Publication Date: May 14, 2013
Publisher: HarperTeen
ISBN-13: 9780062199775
Synopsis
We’ve all wonder what “would have been” “what
could have happened” but that doesn’t mean we always want to know what “could
have been”.
It is try I was unhappy with my life, my
life’s long plan was between my reach but one small deviation and getting
closer to my dream of being a journalist I end up shooting a movie in Hollywood
and on my way to stardom.
Then… the earthquake comes, and changes
everything. I am no longer Abby Barnes an up and rising movie star, but Abby
Barnes a girl that is trying to figure out why she is in a Yale dorm, with no
memory of how I got her or why do all their memories don’t match my own.
Review
I first
heard of Parallel thanks to Tea Time with Team EpicReads and let me tell you it
wasn’t what I expected, the little blurb they gave was enough to catch my
interest but I think they didn’t do enough justice to this book.
The story
starts whit Abby being unhappy with her life, of how one tiny change on her
school schedule changed her life radically, but after an earthquake on her 18
birthday she discovers that knowing how you arrived to a place in your life is
better than having everything you ever wanted but having no idea or control on
how you got it.
This book
picked up my nerdy sensibilities, with Caitlin trying to help Abby figure
things up and the theories they come up with helps the story involve the reader
in a story that is so out of our control.
The
whole out of control thing is part of the fun of reading this book, you have no
idea where it’s going to lead us next, yet it’s the theories behind everything
that is happening to Caitlin that may not give us some of the control we are
used to but they give us hope on pin pointing and figuring out everything that
is happening and will happen while enjoying every twist in this book
This is a
story about parallel worlds, of friendship, a story that makes us wonder if there
is such a thing as a destiny and meant to be. A great debut novel for Lauren
Miller in the YA world.
Rating
Good review! You've urged me even more to pick up this book <3
ReplyDeleteThank you Kazhy
ReplyDeleteI hope you do enjoy Parallel :D
This was lovely thanks for writing this
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