--- product_id: 1519772 title: "Ultraviolet Paperback – January 1, 2013" brand: "r.j. anderson" price: "₨387" currency: SCR in_stock: true reviews_count: 7 url: https://www.desertcart.sc/products/1519772-ultraviolet-paperback-january-1-2013 store_origin: SC region: Seychelles --- # Ultraviolet Paperback – January 1, 2013 **Brand:** r.j. anderson **Price:** ₨387 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Ultraviolet Paperback – January 1, 2013 by r.j. anderson - **How much does it cost?** ₨387 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.sc](https://www.desertcart.sc/products/1519772-ultraviolet-paperback-january-1-2013) ## Best For - r.j. anderson enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted r.j. anderson brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Full description not available ## Images ![Ultraviolet Paperback – January 1, 2013 - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81CRIrJPzwL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A rich and beautiful sci-fi thriller *by C***O on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 1, 2013* :[...]I was legitimately obsessed with this book from the get-go. I mean, how can you not want to devour it after reading just the first three lines of the blurb? You start right in the middle of the action and Alison sucks you in. She's unsure of herself, quiet, smart--all the things us readerly geeks were back in high school. But she's special, too. She smells sounds. Tastes colors. Listens to the music of the stars at night. It's one of the most interesting portrayals of synethesia that I've seen, and an amazing way to turn what could be a generic genre book into something special and memorable. The Alison-Faraday relationship weirded me out a little on grounds of age-differences-creep-me-the-hell-out, but the hopeless romantic in me was caught. And I loved that the sci-fi was there but not overpowering; for the most part, this is a story about a girl finding herself and struggling to stay afloat in a world that tells her she's insane.plot . 5/5There's no lag time. You start right in the action and Alison helps you to catch up later. Rather than being confusing, it's exciting. Like solving a mystery. You're also living inside Alison's head, because even she doesn't know what's going on at first. The central mystery of Tori drags you into the story head-first. Did she really disintegrate? Was Alison hallucinating? Did Alison kill her? Does she have some kind of supernatural powers? These questions stay up in the air for a long time, allowing you to feel Alison's own struggle--is what she saw real, or is she insane? Is she a murderer? The turn happens very suddenly, but the ending doesn't feel rushed. What did irk me was the way Alison figured out the conversation between Mathis and Sebastian near the end. Because it screamed deus ex machina. But using her synesthesia as both character quirk and plot twist was brilliant. And in the end, the plot was tight, thrilling, and well done.concept . 5/5I love good portrayals of psychopathology in literature. Synesthesia is one that hasn't been covered very much at all, but it's so interesting. Anderson gives us a pretty accurate portrayal of intense synesthesia here, while also upping it to a kind of supernatural level to fit with the speculative nature of the story. Adding psychology to sci-fi was another brilliant stroke. Because the whole time, you're wondering how much is real and how much is in Alison's head. It gives the book a deeper layer than just a hardcore sci-fi thriller would, while still being thrilling.characters . 5/5I loved Alison. She can be a little annoying at times, but in an endearing way. She's broken. She's been afraid her whole life of being insane. She feels abandoned by everyone that she cared about. The side characters are more variable. Melissa feels thrown in just as another psychic blow to Alison; I'm not so sure that her "betrayal" is more than another way to make you feel sorry for the MC. Alison's parents are also a little underdeveloped. It ends there. Alison's psychiatrist, Faraday, and the other patients are all real people in their own right, each playing an important part. Even the small ones who seem superfluous, like Micheline, play an important role in helping to show Alison's development as a person. It felt real.style . 5/5Gorgeous. Anderson has a sense of style that's much more mature than your average YA. It's lyrical in places and richly descriptive, filled with sensory information. Which is absolutely brilliant, because you can see Alison's synesthesia in the very way she talks and describes her world. Even if synesthesia is something very foreign to you, the way Alison narrates her world allows you to jump into her head and to imagine for yourself that maybe the name Tori tastes like cough syrup and pain is violent orange. It's beautiful, truly.mechanics . 