Shattered Mirror - (Den of Shadows, #.3)

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Laurel Leaf

2003

240 páginas

8h 0m

ISBN-11: 0440229405_

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. Single Earth, 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 face off 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).