Advance Review of Jennifer Bosworth's The Killing Jar
Release Date: January 12th, 2016
Synopsis as found on GoodReads.com:
“I try not to think about it, what I did to that boy.”
Seventeen-year-old Kenna Marsden has a secret.
She’s haunted by a violent tragedy she can’t explain. Kenna’s past has kept people—even her own mother—at a distance for years. Just when she finds a friend who loves her and life begins to improve, she’s plunged into a new nightmare. Her mom and twin sister are attacked, and the dark powers Kenna has struggled to suppress awaken with a vengeance.
On the heels of the assault, Kenna is exiled to a nearby commune, known as Eclipse, to live with a relative she never knew she had. There, she discovers an extraordinary new way of life as she learns who she really is, and the wonders she’s capable of. For the first time, she starts to feel like she belongs somewhere. That her terrible secret makes her beautiful and strong, not dangerous. But the longer she stays at Eclipse, the more she senses there is something malignant lurking underneath it all. And she begins to suspect that her new family has sinister plans for her…
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It makes me so sad thinking how long you will have to wait to read this book. Words can not express how much I loved it. When it has been stop and go this year for the quality in Young Adult Literature for me and I have started to get bored with reading, because I haven't read as many books that I have truly loved... Bosworth's The Killing Jar brought me out of my reading funk.
A flawed girl with a dangerous power finds herself trapped between losing her family and using a gift that can make her lose herself. Kenna is a teenager who has only known sadness through out her life. Her twin sister, Erin, is dying from a debilitating affliction and there is nothing she can do. They don't know their father, so their mother, Anya, has had to raise them on her own while running her bakery in a small town. She is so afraid to get close to anyone, because of a freak accident from when she was a child, in fear that she will be the cause of another death... so she won't let her cute neighbor and best friend, Blake, get within arms reach. With all these day to day obstacles, its a wonder that she even gets out of bed.
When she is forced to use her power to stop a man who is hell bent on destroying her family, she is sent away to the family she didn't know she had so that she can recover... kind of like a rehab in the mountains, Eclipse is a secretive commune that does not look kindly upon outsiders trespassing. There she will meet a grandmother she didn't know she had, a hot new young suitor named Cyrus, find the truth about her mother's past, and meet more people like herself. Whereas she has always been a loner, believing she is the only one with this dark power... now she will have a new family full of people with the same secret she has. But for Kenna, finding the truth behind one secret, only opens up the door to many many more.
I hope that in January of next year, you will pick this book up and read for yourself just how incredible it is. It may be 6 plus months away, but it is definitely worth the wait!!
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