Shattered Mirror

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Shattered Mirror is a vampire novel written by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, published in 2001 when the author was 17. W. B. Yeats’ poem "The Two Trees", which references broken glass, appears in the beginning of the book, and is the inspiration for the title.

The novel was an ALA Quick Pick and called “an action-packed thriller” by Booklist, who also wrote that Atwater-Rhodes "owns a readable prose style and a vivid imagination." School Library Journal said that “readers will be swept away by the seductive world of good and evil and find themselves lusting for a few more chapters.”

[edit] Summary

The book is set in Acton, Massachusetts, the neighboring town to the author’s hometown of Concord, and follows the story of Sarah Tigress Vida, youngest daughter in a long line of vampire-hunting witches who see the world in black and white. In the hunt for Nikolas, a vampire that killed a Vida a century ago, Sarah finds Christopher and Nissa, siblings vampires who don’t kill when they need to feed. As Sarah’s friendship with Christopher begins to turn into something more, she is forbidden to see him by her domineering mother, Dominique. Ultimately, when Sarah discovers Christopher’s true identity and his tie to Nikolas, Sarah finds that her world has room for a little gray. At the end of the book, Christopher and Nikolas put Sarah in a position that only has two solutions.

[edit] Trivia

• Atwater-Rhodes has been quoted to say that the idea for this story came to her after listening to Sarah McLachlan's 1997 album Surfacing.

• The main character is named after the artist; Sarah has a sister named Adianna, nicknamed Adia (the name taken from McLachlan's song, "Adia").
• The major theme of the book is that the world isn't just "Black and White" but that there is room for shades of gray.
• "Building a Mystery" has direct references to vampires.

• Atwater-Rhodes wrote all of the poetry found in the book.
• This is the only vampire novel of Atwater-Rhodes' that didn't go through a title change.