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The Clearing von Heather Davis
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The Clearing (2010. Auflage)

von Heather Davis

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Amy, a sixteen-year-old girl recovering from an abusive relationship, moves to the country in Washington to live with her great-aunt, and there she discovers a mysterious clearing in the woods where she meets Henry, a boy stuck in the summer of 1944.
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Titel:The Clearing
Autoren:Heather Davis
Info:Graphia (2010), Edition: 1, Paperback, 228 pages
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Amy is running. After escaping an abusive relationship with her boyfriend, she left her mother in Seattle to live with her Aunt Mae, who owns a trailer on an old farm in the country. There she hopes to recover herself, go to a normal high school, and make normal friends. She befriends a boy who lives on the farm just beyond the misty border of Aunt Mae’s land. But he is hiding something too — afraid what he knows the future will bring.

Henry lives the eternal summer of 1944, holding off the fall through some mysterious power. He and his mother and grandfather live on the farm which Amy’s Aunt now owns. Through the granting of Henry’s thoughtless prayer, they are stuck in the summer , suspended in their life before the telegram arrived announcing his brother’s death in the war. And Amy is the only one who has been able to break through.

This young adult novel combines elements of history, modern high school life, and time travel. The characters, though mostly likable, seem flat and stereotypical. The chapters alternate from Amy’s first person to Henry’s third person perspective. Amy seems to be recklessly irresponsible — sneaking out at night and lying to her aunt about her whereabouts, despite multiple conversations in which Amy seems to genuinely care for her aunt and promises to tell her where she is going. Neither Amy or Henry seem to be particularly sympathetic characters, and I found their mostly selfish actions to be off-putting. Not a fan. ( )
  resoundingjoy | Jan 1, 2021 |
3.8 ( )
  Carla_Rees | Jan 15, 2014 |
Sixteen-year-old Amy has left Seattle, what's left of her friends, her mother, and her abusive boyfriend behind to go live with her great-aunt in a dilapidated trailer in the middle of Nowhereville. There isn't much out on her Aunt Mae's wooded land except for a thick mist that seems to sing to her whenever she tries to cross through it. There isn't anything on the other side, or is there? Just through the foggy veil is Henry, an 18-year-old who has relieved the same summer for decades. Stuck in 1944, he and his family can't move on because night after night he prays for it not to. When he meets Amy, though, he wishes that he could move on with her, but how can these two from vastly different worlds collide?

The premise captured me instantly as I'm a fan of historical fiction, especially the WWII era. Henry's world was old-fashioned and slow, but I kept wanting more and never received it. Amy's side felt underdeveloped to me, especially with her friendships. The book was short and heartfelt, but I just wanted more when it ended. Overall, it was a good read, though it felt a little abrupt at the end. ( )
  BelleoftheBook | Jul 2, 2013 |
I chose to read a book called "The Clearing" by Heather Davis for my free book. I just saw it on the shelf and was drawn to the cover and started reading.

I actually read this book in one day, only stopping to read to work a short shift at the reference desk. I literally couldn't put it down. It was a somewhat short story about a teenage girl, Amy, who moves in with her great aunt after she has some boy problems at home. She moves from Seattle to a small town in Skagit Valley and one day, upon exploring the land her aunt's trailer is on, she walks through this thick fog in the clearing and ends up traveling back to 1944 where she meets Henry.

Henry, his mother and his grandfather, due to a prayer Henry made, are stuck in a time bubble where it is always summer, always the day before they got bad news about Henry's brother who went missing while serving in the war. Henry realizes that Amy is from the future but falls in love with her nonetheless. I won't say any more about the plot, but it was a sweet and simply story about struggle and change and of course, love.

The element of magic wasn't played up, and while the idea of time travel was addressed, it wasn't of great importance as the story was more about the relationship that was created than the idea of time travel itself.

I think teens would like this book because some of the struggles that Amy had such as the struggle to fit in in a new place - both living with her elderly aunt as well as moving from Seattle to a tiny town - as well as her struggle to make sense of the relationships she had with her parents (and their lack of interest in her life). It was also about finding love and learning how to decide what is right for you and how you should be treated. It isn't too much of a coming of age story, but it clearly shows one teen's struggle to find balance in the face of hurt and opposition. ( )
  cdelli | Apr 10, 2013 |
Amy doesn't have a whole lot going for her in Seattle. She's just come out of a disastrous relationship and her friends don't believe her when she tells them how bad it was for her. She decides to try to get a fresh start by moving in with her great-aunt Mae in a little town called Rockville. Amy's been hurt so badly that it's hard for her to open up enough to even make friends. When she's out throwing sticks for the dog one day, Amy notices a band of fog at the back of the property that never goes away. She goes through the fog and meets Henry, a strangely-dressed boy who she immediately feels comfortable with. He becomes her only good friend in this little town, but no one seems to have ever even heard of him.

I just loved this, and in a way I'm surprised. There are some fantasy elements here, but this is more of a love story and that is usually not my thing at all.

No, now that I think about it, the romance wasn't even entirely the point. It's more about Amy getting past this huge hurt in her past and learning to take care of herself first. That is the kind of thing I like, and that's what the appeal was. Whew! I was afraid I was getting soft there for a minute!

I obviously read my share of YA books, but I tend to stick to fantasy. In that genre, there are tons of "bad boys" that the heroines fall all over. Now, I like me a bad boy or two, but they can't be all bad, and some of these guys I've come across are all bad. You won't really find me bashing Edward, but I found Patch from [b:Hush, Hush|6339664|Hush, Hush (Hush, Hush, #1)|Becca Fitzpatrick|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1275621186s/6339664.jpg|6525609] to be an abusive jacka** and it bothers me that teen readers just love him. (Finally tying this in now) I'm glad to read a book that shows that abuse happens and it leaves you devastated. These themes might show up in contemporary YA books, but this is the first time I've found it in the YA I read. It is never okay for your boyfriend to slam you into a wall or to bust your lip or to pressure you into "doing it" and this book showed that without getting preachy at all. We get to see the wreckage of Amy's life in the wake of her abuse and we get to see her ex-boyfriend's behavior compared to that of Henry, an almost perfect gentleman that I couldn't help but love. I wanted to cheer when Amy says something like, "I'm looking out for myself now."

There is a very sweet romance between Amy and Henry and I liked it. It mostly left me smiling. I'm not sure how I feel about the ending. There's a bit about how each of our lives affect other peoples' lives, which is something I really don't get tired of reading about, but I'm afraid that a perfectly nice character is going to get hurt and I don't know how I feel about that. It's ambiguous though, so if I think about it long enough, maybe I'll come up with a way for everyone to be happy.

If you're in the mood for a sweet love story that has quite a bit about teen girls learning to love themselves first, pick this up. I enjoyed every minute of it. ( )
  JG_IntrovertedReader | Apr 3, 2013 |
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