At seventeen, Sylvie Davis had the world at her feet. She
is the youngest principal dancer for the American Ballet
doing the one thing she loved more than anything. All it
takes is one misstep, an error in balance, for her world to
come crashing down. Now recovering from a career ending
injury, Sylvie is sent to rural Alabama to spend two weeks
with an aunt she barely knows to "dry out" while her mother
and new step-dad honeymoon.
The secrets of Bluestone Hill begin almost as soon as Sylvie
gets off the plane in Alabama. Rhys Griffiths is staying at
Bluestone with his father while on sabbatical from
university in the UK. Handsome and guarded as he is, Sylvie
still gets the sense of knowing him, but her dislike for her
exile and general bad attitude toward the world has her
butting heads with him. Sylvie also believes he is
hiding something from her, much like most of the community
of Maddox Landing.
It seems Sylvie's family is some type of royalty to the
community, and expectations are high for her and the
resident golden boy, Shawn Maddox. Shawn's charisma could
charm a snake out of its skin, yet Sylvie fights to resist
him. Shawn's Teen Town Council just doesn't seem right to her.
Sylvie has never believed in magic or ghosts, but with the
events unfolding around her at Bluestone Hill, Sylvie is
questioning both her sanity and the existence of magic.
Crying from the forest, spectral images, and folklore and
history in the area lead Sylvie down a dangerous path; one
where she must choose between what she truly wants, and what
is right.
THE SPLENDOR FALLS, written by Rosemary Clement-Moore author
of Prom Dates from Hell, is a wonderful read from
beginning to end. The main characters are distinctive, the
settings are written beautifully, and the flow of the story
carries a reader easily from chapter to chapter. It is a
mystery, a coming of age, and a bit of suspense story all
rolled up into a neat package. Even though this is written
with a young adult audience in mind, this story is done well
enough that it spans into the adult genre as well, making it
an enjoyable read for all.
Sylvie Davis is a ballerina who can't dance, she lost
everything important to her in one missed step.
Uprooting her from her Manhattan apartment, and shipping her
to Alabama is her mother's solution for Sylvie's
unhappiness. But life might not be any more simple down
south. As it turns out, her family has a lot more history
than Sylvie ever knew. More unnerving, though, are the two
guys that she can't stop thinking about.
Then Sylvie starts seeing things. A girl down by the lake. A
man peering into the window. And a graveyard with an oddly
placed headstone. Sylvie's lost nearly everything—is she
starting to lose her mind as well?
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