McMann, Lisa Crash, 233 pgs.
Simon Pulse, 2013. $9.99 Content: Language: R (69 swears; 13 F);
Mature Content: PG-13; Violence: PG.
Jules is a sixteen year old who lives above her family’s pizza
restaurant. Her father is a horder and
has deep depression, so when Jules begins to see a vision of a car crash she
worries that she might have a mental illness like her father. But as Jules breaks down the parts of the
vision, she realizes that the car crash that kills 9 people is going to happen
at a rival family pizza restaurant where the boy she loves lives. Jules decides that she has to do something
about her visions because if the event comes true she will not forgive
herself.
The story is fast paced and
hard to put down as Jules learns that the family rivalry between the two
restaurants has some dark secrets. The
adventure of trying to stop the crash is intense and the relationship between
Jules and Sawyer is fun to watch develop.
Jules siblings are great minor characters with humorous dialogue
also. This was such a fun book to read I
was super disappointed in the inappropriate use of the F word. It was out of context and makes the book inaccessible
to middle school kids who would love it.
HS-ADVISABLE. Reviewer, C.
Peterson.
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