Unraveling
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3.8 • 4 Ratings
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
Like The Forest of Hands and Teeth, Elizabeth Norris’s Unraveling blends realistic coming-of-age issues with a gripping science fiction world.
Unraveling’s heroine, sixteen-year-old Janelle Tenner, is used to having a lot of responsibility. She balances working as a lifeguard in San Diego with an intense academic schedule. Janelle’s mother is bipolar, and her dad is a workaholic FBI agent, which means Janelle also has to look out for her younger brother, Jared.
And that was before she died…and is brought back to life by Ben Michaels, a mysterious, alluring loner from her high school. When she discovers a strange clock that seems to be counting down to the earth’s destruction, Janelle learns she has twenty-four days to figure out how to stop the clock and save the planet.
The countdown has begun, but the biggest mystery is Ben himself—the boy who saved her life. What happens when she starts to fall for the one person she can’t trust?
A High-Stakes YA Thriller: With only twenty-four days until the end of the world, sixteen-year-old Janelle Tenner must unravel a conspiracy that’s bigger than she ever imagined.An Unforgettable Paranormal Romance: She should be focused on saving the planet, but she can’t stop thinking about Ben Michaels—the mysterious loner who brought her back from the dead.A Shocking Sci-Fi Mystery: The countdown clock is only the beginning. As Janelle digs deeper, she uncovers a secret truth about alternate universes that will change everything she knows about her world—and Ben’s.Complex Family Dynamics: Between her bipolar mother and her workaholic FBI agent father, Janelle has always been the responsible one. But saving the world might be one responsibility too many.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this complex SF mystery, debut writer Norris conceives of parallel universes that can inadvertently collide and destruct when portals between them are opened, a predicament facing Earth if 17-year-old Janelle Tenner's theory is correct. Janelle's father is a workaholic FBI agent, her bipolar mother is hardly functioning, and Janelle herself was just killed by an out-of-control car and brought back to life by classmate Ben Michaels. Janelle had always dismissed Ben as a stoner, but after he saves her, she is powerfully drawn to him. She also suspects that there might be a connection between recent deaths that her father has been investigating and her accident. When Norris's story works, it's a satisfying puzzle full of novel twists and provocative clues. A protective older sister and defiant FBI agent-in-training, Janelle is a courageous, layered heroine. But the chemistry between Janelle and Ben is faint, relying on familiar paranormal romance devices, and some plot elements are convoluted. A planned sequel will surely offer more challenges for Janelle, Ben, and planet Earth. Ages 13 up.
Customer Reviews
BEST BOOK EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I absolutly LOVE this book! I have the actual book because I don't have an i-pod toch or nano. It has some language but it is a teen book so I would recommend it to people 13 and up. It is an amazing story. It was almost immpossible to get me to put it down. I think this book would make an awsome movie. Maybe they will someday. I wonder if Elizabeth Norris will write a sequal. I'm dying to find out if Ben kept his promise and will come back for Janelle. This has deffinitly got to be one of the best love storys with sespense I've ever read!
Okay
The story was interesting but for Pete's sake, did there have to be so many F-bombs all through it? The story would not have suffered had they been left out. Would not recommend this for anyone under 14.