There’s not much plot here, but readers will relish the opportunity to climb inside Autumn’s head. Even secondary characters are well-rounded, with their own histories and motivations. Autumn’s coming-of-age is sensitively chronicled, with a wide range of experiences and events shaping her character.
But on August 8, everything changes, and Autumn has to rely on all her strength to move on.
In the summer after graduation, Autumn and Finny reconnect and are finally ready to be more than friends. Growing up, Autumn and Finny were like peas in a pod despite their differences: Autumn is “quirky and odd,” while Finny is “sweet and shy and everyone like him.” But in eighth grade, Autumn and Finny stop being friends due to an unexpected kiss. They drift apart and find new friends, but their friendship keeps asserting itself at parties, shared holiday gatherings and random encounters. The finely drawn characters capture readers’ attention in this debut.Īutumn and Phineas, nicknamed Finny, were born a week apart their mothers are still best friends. While Vesper and Sam are assumed white, secondary characters have varying skin tones.Īn extraordinary debut packed with richly drawn characters in a sure-to-entertain storyline. All storylines-the tournament, what happened with Sam’s ex, why the rules of magic are changing-tie together through flawless pacing and well-balanced action, leading to revelations that foster character growth. Even while planning to betray him and claim the unraveling, Vesper begins to fall for Sam. The deal is that she gets the cash prize, and he gets the unraveling to correct where things went wrong in his last relationship two years prior. Vesper teams up with Sam, a nonmagical Baseline human, who oversees her rigorous training at an MMA gym. She doesn’t know how to fight and is scared of her own dangerous powers but badly wants to undo her damaging past. After landing in San Francisco, she crosses paths with fellow Oddities and learns about a high-stakes cage-fighting tournament the winning Oddity gets $1 million and one unraveling (undoing something that has happened, altering the past). Ever since a horrifying incident borne of her lack of control, Vesper’s been a runaway loner.
She’s a Harbinger, capable of manifesting people’s fears. A girl with magical powers enters a brutal tournament, trying to win a chance to rewrite her past.Īs a child, Vesper loved stories about the Oddities and their magic.
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