As humans, we need meaningful social connections, and when we're disconnected we're willing and able to mistake electronic solutions for real friendships. Overall, this book provides needed commentary on how far we will go when we're lonely and hurt. AJ ultimately recognizes the love and importance of her family (even though they're not adept at showing it) and new friends. The exciting climax pits AJ and the two kids she knows best against the stranger who slips away like a spider on a strand of silk. He plays it well until he finally can't keep it up. He keeps her hooked by giving her just enough illusion to encourage her dream of a loving family.ĪJ pieces together the few shreds of the family story that she knows, fitting the stranger into the Dad role. She tries to pry information out of him, but he dodges her questions. AJ knows he can tell her the truth about her parents. He's elusive, reclusive, and doesn't want her to tell anyone he's there, especially not her mom or Gramma. When she meets a traveling musician in town for the Caribou Carnival, someone who knew her mom as a young woman, she's intrigued. She refuses other kids' attempts at friendship, and, instead of building a social network, she opens up online in her blog.ĪJ's self-isolation leaves her vulnerable. To deal with emotional agony brought on by bullies, a strict grandmother, and being deserted, AJ cuts herself, just a little bit and above the elbow so she can hide it. AJ's angry, abandoned, and having trouble adjusting to yet another new school, another town, and life without her mom. AJ hasn't seen her father since she was little, and neither her mother nor Gramma will tell her anything about him. AJ and her mom have bumped from place to place, fleeing a past her mom won't discuss. In her teen thriller, Spider's Song, Anita Daher weaves a story of deceit and untold truths and shows us what happens when people don't talk face to face.įifteen-year-old AJ now lives with her Gramma in Yellowknife, left behind when her mom returned to university. Internet stalkers, creepy like spiders, use the web to ensnare their unsuspecting prey - perhaps more of us should be scared. The James Gang, all for one, and one for all. No matter what had come before, she had always been there for AJ. It suffocated her, or maybe she was only forgetting to breathe. Tears dried, she stood, losing herself in the endless emptiness wrapped around her. She heard it thunk against the pit's wall and then land somewhere far below. Not a vampire after all.Īngry, and still crying, AJ threw the rock away.
Why not? She was a creature of the night. She licked her arm, sucking her own blood. Reviewed from Uncorrected and Unpublished Proofs.
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