Book Blurb:
NEVERWORLD WAKE by Marisha Pessl
Pub. Date: June 5, 2018
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Formats: Hardcover, eBook, audiobook
Pages: 336
Once upon a time, back at Darrow-Harker School, Beatrice Hartley and her six best friends were the cool kids, the beautiful ones. Then the shocking death of Jim—their creative genius and Beatrice's boyfriend—changed everything.
One year after graduation, Beatrice is returning to Wincroft—the seaside estate where they spent so many nights sharing secrets, crushes, plans to change the world—hoping she'll get to the bottom of the dark questions gnawing at her about Jim’s death. But as the night plays out in a haze of stilted jokes and unfathomable silence, Beatrice senses she’s never going to know what really happened.
Then a mysterious man knocks on the door. Blithely, he announces the impossible: time for them has become stuck, snagged on a splinter that can only be removed if the former friends make the harshest of decisions. Now Beatrice has one last shot at answers... and at life.
And so begins the Neverworld Wake.
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My Review:
4 Out Of 5 Stars
Genre: Another-World, Mystery, Supernatural, Teen--
Every time, we woke up in the exact same place, exact same time. We were songs on repeat, flies in a mason jar, echoing screams in a canyon that could not fade.
I actually did a buddy read with a friend for Neverworld Wake and after finishing, my friend asked me how I was ever going to write a review for this book. And that, that was a really good question. This is not a book that you can really describe, not easily broken down to analyze, but instead it was a (crazy) thought provoking journey. How can you express your feelings for a story that was so twisty and complicated and emotional without giving away anything that might ruin the experience for another reader? Well, here is my attempt to conquer that issue. Sorry this will be a short review but I don't want to ruin anything that Marisha created, but it is so much better to go into this book blindly with no preconceived ideas.
But when your boyfriend’s death remains unsolved, and you’re left staring into a black hole of guilt and the unknown?
There’s no movie or self-help book in the world to help you with that.
Except maybe The Exorcist.
This was a messy, crazy emotional read yet I could not put it down. I was sucked into the vortex of the Neverwake and could not escape, just like the five. I need to make the statement that these kids are messed up! Now did the Neverworld and it's endlessness drive them to be this way or were they always this was is the question I want answered.
I loved seeing every turn Bee took, how she made her choices and her changes to eventually get the outcome she was hoping for. I went into the book hoping that Bee would get answers about her boyfriend's death, but by the end of the book I was so turned around and on a different emotional point I did not care so much about that issue- there were bigger things at stake and I was so invested (and a little horrified).
This was Marisha's first YA book, but to be honest I think that age and labels are not necessary here. This was a messy psychological mysteryish book that kept the readers guessing and would appeal to any age (preferably older teens and up since there is some DARK content floating around here). Make sure to have a chunk of time set aside with no interruptions because you will want to just read and discover the answers.
Thanks Rockstar Book Tours for introducing me to a new author to stalk...I mean read.
Marisha Pessl grew up in Asheville, North Carolina, and now lives in New York City. Special Topics in Calamity Physics, her debut novel, was a bestseller in both hardcover and paperback. It won the 2006 John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize (now the Center for Fiction’s Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize), and was selected as one of the 10 Best Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review. Her new novel, Night Film, comes out August 20, 2013.
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