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This book started out with a boy crazy girl and then ups the ante exponentially with the most unique explanation of why we are the we are - it gets CRAZY CRAZY. Beth, a high achieving high school junior receives an anonymous challenge and realizes she is "more than she thinks she is."
A real page turner that races to a resolution I never saw coming. I read it in two hours which is a record for me.


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The Seven Rays Jessica Bendinger Books Reviews

Without rehashing everything others have said I can say I agree about many of the points. The language used, while seeming innocuous at first, quickly grows irksome bordering on making the book a chore to read. I have a teenager and we even live in CA and she doesn't talk like that. However I was a bit worried that it was just me and I was too "old" for the book -- so I didn't deduct majorly for language.

What I did deduct for is the main character. She was very unappealing to me. I have a gifted teen who is looking to graduate early so I spent much of the book trying to find some similarities (probably in the back of my head to make more sense of actions and words of the characters) but it just never came. I read alot of young adult and juvenile fiction and generally I enjoy it (provided it is not the "OMG he's, like, soo cute" type!). This one failed to sustain my interest in a way that kept me invested in the story. I was able to continue in the book but the spark was just not there. I think there is a good story in there somewhere and the premise again is very interesting. There are moments when you think the book is getting better and then it just doesn't. It's that type of book.

In the end I can say it was just allright. My teen read a few pages and flat out told me she would not read further (she is reading The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Bradley to give you an idea of what she likes). However this is the same thing she told me about the Twilight book so I can't say she seems representative of other teens.

2 stars for the interesting premise-it really is intriguing. Unfortunately nothing else would merit any higher of a rating than that.
Beth Michaels might be going crazy. One day she's perfectly normal, and the next, she starts seeing these strange pink dots everywhere. Unfortunately, it doesn't even stop there. Ropes, chains, and disgusting black gunk show up on virtually every person she sees, as well as glimpses into a people's minds, memories, secrets, and fears if she looks at someone for too long. But even though other people think Beth is crazy too, the thing is, she might not be. Because along with this strange new vision, Beth also starts receiving gold envelopes with mysterious message, envelopes Beth soon finds out she's been receiving her whole life but hasn't been aware of until now. The first message Beth gets says "You are more than you think you are." And as Beth soon finds out, that's probably true.

The Seven Rays is one confusing jumbled mix mash of too many things at once. Yes, there are paranormal occurrences, lots of them in fact, the period of doubting sanity, and romance, among other things. That's precisely the problem with this book. Bedinger tries to include way too many things into her debut novel that the story loses its sense of purpose. On one hand, Beth has normal everyday problems with her mother and best friend. On the other, there's this romance with Beth and Richie. Then, on an imaginary third hand, there's all that supernatural stuff. It's this imaginary third hand that screws this book up the most. There's just so much about destiny and special skills as well as some kind of special prophecy or organization that's never adequately explained that floods the story in the worst possible way. This is the kind of novel where I really wonder how it got published considering the story is such a mess. Is it because Bedinger is a moderately well known screenwriter? If that's so, I think Bedinger better stick to that.

The Seven Rays may be enjoyed by fans of Swoon by Nina Malkin and The Hollow by Jessica Verday. I doubt I will read any sequel to this novel.
I love this book! Jessica is such an amazing writer and this is a wonderful expression of her talent.
I bought the book because of the hype, and it is now sitting at Half-Price Books. I didn't even want this piece of rubbish on my bookshelf. There was nothing to hold your attention, it left off at a weird point with no mention of a sequel, and was overall a wannabe twilight hit. I do not recommend.
This book started out with a boy crazy girl and then ups the ante exponentially with the most unique explanation of why we are the we are - it gets CRAZY CRAZY. Beth, a high achieving high school junior receives an anonymous challenge and realizes she is "more than she thinks she is."
A real page turner that races to a resolution I never saw coming. I read it in two hours which is a record for me.