Through Her Eyes

Through Her Eyes

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Every ghost has a story to tell.

The last place Tansy Piper wants to be is stuck in Cedar Canyon, Texas, in the middle of nowhere, with a bunch of small-town kids. But when her mother decides to move to the desolate West Texas town, Tansy has no choice but to go along. Once there, Tansy is immediately drawn to the turret of their rickety old house, a place she soon learns h...more
Hardcover, 384 pages
Published April 5th 2011 by HarperTeen
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Shelley aka Gizmo's Reviews
Jennifer Archer’s Through Her Eyes, tells the haunting story of Sixteen year old Tansy Piper who has been forced to move, yet again, because of her mother’s desire to put the past behind her. Tansy, her mother, and her grandfather Papa Dan, end up moving to the southwest and a small town in Texas called Cedar Canyon.

Tansy’s mother is a writer who goes by the name of Millicent Moon. Supposingly she is the female version of Stephen King, without all the fame and fortune that goes along with it. Mi...more
Mundie Moms & Mundie Kids
Jennifer Archer's writing is refreshing, poetic and realistic. It's one of those stories that makes you wonder if this town is real and if the ghost stories really happened. I think Jennifer's portrayal of a small TX town was spot on. I felt like I was apart of the story and the world in which Jennifer created.

I was really captivated with the way Jennifer wove together history with modern day and added that perfect paranormal twist to her story. I was so caught up in how Tansy, her grandfather P...more
Reading Teen
Tansy Piper was sick of moving all over the country with her mother, author of horror novels, and her Papa Dan, who hadn't spoken in a long time now. More than anything, Tansy just wanted to plant some roots, make some friends, and live a normal life. But when her family move to small-town Cedar Canyon, Texas, normal was not what Tansy found. Almost immediately, Tansy was drawn to certain things about her new house; a crystal, an old pocket watch, and a journal with beautiful poems that almost s...more
Chelsea Nicole
I read the very first page of this book and decided there was no way I was going to read another book abut a ghost. I tend to stereotype them and consider them to be much of the same thing: girl has no friends but somehow gets in contact with a ghost; ghost becomes her friend; they fall in love; girl has to choose whether she wants to be a ghost and blah blah blah.
I decided to give it another chance and I have to say that I enjoyed it very much. Tansy has to live in Hick Town, Nowhere; populati...more
Gemma
So, this was a pretty okay book.

So why only 3 stars?

Because it was only okay. Never beyond.

The problem is not with the story. No. The story here was quite good, and fairly well executed. A ghost story, in an old house in a small town in Texas, with snippets about photography and glimpses into the past, and moments that reminded me of Inception (then again, what doesn't these days?) It's complex and layered, and theoretically good.

Theoretically?

Yes. But it didn't actually come off as good.

The...more
Linda Bss
Catherine had always hated her life with living in a rusty trailer, she was much too beautiful to sell her body for twenty dollars as her mom did and she set her eye's on seducing Frank White by telling him that she was pregnant but once they were married, she would suddenly have a misscarriage. Now, Catherine was dissatified with Frank and she took lovers with out caring if she got caught but her affairs should Frank seek a divorce would leave her penniless she then got the bright idea of shoot...more
Vanilla FayeRae
This book made me want to read it since I saw the cover. What I liked the most about the cover was the way the title is a bit blurred around the edges.

It made me think of photography and how some things are focused and some are not. It's the same with life, some things are just out of our reach.

I believe Tansy is a very interesting character that you rarely find in a book. She is very balanced. She has bad and good traits in an equal measure and I must admit that at first I was reluctant about...more
Debbie
3.5 stars
I have mixed feelings about this book which is why it didn't get a higher rating. I couldn't wait to finish it and find out what would happen in the end. Would Tansy choose to stay in the real world or would Henry suck her into his own world? On the other hand I did not really like Tansy all that much. I admired the care she took of her grandpa Dan but she was so judgmental of everyone around her that it grated on me. I know moving around is hard but to so meanly label people based on f...more
Skye
Tansy Piper's mother is like the female Stephen King, so for inspiration for her books they end up moving a lot. The latest move is from San Francisco to Cedar Canyon Texas where she mopes about hating the small town life. It's the kind of town where all the teens her age grew up with each other since kindergarten so she feels left out. Fighting loneliness she also struggles with the grief of her grandfather's dementia. Not to mention her new house is said to be haunted, it even has a turret and...more
Melanie Goodman
Tansy Piper’s mother writes horror novels, and each must be written in the place in which it is set. Tansy is a reluctant nomad, forced around the country according to her mother’s writing needs. Her newest home is in a small Texas town where her grandfather grew up. Lucky for her mother, the house they are renting is said to be haunted. One couldn’t ask for a better setting in which to place a scary story. Unfortunately for Tansy, the ghost seems to have its eyes on her.

