Shandy Lawson

Summary: this book is about two kids stuck in a time loop, where at the end they die and the loop starts over. The kids are aware of the time loop and are trying out different ways to escape their fate and the person that kills them.
Review: This book is under the science fiction part of litterature, where things like time can be moded and controlled by an unseen hand to change the course of history, or at least try. The book however does it with a kind of storytelling that fits teenagers better than children, with romance, blood, violence, swearing and those types of details that might not suit people under the age of 13.… (altro)

Sixteen-year-old Ben and Maggie hit it big at the OTB, but never got a chance to enjoy their winnings because they were robbed and shot dead by Roy, a killer and career thug. Unable to stay dead, Ben and Maggie get to relive their day and deaths over and over, caught in a Time Loop.

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I chose to read this book because of the synopsis in the front cover. It sounded like it could be similar to All Our Yesterdays , by Cristin Terrill, which was mind-blowingly awesome. Sadly, this one didn't even come close to the imaginative world-building and intensity of plot that was the hallmark of All Our Yesterdays . The loop was never explained fully, the characters weren't fleshed out very well,and although there was non-stop action, a lot of it was accompanied with question marks on my part. So while it wasn't terrible, it just wasn't as good as I was expecting, and I didn't really care too much about what happened to the characters. But it will probably appeal to middle school students because of the action and the brevity of the book (only 198 pages).

Areas of concern:
A handful of the *s* word and at least one of the *a* word. A couple of mild kisses. One character accidentally sees the other naked in the hospital. There is quite a bit of violence, since the whole premise of the book is that these 2 teenagers stuck in a loop where they get murdered at the end. In trying to get out of the loop, the teenagers did some illegal things like stealing a car.… (altro)