My Second Life
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
Faye Bird's My Second Life is a pacy pageturner that asks: can you be held responsible now for something you did in a previous life?
Fifteen-year-old Ana has a good life--she has friends and a boy she likes and a kind mother--but still, she's haunted by her past; she knows that she lived once before as Emma and still misses her old family.
When, by chance in her life now, she meets a woman she knew then, a terrifying memory flashes through her mind of a young girl drowning. Was Emma responsible? And should Ana pay the price?
Consumed by guilt, Ana sets out to find out as much as possible about the person she was before and what she had done, only to discover that the family she misses so deeply had dark secrets of its own. To come to terms with her life now, she finally figures out how to let go of the past.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
What if you could be reborn to atone for the sins of your previous life? That's the idea behind this languid mystery from first-time author Bird. Emma Trees died at age 22 only to be resurrected six years later as Ana Ross. Now 15, Ana remembers her previous life with some longing, but it isn't until a chance meeting with a woman she knew as Emma that Ana realizes that she might have been brought back for a reason to seek forgiveness for the death of a child. Guilt-ridden and confused, Ana seeks to learn more about her life as Emma and the accident she believes she was responsible for, but she winds up unraveling a decades-old secret that leaves her reeling. Bird's story is slow to build, and though the concept is intriguing, little is done to flesh out Ana's character, or Emma's, beyond the traumatic event around which the story revolves. Ana's relationship with a boy from school evolves quickly but seems unnecessary, and what is meant to be the explosive revelatory scene doesn't pack the intended emotional punch. Ages 12 up.
