The Splendor Falls
Can love last beyond the grave?Sylvie Davis is a ballerina who can’t dance. A broken leg ended her career, but Sylvie’s pain runs deeper. What broke her heart was her father’s death, and what’s breaking her spirit is her mother’s remarriage—a union that’s only driven an even deeper wedge into...
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Can love last beyond the grave?Sylvie Davis is a ballerina who can’t dance. A broken leg ended her career, but Sylvie’s pain runs deeper. What broke her heart was her father’s death, and what’s breaking her spirit is her mother’s remarriage—a union that’s only driven an even deeper wedge into their already tenuous relationship. Uprooting her from her Manhattan apartment and shipping her to Alabama is her mother’s solution for Sylvie’s unhappiness. Her father’s cousin is restoring a family home in a town rich with her family’s history. And that’s where things start to get shady. As it turns out, her family has a lot more history than Sylvie ever knew. More unnerving, though, are the two guys that she can’t stop thinking about. Shawn Maddox, the resident golden boy, seems to be perfect in every way. But Rhys—a handsome, mysterious foreign guest of her cousin’s—has a hold on her that she doesn’t quite understand. Then she starts seeing things. Sylvie’s lost nearly everything—is she starting to lose her mind as well?
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780385736909 (0385736908)
ASIN: 0385736908
Publish date: 2009-09-08
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Pages no: 528
Edition language: English
3.5 stars I like the cover of this book and even though I'm not exactly sure why it's called The Splendor Falls, I like the title too. Both the title and the cover just sort of beckoned me to read it, promising a lot of good gothic mystery. The book is about Silvie, who is recuperating from a tragic...
Sylvie Davis was on her way to becoming a famous Ballerina. But a broken leg ended her career. But there is more to her pain than just a broken leg. Her father died a few years ago and now her mother is remarrying. Thinking it will be good for her, Sylvie's mother and stepfather send her to Alabama,...
Amazing book! :) It was a great read. (And I'm not just saying that because of the hottie named Rhys.)The entire story is really interesting, and It kept me guessing until the very end! Rosemary Clement-Moore is an amazing author, and I can't wait to read Texas Gothic.
After her father dies and her mother marries her therapist, former ballerina Sylvie is sent to stay with unknown relatives in a small town in the South, where she discovers that her family has an ancestral mansion and a long local history. Are some of their secrets supernatural?If this storyline sou...