Locked In Time, by Lois DuncanYoung Adult, 1985
Nore visits her father and his new family in Louisiana for the summer, just before she heads off to college. But time seems to stand still there, and people aren't what they seem. Nore must solve the mystery of this place before she or her father become killed...and yet she seems to be the only one who knows something is wrong.
Raspberry: Interested by the summary, I grabbed it from a book sale for 50 cents. I started it with lower expectations - Duncan's books always have fascinating plots, but sometimes I can't handle the stress of reading them. This, however, seemed a departure for her writing. Nore's situation was incredibly realistic, and while you were scared it wasn't horror-movie scary, more shocking scary at the reality of what is possible. The romance isn't overdone, and the characterization was fantastic. When I finished I mulled for days over other ways it could have ended and whether or not I liked how it finished. It can really get you thinking, and despite being so very very different from The Adoration of Jenna Fox, it makes you think in the same way, and perhaps could be a companion book for those that liked it. (Although this is more mystic than sci-fi.)
Graded a B+.
3 comments:
I loved Lois Duncan growing up! My favorite was Down a Dark Hall. Read it over and over and over!
I was a HUGE Lois Duncan fan, too. I actually repurchased Down a Dark Hall and Daughters of Eve recently because I couldn't find my old copies. Eventually will get even more of them back. I don't know if I would like them in the same way reading them for the first time now, but the nostalgia factor helps.
Locked in Time was one of my favorite Lois Duncans growing up--I still remember one line about how being clear-skinned and attractive was a birthright of being seventeen (only she said it in much lovelier language) and I couldn't wait to turn seventeen and inherit my 'hot' birthright.
Funny, Melanie and Jill--Down a Dark Hall and Daughters of Eve were my *least* favorite Lois Duncan books--they were just too creepy; too disturbing/depressing. I loved the more suspenseful ones (Don't Look Behind You [my first one], Summer of Fear {LOVE], Stranger With My face, They Never Came Home, Ransom, even Killing Mr. Griffin).
Raspberry, I'm intrigued by the comparison to Adoration of Jenna Fox--I just read (and loved) that one; I'll have to reread LiT and find the parallels.
So glad to have found this blog (and fun meeting you today!).
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