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A review by kerrycat
A World Without You by Beth Revis
5.0
(For Romantic Times Book Reviews magazine, I gave this four stars and a Top Pick rating)
X-Men meets The Catcher in the Rye in this psychological thriller. Revis’ latest explores mental illness as readers take a hallucinatory ride with Bo, an immediately sympathetic character in a complex fantasy world where time and control elude him. His disturbing and heartbreaking story will leave readers breathless.
Bo lives at Berkshire Academy, a boarding school for teens with special powers, where he works with Dr. Franklin to gain control over his ability to travel through time. After he loses his girlfriend Sofia when he takes her into the past, he grows frustrated by everyone’s references to Sofia’s “suicide” and realizes that he must rescue her before she is lost forever. Phoebe, Bo’s younger sister, seems to be the only one who can help him verify reality and lead him to the truth. (RAZORBILL, Jul., 384 pp., $17.99, ISBN: 9781595147158, HC, 12 & Up)
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X-Men meets The Catcher in the Rye in this psychological thriller. Revis’ latest explores mental illness as readers take a hallucinatory ride with Bo, an immediately sympathetic character in a complex fantasy world where time and control elude him. His disturbing and heartbreaking story will leave readers breathless.
Bo lives at Berkshire Academy, a boarding school for teens with special powers, where he works with Dr. Franklin to gain control over his ability to travel through time. After he loses his girlfriend Sofia when he takes her into the past, he grows frustrated by everyone’s references to Sofia’s “suicide” and realizes that he must rescue her before she is lost forever. Phoebe, Bo’s younger sister, seems to be the only one who can help him verify reality and lead him to the truth. (RAZORBILL, Jul., 384 pp., $17.99, ISBN: 9781595147158, HC, 12 & Up)
- See more at: http://www.rtbookreviews.com/book-review/world-without-you#sthash.taSeGwOM.dpuf