Far From Reality

Ari has always been diffrent, with her silver hair and violet eyes she stands out, and not for the good. Certain events lead her into New 2, what New orleans is now called after massive hurricanes wiped it out, there she finds friends and secrets are revealed to her, but can she handle them? Even with a vengeful goddess and soldiers that  dissapear into mist trying to get a hold of her?

This was a good book, i really enjoyed the apocolyptic/dystopian feel to it, and the fact the people in New 2 were 'paranormal' or 'unusual' the whole word had not changed, just one city, it added realness to it. What i really did not like was the overuse of swear words, I can accept a few, maby a bit more but there was just an overabundance to where it got quite uncomftorble and i really could have done without them. It never made me want to stop reading though, the book is just way to interesting for that.

Ari is a good character, though she does suffer from some flaws, shes a bit whiney and she accepts her curse (she will go insane at the age of 21, like her mother started to and her grandma)she dosn't give it a second thought, which seems unreal. The other characters were really good though, Crank, her brother sebastian, Henri, dub and Violet added flavor. Violet was really cool in my opinion, she was a tough little girl. The romance was nice, in the fact there really wasn't too much, this is more of an actionish/secret discovery book, not teen fluff.

The idea of Athena being some voodoo-like (at least to me) goddess of destruction was interesting, and even more so since she seems to fear Ari, what could possibly scare a goddess? You find out about 70% of the way through. And its extremely interesting!

If you into gods and mortals fighting, apocolyptic/dystopian fiction and a few good twists you will enjoy Darkness Becomes Her, i eagerly await the next book in the series.