Hung Up
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3.4 • 5 Ratings
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- $8.99
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
Can you fall in love with a voice? This witty romance, told entirely through phone calls, chronicles the tale of a wrong number gone right.
It all started with a wrong number. The voicemails Lucy left on James’s phone were meant for someone else—someone who used to have James’s digits. But then when James finally answers and the two start to talk, a unique bond forms between the two teens.
Gradually Lucy and James begin to understand each other on a deeper level than anyone else in their lives. But when James wants to meet in person, Lucy is strangely resistant. And when her secret is revealed, he’ll understand why…
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
When a misdialed number brings Lucy and James together, they keep the conversation going, discussing school assignments, the weather, whether Lucy should wear skirts more often, and what James should do after his best friend starts dating his old girlfriend. Though their first attempt to meet in person (their Vermont towns are near each other) goes disastrously wrong, it also leads to more honest discussions about their lives. Tracy's premise is a great way to get these two high school seniors talking, flirting, and confiding without the pressures that could come from an in-person meeting, but Lucy's continuing refusal to let James in on what's causing her "limitations" grows frustrating. When she finally comes clean, the secret which is serious enough that keeping it makes sense creates additional complications. While Tracy (Crimes of the Sarahs) fully embraces her setup (the story unfolds almost entirely through the characters' over-the-phone chats and voice mail messages), James and Lucy's banter often feels self-conscious, as though they are actors exchanging dialogue rather than two teens in true conversation. Ages 14 up.