5/5Many more adjectives than I'm usually comfortable with, but as I said above, it works. Very nicely polished. Also, the chapter titles are brilliant. Since Alison's brain assigns character, color, and other qualities to numbers, you get her take on each title. For example: Nine (is black); Twelve (is reckless). The descriptions for each number are also cleverly descriptive of the content of each chapter. Oh, and did I mention that nine is my favorite number and black is my favorite color? Just sayin'.take home messageA refreshingly mature YA that takes sci-fi to a deeply emotional level, with a dash of danger, a twist of romance, and pages of beautiful writing. Read more ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ There's a sequel. Good thing. *by P***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 21, 2014* Sixteen-year-old Alison wakes up in a mental institution and quickly remembers why she's here: she freaked out, assaulted a cop, and confessed to murdering her classmate Tori. Not just murdering, either. Disintegrating. Alison knows what she saw, what she did--unless, of course, she's crazy. But the cops can't find Tori. And Alison has always been able to sense things no one else can: the color of sounds and scents, the taste of names. Maybe her abilities finally culminated in the power to vaporize someone.If Alison's "abilities" sound familiar to you, well, you've already got one rather large reveal (about 100 pages in) figured out. In the first three quarters of the book, we meet an interesting group of teen residents with various psychological conditions. We experience life in the institution through Alison's fresh, first-person voice (and through her heightened senses), and it's a beautiful voice. There's lovely prose living in these pages.We also meet young, unconventional Dr. Faraday, a psychologist who takes great interest in Alison's case. He identifies her condition, helps her define her sensory abilities, lets her voice her fears, and insists that she is completely sane. As a confidant to Alison and an enigma to me, Faraday's character is enjoyable.There's nothing in the majority of this book to indicate it's anything other than a contemporary psychological drama. Fortunately, I had read the back cover, which calls it "traditional science fiction." I read most of the book wondering when the sci-fi element would show up.And then, show up it did, in spades. And then, far too soon ... the book ended.To justify the plot, I can only compare this novel to THE TWILIGHT ZONE, but the comparison is a compliment. In a way, this novel is genius. That said, if I hadn't read the back cover (or ever watched THE TWILIGHT ZONE), I might have felt tricked. This book certainly has the most jarring plot twist I've ever read, because it doesn't merely twist the plot. It changes the genre and the tone and essentially everything. Since I'd been waiting for something like this to happen, I merely thought, and kept reading.The problem isn't with the twist; it's with the location of the twist. If I could give half-stars, Ultraviolet might get 3.5, mostly for this reason. All the newly introduced elements of plot and storyworld and character beg for development. I want to care about these elements as much as I cared about the first 200+ pages, while Alison struggled with fellow inmates and her parents and other authority figures and her own scared, confused self. But I can't care as much as I want to, because they're on the page in a glorious reveal and then the pages run out.However. There is a sequel. Excellent. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Good, with flaws *by R***R on Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 18, 2021* I'm way older than the target audience of this novel, but I have a keen interest in the quality of the literature that is produced for our young people so, as well as books written for adults, I read a fair bit of YA fiction. Some of it - that written by John Green and Philip Pullman, for example - has plenty to challenge older readers as well as the youth audience. Anyway, I read 'Ultraviolet'.To start with, let's be clear: I like this book. That said, it annoys me.The first half of the book is the best by far. The protagonist is an effectively realised character about whom we soon come to care. The supporting cast is adequate, but it is Ali who monopolises our interest. This young woman has a selection of non-standard, but real, perception conditions that she has never fully understood or learned to cope with. These differences, and the way she, and the world, react to them are the real story here.The second half introduces a science fiction plot line which should appeal to me as a lifelong SF reader. It doesn't: it is trite, unoriginal and simplistic. It is faux, plastic science fiction written as if by someone who has barely read any and knows little of what has been written in the genre by other authors. I know the book is written for a youthful audience but that target age group both expects and deserves more sophisticated fare.My other gripe is the inexcusable number of typos in the text. I don't know if the writer or the editor would like to take responsibility for the absolute failure in the proof-reading of this book, but someone needs a kick in the backside. Fix it - it's appalling.I've devoted more space to complaints than praise, haven't I? Don't let that put you off, it *is* a book worth reading, but that is because of the interesting viewpoint character, not the disappointing story.I like 'Ultraviolet' (I've read it twice) but it makes me cross. 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