Avery Berman’s Reviews > Radium Halos > Status Update

This book is very exciting. I like how the characters all seem so realistic and true. Their fear and their reactions are all so pure and normal. In some books, the characters are confident and witty and smart and no one likes the main character like that. We like someone that is the underdog and continues to go above and push through. That is why I love the characters for this book.

This book has a dark setting. A creepy mine that was abandoned and is left with traces of uranium that killed some miners. The setting sets the mood into a dark, scary plot. There is a lot of rain, which is a symbol that something must be sad or something bad is going to happen. And it is also night, where a lot of "evil" things are found. The setting really darkens the mood of the plot and makes it very interesting.