Through Her Eyes by Jennifer ArcherRelease Date: April 2011
Publisher: HarperTeen
Age Group: Young Adult
Pages: 384
Overall: ♥♥♥♥½
Every ghost has a story to tell.
The last place Tansy Piper wants to be is stuck in Cedar Canyon, Texas, in the middle of nowhere, with a bunch of small-town kids. But when her mother decides to move to the desolate West Texas town, Tansy has no choice but to go along. Once there, Tansy is immediately drawn to the turret of their rickety old house, a place she soon learns has a disturbing history. But it's the strange artifacts she finds in the cellar—a pocket watch, a journal of poetry, and a tiny crystal—that have the most chilling impact on her.
Tansy soon finds that through the lens of her camera, she can become part of a surreal black-and-white world where her life is intertwined with that of mysterious, troubled Henry, who lived in the same house and died decades earlier. It seems their lives are linked by fate and the artifacts she found, but as Tansy begins spending more and more time in the past, her present world starts to fade away. Tansy must untangle herself from Henry's dangerous reality—before she loses touch with her own life forever.
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My Thoughts:
I was really captured by Jennifer's writing, it was eerie and i loved it! At first I thought the book was a little slow paced but it was building up Tansy’s character and the mysterious house with the secrets it unfolded about the ghost Henry. The pacing made Tansy more developed. She could have even been a next door neighbor of mine lol.
I was literally sucked into the life behind Tansy’s camera lens. There is no doubt that she is a talented photographer and very real. I think what I admired most about her was the relationship she had with her grandfather, who stopped talking after a family death. She shows compassion and honesty and that what I really liked about her. She’s real.
I feel her Tansy too, because their always moving. Her mother is a published successful horror writer. She was doing some research for her upcoming novel in Cedar Canyon, plus her family has history there. Which I found to be completely enthralling.Some of the people were kind of snobbing, at else to Tansy(school wise). Cedar Canyon is small town to I guess you can expect a few meanies. Plus Tansy’s different, In that cool fedora-hat-wearing kind of way, so she’s bound to stuck out.
She meets Tate, the in-the-closet poet, high school hunk*dies* I pictured him to be like John Mayer. But at the same time he’s a bit stubborn but oh so yummy lol. And Henry, he’s a whole nother story, he was so interesting. I loved the bits with him in it. He brings this ghost story to life. I can’t explain him, you’ll have to pick this book up to understand what I’m staying.
I don’t know how Archer did it. I couldn’t give more praise for Through Her Eyes, It was beautifully woven together with it realistic characters and a memorizing ghost story. I wish there was a sequel!
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