A Certain Slant of Light...

Helen is a disembodied spirit who "attaches" herself to humans in order to possess their bodies. Unable to remember the circumstances of her death, and with no idea why she's in this precarious state of limbo, she knows this much: she's been haunting the living world for 130 years. But when Helen inhabits the body of a high school teacher, everything changes. For though he remains quite unaware of her presence, a certain boy in his class is clearly able to see Helen. This realization, and Helen's subsequent introduction to him, rocks her world. Uncomfortable with the boundaries of her existence, Helen continues to test them and takes hair-raising risks -- often for love. Moved by her passions, she is stymied by limits placed on her that she doesn't yet understand and is unable to control. Despite the supernatural realm it explores, A Certain Slant of Light is nothing sort of chilling in its evocation of a world that's starkly real, and a newfound love that's positively sublime.

I haven't read a book in a while that had kept me up from 9 p.m- 1:30 a.m. This book was wonderful and I loved it. WARNING: there are a lot of mature elements in this book such as sex, language drugs. But nothing readers of Ellen Hopkins aren't used to. Wow that's the second Ellen Hopkins reference that I've made in the last two reviews. I'll try to not do that in my next one. But anyhoo... I loved this book and can't wait for the next one because Helen/Jenny and James/Billy were so lovable and ignorant of the customs that we have today that it was adorable. The second on is about Billy and Jenny's relationship from James and Helen's point of view (read the book to understand why they aren't connected anymore).