narrated by Karissa Vacker and Jesse Bernstein (whose voice didn't quite match the character, methinks)
Unabridged audio (10:10)
2016 Delacorte Press
373 pgs.
YA Contemporary Magical Realistic Fiction
Finished 1/12/2020
Goodreads rating: 3.75 - 2728 ratings
My rating: 3.5
Setting: Contemporary America
First line/s: "There's something awful about the sun."
My comments:The story captivated me right from the beginning, a brand of magical realism that had only just a touch of the magical, but unfortunately there was one drawback. Of the two protagonists, I could not understand one of them at all. I tried, but every time I thought I'd figured her out, I was wrong. Perhaps I've never know anyone like her. I "got" Marshall, and I'm glad that (of course) they got together in the end (don't they always?), but I'm not sure she deserved him! Perhaps it was just a little too deep for me? Or perhaps I was trying too hard to figure her out?
Goodreads synopsis: For fans of Lauren Oliver and E. Lockhart, here is a dreamy love story set in the dark halls of contemporary high school, from New York Times bestselling author Brenna Yovanoff.
Waverly Camdenmar spends her nights running until she can’t even think. Then the sun comes up, life goes on, and Waverly goes back to her perfectly hateful best friend, her perfectly dull classes, and the tiny, nagging suspicion that there’s more to life than student council and GPAs.
Marshall Holt is a loser. He drinks on school nights and gets stoned in the park. He is at risk of not graduating, he does not care, he is no one. He is not even close to being in Waverly’s world.
But then one night Waverly falls asleep and dreams herself into Marshall’s bedroom—and when the sun comes up, nothing in her life can ever be the same. In Waverly’s dreams, the rules have changed. But in her days, she’ll have to decide if it’s worth losing everything for a boy who barely exists.
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