Shattered Mirror
The book cover
Besides Anne Rice and Bram Stoker books, you never hear much about really popular vampire books. Besides Twilight that is. Shattered Mirror, by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes is not the most popular book on vampires, but it is a good one.
The story revolves around Sarah Vida, a descendant of the powerline of witches who hunt vampires. Sarah's mother, Dominique taught her two daughter perfect self control, discipline, and strength, cold and mercilessly. Sarah was a vampire hunter, as cruel and as pitiless as her mother and her older sister, Adianna.
Everything changes when they move to the small town af Acton. There she meets the vampire siblings Christopher and Nissa Ravena, a couple of peaceful vampires who live off donated blood. The brother and sister are too weak to be able to see Sarah for the danger she is, and Christopher falls in love with Sarah. Sarah finds herself unwillingly falling for the boy the very laws of her kind forbid her to even socialize with and risks being disowned, and her powers stripped away from her.
Meanwhile, Sarah stalks the infamous Nikolas, a vampire known for cutting his name into the arm of the humans he drinks from. But things go even more astray when Sarah finds out something about Nikolas that makes good and evil not so recognizable. Where good and evil used to be as clear as black and white, there only leaves shades of grey.
With amazing poetry scattered in the book, Amelia Atwater-Rhodes astounded people for writing such a great book as a teenager. Shattered Mirror is certainly a great book if vampires are your thing.
Cold as winter; strong as stone,
She faced the darkness all alone,
A silver goddess; a reflection,
A mirage; a recollection,
No return; no turning back,
The past is gone, the future, black.
Serpents gather in their nest,
And she stands above the rest,
Shadows hunt; she hunts the shadow,
The moon is risen; she stands below,
She views the world through the eyes of others,
black and white; there are no colours,
As she looks down upon a shattered youth.
A shattered mirror shows a shattered truth.
