A Certain Slant of Light | 
 enlarge | Author: Laura Whitcomb
Publisher: Graphia Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 457
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.2 x 0.9
ISBN: 061858532X
EAN: 9780618585328
ASIN: 061858532X
Publication Date: September 21, 2005
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 Beautifull December 29, 2008
This book kept me company when I was having a bad day and I could not put it down. Such a lovely story although I did cry a tear or two, but that's what made it even better!
best book i'v read this year December 6, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'v just finshed reading this book,i got to say it's amazing,one of the best books i'v ever read,i'd just finshed reading twilight and this was recommended to me.The story will stay with you long after you've finshed the last page,buy this book you will not be sorry.
 Good, with a few gaping holes. November 30, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I admit, I'm bemused by this book. On one hand, I wanted to slap down five stars because it was so very compelling - I read it in two days, which is no mean feat when you're the working mother of two small children! But at the same time, while reading I kept having moments of, 'Hold on, that's just too implausible, even for a book about body-hopping ghosts.'
I think - at the risk of sounding flippant - that this book suffers for being the author's first novel. If it hadn't been, I suspect many of the things in it that struck me as rushed, superfluous or confused wouldn't have been there. I also think that the chosen (or assigned?) genre ended up being a detriment: yes, it's set in a high school, but the themes are very much adult ones. And no, I don't mean the sex, but rather the motivating factors of the main characters: a mother's love, a soldier's guilt, a loveless marriage, the regret of those approaching middle-age. I have to wonder what this novel might have been if those themes had been allowed the more generous time and space, the greater depth of an 'adult' novel?
Likewise I was annoyed by the ending, which tried to cram far too much into too tight a space, much of it frankly ridiculous. (Spoilers following!) I could just about buy Jenny's pregnancy, though it seemed a bit gratuitous, but the idea of Helen being able to feel the movement of a three-day-old fetus was absurd. Likewise the sleeping pills: seeing as Helen was already dead, what was ODing going to accomplish other than further devastating Jenny's ruptured family? And Billy came over as far too mature and together in the final scenes, given his past and how little information he had to go on.
I guess the fact that I've written this much about it must say something to the book's credit. It's certainly compulsive reading, and very well written. In the end, though, I just wanted it to ring a bit more true.
breathe taking and spine tingling August 25, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I found this book thanks to Amazon and once i opened that first page i was hooked, i couldnt stop reading this book til the end it is a profound book (to me) it blew me away the whole idea of two ghosts 'light' falling in love and finding bodies was perfect but the way their relationship was the love they had the bond they had because they were the only two alike was brilliant. The whole god idea too, them not being let into heaven because they had done something bad was good too and getting to the end and finding out what they had done was chair gripping. Also at the end i was in tears how they had lost each other only to find themselves in heaven together again and even though it doesnt actually say Jenny and Billy get together im thinking they do and they also live happily ever after (cos im a sucker for a fairytale ending)and as so as i had shut the book i emidiately wanted to flip back to the begginging and start all over again.
If you are looking for a book that will have you chewing your own lip then buy this it is a life realising book (at least it was for me) and i will never forget this book and i doubt you will either. Buy it, buy it now you wont regret it
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beautifully written, wonderfully thoughtful with an inspired ending August 18, 2008
Captivating and engaging, the story grabs readers from the very first page. It goes as follows; Helen, a ghost, "attaches" herself to human hosts to avoid the grave and the painful and frightening torments that go with it. The author leads readers to think she has been subjected to some sort of divine punishment for some misdeed in her life. Although her hosts are unaware of her presence, she has love for them and try's to help each one throughout their human lives. When she realises a human hears and sees her she is shocked - and at first, understandably, frightened. From that point readers are captivated by a story filled with passion, hope, understanding and finally enlightenment. It is a special book with an ending that not only gives peace to the characters; it subtly explains that we humans are our own judges and condemners'. Atonement and forgiveness is ours to grant to ourselves and once done, happilly ever after follows. Buy this book.
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