Fade into You
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- $229.00
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- $229.00
Descripción editorial
When two girls join forces to break up their best friends’ toxic relationship, they start to fall for each other in this swoony ’90s romance with “sizzling chemistry” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) from bestselling author Amber Smith and Sam Gellar, perfect for fans of She Gets the Girl.
Bird and Jessa don’t have much in common. Bird is an aspiring poet, still finding herself after a transformative summer away at writing camp. Jessa lives for the discovery of new music, using it to block out the dysfunction waiting for her at home. They would never have crossed paths if it weren’t for one shared problem: Their two best friends have started dating, and the relationship is threatening to ruin their senior year.
Tired of coming second to their friends’ romance, the girls come to the only logical conclusion: they have to break their friends up. But the more time Bird and Jessa spend scheming, the more they start to realize they might have more in common than they thought.
Set in the late ’90s in a world full of change as much as possibility, Jessa and Bird relearn what it means to love themselves and receive love in return, and to dream for a future they never imagined.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In 1999, two white-cued high school seniors work to disrupt their best friends' relationship in this simultaneously uplifting and unflinching romance, which empathetically depicts instances of disordered eating and suicidal ideation. When aspiring poet Bird returns from a summer writing workshop—during which she tentatively embraced her bisexuality—she's shocked to learn that her best friend Kayla experienced dramatic weight loss and is now dating gamer Dade. Meanwhile, music-obsessed lesbian Jessa feels that her bestie Dade has abandoned her since entering the relationship. Convinced that the romance is bad news for all involved, Jessa and Bird team up to sabotage their friends' love lives. At the same time, the girls fall for each other, taking comfort in their bond as they contend with personal challenges: Bird struggles navigating fraught relationships with her family, including her homophobic stepsister, while Jessa fears for her bipolar older sister's safety, citing her sibling's violent outbursts and threats of self-harm. Married authors Gellar, making her debut, and Smith (The Way I Am Now) expertly juxtapose wistful 1990s trappings against period-specific societal attitudes surrounding queer identity, mental illness, and topical issues including the Columbine High School massacre and the AIDS epidemic. The protagonists' sympathetic characterizations and sizzling chemistry act as a balm for the topics addressed. Ages 14–up.
