Earthbound
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- 49,00 kr
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- 49,00 kr
Publisher Description
If love can survive death, are soul-mates eternal?
Eighteen-year-old Tavia is the only survivor of a plane crash that killed her parents. Grieving and lonely, she starts having strange visions; of a boy she’s never met but feels compulsively drawn to. A boy who tells her to do things she never dreamed of.
Tavia begins to suspect that secrets are being kept from her, and that her kindly aunt and uncle know more than they are letting on. Was the plane crash really an accident? Or is Tavia part of something bigger than she ever imagined?
With only her instincts and long-time crush, Benson, to rely on, Tavia must decide where her destiny lies, and who with.
Reviews
“[Pike’s] solid writing, particularly in her descriptions, will have readers hooked” – Publishers Weekly
"[A] promising start to a new series that offers history, romance, and action…." – Kirkus Reviews
About the author
Aprilynne Pike has been spinning faerie stories since she was a child with a hyperactive imagination. She completed her BA in creative writing at the age of twenty at Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho. Aprilynne currently lives with her husband and three kids in Arizona. You can visit her online and read her blog at www.aprilynnepike.com.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Pike (the Wings series) opens a new series with a plane crash, and soon lays out more themes popular in recent YA inexplicable survival, loss of memory, an unknown stalker, apocalyptic showdown, and the protagonist's transcendent secret identity. Tavia, the 18-year-old survivor, is in rehab and finishing her senior year online. She has time to look at the world with attentive eyes, and what she sees is often unnerving: glowing triangles on the historic houses of Portsmouth, N.H., or pedestrians who flicker. She tries to attribute these visions to the brain injury she sustained in the crash, but she can't dismiss the stalker with a blond ponytail so easily. Nor do the important people in her life Elizabeth, an uncannily insightful therapist, and Benson, a sympathetic library intern encourage her to ignore the growing strangeness. Though Pike's plot points may riff a little too blatantly on the zeitgeist, her solid writing, particularly in her descriptions, will have readers hooked. Tavia's low-tech revelation via ChapStick works better than any superbattle to convey what's at stake in her life and choices. Ages 12 up.
