Hi! I’m Dani. I’m a former professional wedding photographer, an avid reader, a wife, a momma, a lover of Jesus, a flip-flop fan, a traveler, a life-long student, a gamer, a TV addict, and the primary reviewer here at Refracted Light. I’m attached to either Photoshop, a good book or one of my kids at any given time. I hate to cook and love take-out. Blue M&Ms taste the best. I love to sing at the top of my lungs when driving in the car. Oatmeal chocolate chip cookies are the best medicine for anything that ails you. I love finding love through my lens; that sweet, true, yet fleeting thing that’s captured for eternity by a simple press of the shutter. Amazing. I adore it. I decided to start this review blog, mostly for myself as a pet project and also to just share my love of YA books with those who might be interested. Reviews are always subjective. Books resonate with people for many different reasons based on one’s circumstances, personal history, life stages, worldview, and preferences…so here I’ll be sharing those books that spoke to me and the ones that…well…didn’t. So I hope you’ll stick around and read along with me! I love finding fellow book lovers to discuss my favorite reads with!
Hello, I’m Heather. I am a mom of two boys, a wife of one man, and a lover of people in general. I am a Mary Kay sales director by trade and a book addict by choice. My degree is in English Education and I don’t think I have ever really outgrown YA lit! I have known Dani, the creator of this blog, for about 13 years now…we were actually roommates in college. We have always connected over our choices of books and so this is the perfect creative outlet for our mutual passions. As a guest reviewer on Refracted Light, I will share my thoughts on books I read. Please take my reviews for what they are…my opinion. =) Everyone loves different books for different reasons. My reviews are just the way a book spoke to me. I welcome discussion so please let me know what you think!
Howdy there. I’m Aly: a transplanted southern belle, wife, sister, daughter, aunt, proficient eater of fruit, and culinary dabbler. The correct outdoor temperature needs to be between 65 and 80 degrees Fahrenheit. Inversely, I adore snow. While I won’t do a happy dance over cooking, I find baking to be awesomely relaxing and fun (and DELISH). I’m a slight bit of a technology nerd, as I work in the telecom industry. My requested birthday meal is lasagna, garlic bread and ice cream cake. (My mom makes the best one with vanilla ice cream, whipped cream, fudge sauce and crushed Oreos. *drools*) 
What’s with the name Refracted Light?
Soooo….you might be wondering about the title of the blog? It seems lacking in cutesy, bookish witticisms, eh? It actually comes from a poem by Tolkien called “Mythopoeia.” My favorite part of the poem says,
“Man, Sub-creator, the refracted light
through whom is splintered from a single White
to many hues, and endlessly combined
in living shapes that move from mind to mind.
Though all the crannies of the world we filled
with Elves and Goblins, though we dared to build
Gods and their houses out of dark and light,
and sowed the seed of dragons, ’twas our right
(used or misused). The right has not decayed.
We make still by the law in which we’re made.”
I just LOVE this stanza as it infers God as the creator of all and man as following in His image as creators of myth, legend, worlds, histories, languages and creatures. We as creations also have been given the ability and license to create, and that is a wondrous gift. We are all refractions of the ultimate Creator.
So yeah, that’s where that came from.
Thanks for stopping by!
