Alexandra said Jake's character, along with the others, will be further developed in the second book of this trilogy, Hades. He appears as a teenage boy, the same as Gabriel, but Jake has his underlying dark side. She told me that with Jake's character, there's more creative license involved. Along this vein, I asked Alexandra how difficult it was for her to write the part of Jake, the "bad-guy" of the story. On reading her work, the publisher liked the fresh outlook, again giving Halo a wider appeal. When I asked Alexandra about this she felt it was more a reflection of her upbringing in a Christian household and attending Christian schools than anything intentional on her part. Halo has been distinguished from other teen novels as being a "clean" read. I thought that she would say it was based on somewhere local to her in Australia, but Alexandra says that Venus Cove is an unidentifiable American town this was done to reach a wider market which makes sense being her North American debut. I started by asking where the name of Venus Cove, the fictional town that's the setting of her latest novel, Halo, came from. Alexandra is a well, but soft-spoken, young lady. Talking to an "eighteen-year-old phenom", as touted by her publicist, I wasn't sure what to expect really. I was quickly reassured by her down to earth, friendly manner and the oh-so-adorable Australian accent. I was a bit nervous as this was the first telephone/in person interview that I've done.
I had the very great pleasure of interviewing Alexandra Adornetto on Monday morning.
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