The Stats
📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚
BOOK: Neverworld Wake
AUTHOR: Marisha Pessl @marishapessl
Publisher: Delacorte Press @delacortepress
Stars: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Published: June 5, 2018
The Review
✨ The Title/Cover Draw:
- I am still catching up with middle grade and YA books from a few years ago. This one was highly recommended by @alexandra_roselyn and I immediately added it to my TBR.
💜 What I liked:
- The way this book was written was so poetic and intriguing, I finished it in a day and could not put it down. Each chapter, each wake gives a new piece to the puzzle of “What happened to Jim?”
😱 What I didn’t like:
- There were some minor plot holes but overall this book was a fav!
💁♀️ The Characters:
- Beatrice, Martha, Whitley, Connor and Kipling are stuck in a time loop with a deadly decision.
🚦 The Ending:
- It’s very much a twist, you think you know…but do you?
💭 Consider if you like:
- YA Fantasy with time bending plot points.
All thoughts and opinions are my own.
📘 Summary:
Once upon a time, back at Darrow-Harker School, Beatrice Hartley and her five 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.