Though she has a rough t...more
MaryBookSwarm
Tansy and her mother have lived all over the place because her mother, a horror writer, likes to get a feel for a place when she's writing about it in her novels. Tansy, on the other hand, wants to be in San Francisco, the last place they lived and where her friends (and potential boyfriend) live. But they moved to Cedar Canyon in Texas, where her grandfather, Papa Dan, grew up. And, of course, they move into a creepy, haunted house. Tansy's mom is ecstatic. Tansy...not so much.

The family dynami...more
Missie
Initially, I was excited to read Through Her Eyes because it was YA paranormal story with an interesting premise that takes place in Texas. Unfortunately, the story didn't quite meet my expectations.

Because her mother is a best selling author who likes to live in the same location as the one in her next book, Tansy relocates often. Cedar Canyon, the small town she lands in, is the same one her grandfather grew up in. Tansy quickly discovers that adjusting to her new surrounding isn't as easy as...more
Kari
Through Her Eyes



A ghost story mixed with a realistic contemporary setting and an intricate weaving of two different time periods makes Through Her Eyes a very haunting and beautiful read. Tansy is a character many will relate to, an outsider as a product of her constant moving but still someone who wants to make connections with others. The small town Texas setting plays a large role in the book, and the overall story line is very well thought out and in depth. Rapt with deeper nuances and meani...more
Sherri
I am surprised at how much I enjoyed this supernatural/mystery YA novel. Tansy Piper, 16, has just moved for the upteenth time due to her mom's desire to write her successful horror novels in locations that inspire the dark moods of her writing. This time they end up in a rundown creepy Victorian house with a turret outside Cedar Canyon, Texas, a small town in the middle of nowhere. The house is rumored to be haunted by the ghost of teenage Henry who committed suicide 60 years ago. Tansy also li...more
Marisa
Tansy Piper is the daughter of horror author Millicent Moon (who is a female Stephen King without all the money and movie deals). Millicent has moved Tansy all over because she believes it helps her to live in the place she is setting her book in. This time they are moving to Cedar Canyon, Texas. Tansy is tired of moving and not being able to stay around and make friends. She also lives with her grandpa, Papa Dan, who has some kind of dementia.
When Tansy and her family get to Texas she is drawn...more
Kat Heckenbach
Maybe it was because the book I *tried* reading right before this one had zero voice, but it was the voice of this one that really pulled me in when I first picked up the book. I can't say it stayed as strong through the whole book, but it definitely continued to play a role in keeping me reading. The middle of the book does lag a bit--just a bit--but there is a lot of "plant and pay-off" going on (little details that end up being important later on).

I very much connected with the main character...more
Book Twirps
Tansy Piper is not happy about moving to Cedar Canyon, Texas. The small, podunk hometown of her grandfather does not suit her at all. But when her mother, an author of horror novels, decides to move there to help with the setting of her new book, Tansy has no choice but to go. Tansy has been carted around by her flighty mother for most of her life since her father and grandmother were killed in an automobile accident. Now, she and her grandfather are carted around from city to city, settling onl...more
Karen
I have been thinking for a little while on what I would say about this book and I am still a little unsure.

I liked the book, but I am not sure how to describe it w/out giving too much away.

I know that the prologue drew me in immediately and the first couple of chapters also. I literally couldn't sleep the first night I started it because I kept thinking about the book. I would fall asleep and then wake up an hour or two later and read a few chapters and then fall back asleep again.

This story i...more
Elaine
When I was a kid, I loved to curl up with a good ghost story in the summer. Then, I hit my teen years and all that was available was slasher books like Christopher Pike. Thank goodness Teen Literature has grown since the 1980s!

This was a good, old-fashioned ghost story. The creepy elements never got too creepy, and the book kept you guessing on a lot of things until the very end. I can't give this five stars because there were some places where I thought the writing didn't quite flow, and becaus...more
Melissa
Tansy Piper has always moved frequently. Living for a short time in whatever town or city her mother's latest novel is set in. She has never had time to make friends until the last move when she lived in San Francisco and met her friend Hailey. Now her mother is once more moving her across the country to Cedar Canyon, Texas, the town where her grandfather grew up. Once again leaving her friends behind, and now having to deal with her grandfather's failing health, Tansy finds herself living in a
...more
Avery
*May contain spoilers*

First off, can we take a moment to appreciate the gorgeousness that is this cover? Seriously- look at those eyes! I can totally get over the fact that the cover has very little to do with the book! Okay, gushing aside...

