There’s not much plot here, but readers will relish the opportunity to climb inside Autumn’s head. Even secondary characters are well-rounded, with their own histories and motivations. Autumn’s coming-of-age is sensitively chronicled, with a wide range of experiences and events shaping her character. But on August 8, everything changes, and Autumn has to rely on all her strength to move on. In the summer after graduation, Autumn and Finny reconnect and are finally ready to be more than friends. Growing up, Autumn and Finny were like peas in a pod despite their differences: Autumn is “quirky and odd,” while Finny is “sweet and shy and everyone like him.” But in eighth grade, Autumn and Finny stop being friends due to an unexpected kiss. They drift apart and find new friends, but their friendship keeps asserting itself at parties, shared holiday gatherings and random encounters. The finely drawn characters capture readers’ attention in this debut.Īutumn and Phineas, nicknamed Finny, were born a week apart their mothers are still best friends. The discovery of Maddy’s secret involvement in a school scandal weaves a mild thriller plot into the building romance. She seems to fool her family and friends, but can she convince herself to be Maddy? The effort, described in hyperbolic prose that seems determined to tell instead of show, becomes more difficult when Alex begins pressuring her to resume Maddy’s physical relationship, and Ella’s best friend, Josh, proclaims his love for the Ella he presumes dead. Although she quickly realizes the truth about Maddy, Ella pretends to be her twin sister in an effort to trade her own life for the life Maddy should have had.
In an implausible story straight out of Hollywood, Ella, not certain who she is when she wakes up after the accident, assumes she is Maddy, especially when Maddy’s boyfriend, Alex, is at her side. As the two argue over their growing separation, Ella crashes the car, killing Maddy instantly. Ella has also become accustomed to bailing Maddy out, so it’s no surprise when Maddy needs Ella to pick her up from a party. A fatal accident leaves one twin sister dead and the other trying to figure out her identity.Įlla has always been smart, quiet and artistic, while her identical twin sister, Maddy, became part of the social elite once they reached high school.
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