800s, Sarah's loyalties are even further divided. Though the ending isn't necessarily a big surprise, readers will be racing to reach it as they devour this compelling tale. Atwater-Rhodes does another fine job of building a suspenseful mood and sustaining it throughout. Characters are likable-both the heroic hunters and the beguiling hunted. The portrayal of a fantastic subculture that lies just beneath the surface of normal suburban teen culture is lurid in its attention to each tempting detail. By the end, one feels as torn as Sarah in deciding which life to choose. Readers will be swept away by the seductive world of good and evil and find themselves lusting for just a few more chapters.-Elaine Baran Black, Gwinnett County Public Library, Lawrenceville, GA

    Copyright 2001 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

  • Booklist

    September 1, 2001
    Gr. 6-10. Teens who prefer their vampire fiction unencumbered by complex emotion or logical plotting will feed greedily on teenage Atwater-Rhodes' third novel, a bloody, action-packed thriller, replete with teenage angst. Vampire hunter Sarah Tigress Vida moves to a new high school, only to find two vampires in her class--one of whom, Christopher, starts sending her roses and poems. Against her better judgment, she becomes involved with Christopher and also with his twin brother, Nikolas, a powerful, clever vampire who prefers turning his prey into "blood bonded" slaves rather than corpses. Picking her way through a small town positively strewn with supernatural creatures, Sarah survives several encounters with Nikolas on her way to the shocking discovery that vampires are as capable as mortals of love and loyalty. Next to Annette Curtis Klause's " Blood and Chocolate" (1997), this "sucks," but Atwater-Rhodes owns a readable prose style and a vivid imagination; polish will come with practice. Fans of TV's Buffy and Angel will clamor for more.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2001, American Library Association.)

  • Publisher's Weekly

    September 24, 2001
    In this third installment in the series that began with In the Forests of the Night, Atwater-Rhodes focuses on teen witch (and vampire killer) Sarah Vida, who "never asked for anything more complex than the simple good and evil definitions she had been raised on" but gets more than she bargained for when she befriends vampire siblings Nissa and Christopher. This is trouble: it's harder to kill when you know your prey, and her mother—the most infamous witch of all—will disown her if she finds out about the friendship. Her conflict intensifies when she discovers that Christopher's twin is Nikolas, the same vampire who long ago murdered a Vida witch. Atwater-Rhodes chooses an interesting theme (no one is purely good or evil), and she builds some creative elements around it. SingleEarth, an organization of all creatures, for instance, includes vampires and witches who work together for peace. Her description of Nikolas, whose home and clothing are completely black and white, plays into this well, and provides for some striking visual images. Some of her writing, though, as in Sarah's final faceoff with Nikolas and Christopher, is over the top ("I want it as much as humans want to breathe, but I have control," Christopher says of Sarah's blood). Still, fans of the teen goth writer will likely find plenty to feast on here. Ages 12-up.

  • The Horn Book

    January 1, 2002
    Witches from the Vida family hunt vampires--they have laws against befriending them. But Sarah Vida cant turn away from Christopher, a vampire she meets at school, and that friendship makes her first a victim of Christophers vampire twin brother, then a vampire convert herself. Even rampant melodrama and a conveniently malleable sense of honor dont sap this energetic novel of its fun.

    (Copyright 2002 by The Horn Book, Incorporated, Boston. All rights reserved.)

  • Publishers Weekly "Fans of the teen goth writer will likely find plenty to feast on here."
  • School Library Journal "Readers will be racing to reach [the end] as they devour this compelling tale. Atwater-Rhodes does another fine job of building a suspenseful mood and sustaining it throughout."
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