While I really enjoyed the fact that this book was quite original in its storyline and writing style, I did not enjoy the fact that it was a quite frustrating, to say the least, book. I am the type of person who needs concrete answers and this book is not o...more
Rebecca
The premise of Through her Eyes sounded incredibly amazing and I was really looking forward to reading it. Unfortunately, Through her eyes wasn’t exactly what I had expected it to be so I didn’t enjoy it as much as I thought I would have.
When I started reading Through her Eyes I found it quite hard to get into, and then there were patches of interesting parts. Overall, it was quite an up and down shift in the interest levels for me. I did find some parts of the book to be a bit spooky and I thou...more
Courtney Vail
I did love the concept of this book. It was different and fresh, and the mystery element was solid and intoxicating. But, I really can't give this book 5 STARS because it had an agonizingly slow buildup, and I really couldn't stand Tansy, at all. She was so jaded and pissy around everyone, except her grandfather. Even when people were nice, she was always suspicious and cold in return. Her skepticism usually had her dead wrong about people and their motives. I know she's on guard and is hesitant...more
Cathy/The Crazy Bookworm
Through Her Eyes was different for me. Overall I enjoyed it but there were parts throughout the book that fell flat for me. At first, I had a hard time connecting with the story. It was inconsistent. It started off slow, then picked up, but then slowed down and it continued like that throughout the book. However there was some great traits about the book.

The Cover. The cover of Through Her Eyes is stunning. The Pale white face jumps out at you and the boldness of her eyes are haunting but beauti...more
Jessica
This book was wonderful! I was completely sucked in after the first few chapters.

I couldnt inmagine being Tansy and having to move from town to town, just for her mothers writting. I do think she is a little selfish. Not considering Tansy's feelings. Its no wonder she relates to Henry and his darker side, why she almost understands him even though he's not there to speak the real words.

Halfway through, I begin to worry about Tansy. She seems almost to deep, but the things she is uncovering are i...more
Jen Bigheart (I Read Banned Books)
4 Stars

Wow, did I ever identify with Tansy! I moved all over the place as a kid and each every time it was more and more difficult. Tansy has moved house to house while her mother writes one hit novel after another. Now that she is in high school, friends aren't as easy to come by. In BFE Cedar Canyon, Texas, no one seems to be in the market for a new friend. In fact, everyone seems to enjoy making Tansy's life a little more miserable every day. It also doesn't help that she supposedly lives in...more
Mechele Raleigh
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Through her eyes

By: Jennifer Archer

Summary-
Sixteen-year-old Tansy Piper moves with her grandfather and her mother, a horror writer, to the setting of her mother's next book--a secluded house outside of a tiny, desolate West Texas town. Lonely and upset over the move, Tansy escapes into her photography and the dark, seductive poems she finds hidden in the cellar, both of which lure her into the mind and world of a mysterious, troubled young man who died sixty years earlier.(Goodreads)

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Lauren
Through Her Eyes was a really good read in many ways. But i feel like I have to explain it in parts.

PART 1: CHARACTERS

Our main character is Tansy Piper. Her entire life has been a blur of different cities and different faces. Her best friend is her Grandfather Papa Dan, and she is sort of an outcast/outsider; which is to be expected. When she gets to her newest house in Cerder Cannion, she has already desided that she doesnt like it there.

Next we have Tate. He is the love interest. Adorable, sw...more
Eva
Interesting story about girl loving photographing and when she moves she starts to see black&white through her contact lenses on camera and is more drawn to the absolutely different world of the past.
I have to say that I was really interested to read such a story with this theme and it was really worth-trying to pick this book. If you love books full of scenes where you just can't take your eyes off of that book because how thrilling it is, love stories where are happening unexpecting thing...more
Robin Israel
This book is about a girl whos mom is a famous author. She writes the haunted and scary type stories. The way she wites her boks is, wherever she wants her book to take place, she will move to the place that best suits her. So its turns out that house they move into is the house that her grandpa dan used to live in. when he was kid. Aperently there is a creepy story abut a boy named Henry who killed himself by jumping off of a bridge. So the first thing that the main character tansy wants to do...more
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At the age of ten, Jennifer Archer made up her mind to become a writer. Then she grew up, became “sensible,” and earned a business degree with a minor in accounting instead. After years of trying to find her way through a confusing maze of debits and credits she realized that, for her, accounting was no more sensible than becoming a World Federation wrestler. So in 1993, she enrolled in a creative...more
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