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Claire Merle

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The Glimpse (2012) 161 Exemplare
The Fall (2013) 27 Exemplare
My Backward Life (2020) 5 Exemplare

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What a story! A teenager, Louise attends a gig on Friday night and she wakes up on Thursday morning of the next week. Where did her six days of her life go? Does she have amnesia or is she even alive? Her best friend Chrissy is not talking to her anymore and a boy named Dylan, whom she has seen only once, texts her to meet up to give her a letter which she had written to herself. The only thing she remembers is walking out of the concert and Dylan trying to save her life. How did she live six days of her life with no recollection of what had happened?

I loved the book! The chemistry between Dylan and Louise is so enticing. When Louise started going backwards I really thought that she was going to fix things right there, but she had once chance to live and was smart not enough not to change it then. I thought the book ended too soon. Claire has such an imagination and attention to detail. This story must have been hard work. It was a wonderful read and I highly recommend it.
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yshd91 | 1 weitere Rezension | Aug 3, 2020 |
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This book kept me gripped from the beginning.

The story tells us of Louise Doors, who fainted and then woke up 7 days later with no knowledge of the past week. She then spends the next week moving backwards in time and needs to try to figure out what happened in the last week of her life.

Very good YA story that kept me interested.
 
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miamismartgirl09 | 1 weitere Rezension | Jul 14, 2020 |
the h is awesome, cool under pressure, and smart. In the recent releases the h are more marie sueish than actually kick-ass and this breaks the mold to the point where It's hard to believe a 16 year old would be so mature and logical all the time, but still awesome.
 
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otkac001 | Jan 20, 2019 |
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Ana is Pure or she thought she was until she ordered the death certificate of her mother thinking her father was covering something up. Now she knows he covered it up for her own benefit because her mother was depressed. She had to be if she died from exhaust fumes. So her father, a powerful person who first developed the Pure tests, must have changed her test to make her look Pure right? Well two years later her father got off the charges, she is considered a Sleeper which means her disease might become active, and she's facing the potential of Jasper accepting her to be joined (married) with her but if not she will be sent to live with the Crazies.

I think I need to clarify some things first. In the time it's about thirty years from now. The people who have parents or ancestors with depression, anger problems, etc are called Crazies. The people who don't have those genes are Pure so they are joined with other Pure people to preserve the race. Towards the end you will fully realize that the government, unsurprisingly, is crazy. Well at least the psychiatrists are. You will get very angry at them as well as Ana's father who I wish to crush into a million pieces. He's the worst father and husband. He believes his own crap when he knows it's not true. Or maybe he doesn't know and he just goes with it all to keep his daughter's best interests at heart. Ugh. "Best interests at heart" usually means they are being controlling and manipulative.

Jasper is actually a pretty nice guy but he knows something that can get him in real big trouble. He thinks it's why his brother was killed. They didn't really say he was killed but that he fell off a cliff and really is that believable to you? Governments are always evil in the future. I don't know how Ana didn't get this right away. I guess she never grew up with dystopian books or action films like the rest of us.

Jasper mysteriously disappears after he tells her she's in trouble. Worried for him she does the unthinkable and goes to search for him in the most dangerous place of all. She learns things that will change her way of life an thinking forever. There's this family that helps her out. Lila she meets first. By the description you may think she's a Goth because she wears all black and her eye makeup according to Ana looks like a mask. She's actually very sweet and has Ana's back. Lila is her first connection to this mysterious person who can lead her to Jasper's whereabouts and what is really going on in the world.

So I loved this book. I pick the best books don't I? I usually love my books. With this book I was completely mesmerized and wondering how things were going to turn out. I read this book straight through. Five hours of epicness. I'm wondering how this book isn't the talk of he town. Goodreads should have a ridiculous amount of ratings and reviews but there's not nearly as much as there should be. It did just come out in June but when a book is good everyone knows it. I thought things were going to end so differently. Merle through me for a loop. Series books or sequels and such usually end with a just a horrible pain in your chest because the cliffhanger was like WHAT THE!!!! It will continue and I hope I find out soon what it's called and what the date is. I'm sure it'll be in a year and that always ruins me. *sigh* But the end was really... hopeful and happy. I loved it. Finally! A series or whatever that doesn't completely haunt my dreams! And the author I must say... where have you been? This is your first book. Dude. I could have read this and more by now. I'm just saying. I'm expecting a lot of great things to come with Claire Merle. I'm excited!
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AdrianaGarcia | 11 weitere Rezensionen | Jul 10, 2018 |

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