Perception Post #2

    I am currently reading Perception by Kim Harrington. Perception is the sequel to a book I read last year,  called Clarity. Clarity "Clare" Fern's family is psychic. Her mother is a telepath, her brother  is a medium who can contact the dead, and she can touch objects and see into their past, like memories or emotions. In the sequel she is no longer the freak at her school, people want to be her fake friend. She thinks that her biggest problems are trying to figure out which friends are real and which boy to take to Homecoming. That is until a girl from her high school vanishes and her secret admirer becomes a creepy stalker. Her brother, Perry, is having a hard time coping with the fact that he was accused of murder (from previous book) and I found out that the reason he is acting strange and mean is because he has panic attacks when he leaves the house and a "ghost" is haunting him and trying to warn him about who killed the missing girl.
     I really like this book. I like how the author started the book. She starts the book with clare having some girls life in her hands and she is suppose to kill her. The first page ends with her stabbing something. When I read this it got me really interested and I wanted to finish the book right away. I also like this book because it is different than what I've read before. The author's style of writing is great and like how she builds the characters in the book.
     I think the main reason that Kim Harrington wrote this book was to continue the story. At the end of the first book there were a lot of questions that were never answered. In the sequel she answers most of the questions I had from the other book. She wanted to build the characters more, to explain why they acted a certain way in the other book.
    One of the themes that I think she put in there was what is ment to be a true friend. In Perception, Clare is adopted into the popular group and she gets to see first hand how they treat each other. Clare never really had any friends before. Now she has a tone and she has to figure out who actually like her and who just wants to use her.
     My favorite character is Perry, Clare's older brother. Perry is still dealing with the emotional trauma that he went through durring the summer. He was accused of murdering a teenage girl, when police found out that he was the last person to see her alive. Perry decides that he isn't ready to go off to college after that so he stays home. At first I didn't like the new version of Perry, he was mean, rude and sort of wacko. But later on, the author says that he has a panic attacks whenever he leaves the house. He doesn't want to tell anyone because he doesn't want to worry them. In this book I can see him start to grow stronger, he starts to confide in Clare and asks for help. He realizes that there isn't any shame in asking for help.