Who Is Mackie Spence?
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- 11,99 €
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- 11,99 €
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Jeremy's friend, Mackie Spence, seems different. She doesn't act like the same person he's grown up with all his life. And Jeremy would know. In the last year, he's paid close attention, as that funny little girl suddenly turned into a knockout. But now something is beyond weird. He didn't see much of Mackie during the summer that followed her near-drowning incident. But it's September, she's back at school, and Jeremy can't explain the changes in her. After all, he's a jock who understands science and math, not girls like Mackie. Still, when both of them volunteer at the wild animal shelter, he sees how huge, wounded birds calm to her touch. And that's just the beginning. When Jeremy, who's falling hard for Mackie, starts to feel protective of her, keeping an eye on her as she makes her way through the woods and coves of the small Puget Sound island where both of them grew up, he sees things he finds hard to believe. Mackie is still Mackie, but she's also someone beyond normal human experience. So who is she? Or...what is she? How can Jeremy protect Mackie from her fate? Should he even try, or is he interfering in something so big and so ancient that it doesn't even have a name? And while he may love Mackie, is he going where mere mortals are forbidden? To save the girl he loves, Jeremy must solve puzzles that will not only change his future, but the way he understands life, forever.
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In Kaymer's first novel, set on a small island in Puget Sound, 16-year-old Jeremy's life is refocused after his childhood friend Mackie nearly drowns during a boating excursion. Jeremy has fallen in love with Mackie at the wildlife center where they both volunteer, but ever since the accident during which Mackie was in the water for several hours and fell into a coma animals have been acting uncharacteristically respectful and calm around Mackie, and injured ones seem to exert a strange pull on her. Meanwhile, at school, Mackie's aggressive ex, Brody, is determined to win her back. When a Ouija board yields the cryptic message "Save Akeso," Mackie and Jeremy begin to wonder if it's her destiny to be a healer and what his role in her life is meant to be. While the novel's aura of otherworldly strangeness, dashed with moments of danger, is somewhat compelling, the characters and the budding romance between Jeremy and Mackie are only loosely sketched. The mystery surrounding Mackie is quite slow to build, and an oddly structured, tacked-on epilogue adds little in the way of closure. Ages 12 up.