Soulstruck
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- $15.99
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- $15.99
Publisher Description
Seventeen-year-old Rachel Ferguson is trying to get struck by lightning. Hopefully it will lead to finding her soul mate, like it did for her mother. And then maybe her mom will be as devoted to her as she is to her lightning strike survivors group.
When Rachel discovers letters written by her mother's soul mate—the man she thought was her father—she begins to question everything she's always believed, including soul mates, fate, and even her mother. No longer sure of its power, she decides to quit chasing lightning.
Rachel feels abandoned and alone—her best friend has ditched her, her boyfriend has dumped her, and a confrontation with her mom only made things worse. At least she still has her friend Jay—in fact, their growing attraction to each other seems to be the only good thing happening.
But when her relationship with Jay starts to unravel, too, the impulse to get struck by lightning resurfaces.
And there's a thunderstorm coming.
Set in Wellfleet, Cape Cod, in the off-season, Soulstruck is about the search for love and the risk of losing it while waiting for destiny to happen.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Seventeen-year-old Rachel Ferguson and her mother, Naomi, were nomads before settling in the beach town of Wellfleet, Mass., when they inherited Rachel's grandfather's house. A few years later, Naomi has resumed her unusual work of running a lightning-strike survivors group since she was struck, she has been able "to see anyone's soul mate almost as simply as the rest of us could see someone's eye color." Naomi recognizes that this knowledge is as daunting as it is enlightening, and she blocks herself from seeing Rachel's soul mate. Less interesting are Rachel's relationships with Reed, a love interest who is withdrawn due to a past trauma; Serena, her best friend who has recently joined a new clique; and Jay, her other best friend and blooming romantic interest. When Rachel finds a secret box of letters from her late father, it ignites a search for her own identity. This second novel by Sinel (The Fix) can be constrained by expository dialogue and an overly internal narration that loses sight of its larger, inventive premise. Still, the book's hint of the supernatural is successfully balanced by more down-to-earth insights into the complications of love and fate. Ages 12 up.
