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SYNOPSIS:
Welcome to Gardnerville.
A place where no one gets sick. And no one ever dies. Except… There’s a price to pay for paradise. Every fourth year, the strange power that fuels the town exacts its payment by infecting teens with deadly urges. In a normal year in Gardnerville, teens might stop talking to their best friends. In a fourth year, they’d kill them. Four years ago, Skylar’s sister, Piper, was locked away after leading sixteen of her classmates to a watery grave. Since then, Skylar has lived in a numb haze, struggling to forget her past and dull the pain of losing her sister. But the secrets and memories Piper left behind keep taunting Skylar—whispering that the only way to get her sister back is to stop Gardnerville’s murderous cycle once and for all. WHY SHOULD YOU CHECK IT OUT? Skylar’s story sounds like a cross between Scott Westerfeld’s UGLIES series and Stephen King’s CELL. The big question of Piper’s whereabouts is apparently the driving force of the novel, but we really just need to know: does Skylar go crazy at the next fourth year or does someone go crazy on her? The cover is conflicting. On the one hand it is fairly straight-forward and doesn’t give any sense of what the novel might be about. But on the other hand, when looking closer, the branches of the tree are fairly bare… and yet the leaves are still green. Certainly curious!
This is author Kate Karyus Quinn’s sophomore offering, after ANOTHER LITTLE PIECE, which one reviewer called “a deliciously dark and savage debut”. We have to wonder if she is headed toward being the Stephen King of YA literature! EARLY REVIEWS SAY… Understanding the rules of Gardnerville and what keeps its cycles of madness turning is like deciphering an intricate puzzle or being locked in a dream—sometimes nightmarish, sometimes beautiful, and sometimes like one long, strange hallucination. (Publishers Weekly) Readers with patience and curiosity about Piper’s whereabouts, possible role in an uprising and folkloric connections, however, will add up the clues that lead to a startling ending. (Kirkus Reviews) NECESSARY DETAILS YA Dystopian http://www.harpercollins.com/9780062135964/dont-you-forget-about-me |
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