Apex Review Of Riser (Becca Smith)

Dec. 20, 2010 - PRLog -- Riser
Becca C. Smith
ISBN: 9781452889078
CreateSpace
Reviewed By Chelsea Perry

Official Apex Reviews Rating: 5 Stars


The year may be 2320, but one thing hasn’t changed: the unrelenting, tortuous hell of high school. For eighteen-year-old Chelsan Derée, the daily ritual of doom is made even worse by her vicious schoolmate Jill Forester – who specializes in making her life miserable – as well as her desperate crush on the dreamy Ryan Vaughn – who hardly even notices that she exists. Just when Chelsan thinks things couldn’t get any worse, though, everyone in her trailer park is brutally killed – including her mother – and Chelsan is even more dismayed to learn that she herself was actually the intended target. Now, forced into a dramatic race against time, the young survivor struggles to protect her friends and uncover the identity of the evil killer – and her uncanny ability to control the dead may just tip the scales in her favor...

Creatively crafted – and highly imaginative – Riser is a thoroughly entertaining read. In a patently unique style that’s all her own, author Becca Smith mixes the mundane with the surreal in presenting a deeply relatable tale of the woes of teen angst. The only twist? Unlike Chelsan, most teens don’t have the ability to solve their problems by raising the dead. Nonetheless, readers young and old alike will have no problem relating to the ups and downs of the adolescent’s fantastical misadventures; after all, none of us are too old to remember the particularly hellacious toll that teenage life once wreaked over our daily existence. An engaging read.

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