5/27/2023 0 Comments Bleeding violet by dia reeves![]() Reeves writes surely and with flair, though readers should be prepared for gore (Hanna slices flesh from Wyatt's father's leg to defeat a demon) and other disturbing moments, as when a naked Hanna and Rosalee torture a boy. Dia Reeves Bleeding Violet is about a mysteeerrious small town with an overtly-magical atmosphere and a (slightly odd) female protagonist hanging with a group. Even as Rosalee slowly warms to her daughter, walls remain, at one point driving Hanna to attempt suicide. Summary: A mentally ill sixteen-year-old girl reunites with her estranged mother in an East Texas town that is haunted with doors to dimensions of the dead and protected by demon hunters called Mortmaine. Hanna's sassy voice reflects her freewheeling, unstable personality ("back in Dallas, I decided to sleep with all the boys in my class in alphabetical order"). A group called the Mortmaine keeps the population safe, and when Hanna helps a member named Wyatt defeat the lures, she finally earns acceptance in the unfriendly town. ![]() But Hanna soon learns that Portero has doors to other worlds, allowing ghoulish creatures such as "lures," who can turn people to glass, to wreak havoc. In Reeves's dark and stylish first novel, 16-year-old Hanna arrives in the Texas town of Portero seeking Rosalee, the mother she's never known, and fleeing her aunt, who wants her back in a mental institution (Hanna is manic-depressive and has conversations with her deceased father). ![]()
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