Every year Sierra and her family leaves their Oregon home to set up their Christmas Tree lot in sunny California. The older Sierra gets the harder it is for her to leaver her friends in Oregon, Even though she has a good friend in California, it is tough. In California Sierra and her folks live in an Air-stream on their Christmas Tree lot. They work from sun up to sun down and Sierra goes to virtual school to stay caught up with her peers. This year is different. Sierra's parents are trying to decide if they want to continue running the lot in California.
Sierra isn't in California long when she meets Caleb. A young man who has bought more than one Christmas tree from the lot. Sierra is intrigued about this young man. Even more so when one of the guys working at the lot warns her off of him. Caleb is a wild card and has a violent past. Will Sierra heed the warning or will following her heart get her in trouble?
What Light was a quick and easy read. Sierra was a smart and likable character. She was torn between two worlds - her life in Oregon and her life in California. I liked all of her friends, even Caleb. For the most part they were good kids. Having been a huge fan of Jay Asher's novel, Thirteen Reasons Why, I was expecting a little something deeper or more gripping than what we find in What Light. Something with a little more substance. He scratches the surface with Caleb's story-line, but I don't feel it lived up to it's potential. Not that having a lighter story is a bad thing, I was just hoping for more. I was also hoping for an Epilogue, to see what the next year brings for Sierra, but no luck. In the end, the story was your typical cheesy Christmas novel and I did enjoy every word.
Bottom line - What Light was your typical holiday novel. Full of Christmas traditions, no matter how non-traditional they were. A quick and easy read and likely coming to a Hallmark Channel in the next few years.
Details:
- What Light by Jay Asher
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- Pages: 272
- Publisher: Penguin Young Readers
- Publication Date: 10/18/16
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