Arizona (Beautiful Dead #2) by Eden Maguire

Paperback, 288 pages

Published October 15th 2009 by Hodder Children's Books

ISBN

0340988622 (ISBN13: 9780340988626)

edition language

English

original title

Arizona (Beautiful Dead, #2)

series

Beautiful Dead #2

 

There's been no sign of the Beautiful Dead for weeks. Darina achingly misses Phoenix all over again. But surely he will return with the rest of the Beautiful Dead as so much still remains unresolved. It's been ten months since Arizona drowned in Hartmann Lake. Suicide, it would seem. But something doesn't add up.
Drowning herself in a hidden - away lake does not sound like strong, confident, Arizona: Ellerton High School's high-maintenance drama queen. Darina needs to help Arizona the way she helped Jonas. But time is running out...

 

 My Review

I am very much enjoying this series of books. for its originality, and its mysterious essence that it seems to contain. For me the book just seems to hold many messages for its readers, in that it really makes you think about the attributes of life, and the consequences that come from our actions. After all we can be the nicest person on earth, but we can still die in unknown circumstances, where a bit of our memory is blanked so we never know what has happened. I like the fact that the novel represents that second chances are not always avalible and at hand, but that when they are, they are time limited and we should use it wisely in order to understand what has happened, and how we can make the correct changes.

The book is almost like a discovery of the self, where the characters have to go back over their past to figure out what has happened to them, and that whilst they are doing this they begin to understand what sort of person they were, and how they made others, around them feel. I love the drama that the book contains for it seems that there is always something happening and going on, which means that you never get bored, because there isn't a dull moment in the book. The thing between Darina and Logan though is starting to drive me a little around the bend, because although you don't want her to fall in love with someone else because she has Phoenix, you also want her to, because why should she spend a life alone. you get this feeling that at some point in the books it is going to happen.

However in this novel, it was Arizona's stuck up attitude that really grasped me and made me smile. It just seemed to have been written perfectly, in that although a person acts big headed and important, it does not mean that they have the perfect line. I just felt that the author really made the reader sit back and take a look at the aspects of her life, because she made the reader feel for her. By showing that her life was complicated, that she had a lot of things going on in the background, you realize what it is that people do in order to make themselves feel better and alive.

I loved the story and I look forward to reading the next two in the series for I feel there is much potential for them and that many young adults will love them. Im considering introducing them to my sister!!!

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