Like Never and Always by Ann Aguirre - OPTIONAL

Like Never and Always by Ann Aguirre, 335 pages.  Tor Teen (Macmillian), 2018.  $18.  

Content: Language: R (125+ swears); Mature Content: PG-13; Violence: PG-13.  

BUYING ADVISORY: HS- OPTIONAL  

AUDIENCE APPEAL: HIGH  

Liv and her best friend Morgan are in a serious car accident and when Liv wakes up she is inside Morgan’s body.  Liv’s own physical body is dead and Morgan is gone as well, so Liv has to figure out how to be Morgan.  Soon, Liv realizes that Morgan was keeping a lot of dark secrets as she was trying to solve the mystery of her mother’s death, so if Liv can’t keep ahead of the clues she doesn’t know what will become of her new life.  

I couldn’t put this book down.  At first it’s a little weird that they traded bodies, but the author does a great job building this story.  I enjoyed Liv, the mystery, and the romance.  The content is a high swear count, heavy make-out sessions that border on rated R content, drunk driving, suicide and a creepy relationship between a young teen and an older man.  

C. Peterson