Autumn’s coming-of-age is sensitively chronicled, with a wide range of experiences and events shaping her character. But on August 8, everything changes, and Autumn has to rely on all her strength to move on.
In the summer after graduation, Autumn and Finny reconnect and are finally ready to be more than friends. Growing up, Autumn and Finny were like peas in a pod despite their differences: Autumn is “quirky and odd,” while Finny is “sweet and shy and everyone like him.” But in eighth grade, Autumn and Finny stop being friends due to an unexpected kiss. They drift apart and find new friends, but their friendship keeps asserting itself at parties, shared holiday gatherings and random encounters. The finely drawn characters capture readers’ attention in this debut.Īutumn and Phineas, nicknamed Finny, were born a week apart their mothers are still best friends. While light on romance, multiple bisexual characters have a variety of storyline outcomes the primary characters default to white.Ĭomplex characters and creepy concepts will leave readers chomping for the next volume. The third-person narration hops between characters without a structural pattern, allowing for cinematic cuts between simultaneous action and expertly manipulated reveals. Violet needs to find her family ritual in order to control her disturbing gift and stop the dangerously strange things happening to her to do so, she must uncover a devastating family history and navigate all the founders’ secrets. Each of the four families has magical gifts to protect the townspeople from the Beast, now killing at greater frequency. Justin believes Violet could be key to protecting the town from the Beast imprisoned in the Gray Harper doesn’t want to see Violet betrayed by Justin like she was. Violet learns she’s from one such family, as fellow descendants Justin, Harper, and Justin’s hostile, volatile best friend, Isaac-with lots of bad blood between them-each try to woo her to their side. The town goes beyond quirky into odd territory, especially in the way the children of the founders’ families are exalted. Still grieving her sister’s death, Violet’s life is further uprooted when her mother suddenly moves them back to Four Paths, her hometown.
A parallel-dimension prison for a horrific evil is linked to a small town’s founding families in this riveting debut.
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