They were tricky, looking-glass eyes with quicksilver surfaces, and tunnels, staircases and mirror mazes hidden behind them, none of them leading anywhere recognizable. Some people thought they looked dependable, but to Laura there was nothing safe about them. He had grey eyes with the curious trick of turning silver if you looked at them from the side. When she gets to school, Sorry Carlisle deigns to look at her, a lowly fourth-former (if I’m remembering my Harry Potter correctly this translates into “high school freshman”) Laura doesn’t know whether she is attracted to or terrified of Sorry. Laura receives a third warning one ordinary morning as she is getting ready for school, and unable to convince her mother to heed her (or even, really, what she is being warned against), Laura is helpless as her family’s life is turned upside down in the next 24 hours.
While everyone else regards Sorry as bright student, with a detached air that made him instantly cool, Laura knows with absolute certainty that he is a witch. The second came on the day Sorrenson “Sorry” Carlisle, the long-lost scion of one of Christchurch’s founding families, arrived at school. Laura received the first of these “warnings” as she calls them years earlier, on the day her father walked out on them. Laura is troubled only by the rare psychic urge, which send her into a panic. Finances are spread thin after her father left the family for another woman, since child support comes erratically and her mother’s job at bookstore doesn’t pay much, but Laura is content with the daily rituals of school, babysitting her brother and late dinners with her mother. Unlike most of her friends, Laura is happy to live a low-key and anonymous life. The Plot: Frumpy 14 year old Laura Chant lives with her single mother and 3 year old brother, Jacko, in the totally boring suburb of Gardendale, near Christchurch, New Zealand. Clearly, Point (Scholastic) is trying to repackage New Zealander Mahy’s coming-of-age-story as a high school romance- however, the actual story is more A Wrinkle in Time than Twilight.
Regular readers know that I love the dissonance between a book’s cover art and the actual content. He offers her life, death or the supernatural- but the choice she makes must be her own.
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