{ARC Review} Parallel by Lauren Miller

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