Between by Jessica Warman is a thrilling novel with romance and drama is one of the most unique ideas in teen fiction. The book is a page turner that you can’t put down. Jessica has written a book that will make you cry and laugh at the same time.
Between begins with a regular eighteenth birthday slumber party on a yacht for a snobby stuck up girl. When they go to sleep, there are seven people on the boat, but when they wake up Liz, the snobby stuck up girl, is missing. They find her dead body floating in the water. What they don’t know is that Liz is there watching them. She’s stuck in Limbo. She lives among them but they can’t hear or see her. With her is Alex Berg, a student at her school who died months ago.
After Liz dies she doesn’t have clear memories of her life. She spends most of the book trying to figure out how she dies and remembering her life’s memories. During this time she finds her life was getting twisted before she died. Her boyfriend had been cheating on her with her best friend/stepsister and she found some disturbing pictures of herself that she doesn’t remember taking. She finds that her life had been full of lies and her dad had been cheating on her mom before she died. She also finds that she played a part in Alex’s death and that she wasn’t as good of a kid as she thought she was. She realizes the changes she should have made in her life and herself.
The book is about moving on, family and forgiveness. Jessica Warman has written a couple other young adult novels. A couple that look really interesting are Breathless and Where the Truth Lies.
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