nitzan_schwarz's Review of Unraveling (Unraveling, #1)

by Elizabeth Norris

Reminiscent of Before I Fall, Elizabeth Norris's Unraveling blends realistic coming-of-age issues and heart-stopping romance with something just a little bit more. In this case, a gripping science fiction world.

Unraveling's heroine, seventeen-year-old Janelle Tenner, is used to having a lot of responsibility. She balances working as a lifeguard in San Diego with an intense academic schedule. Janelle's mother is bipolar, and her dad is a workaholic FBI agent, which means Janelle also has to look out for her younger brother.

And that was before she died...and is brought back to life by Ben Michaels, a mysterious, alluring loner from her high school. The more Janelle tries to figure him out, the more she starts to believe he's connected to a case her father is working on. The one where people are dying of radiation poisoning and the body count is rising. The one that involves a strange clock that seems to be counting down to the earth's destruction. If Janelle wants to stop the clock and save the world, she has twenty-four days to uncover Ben's secrets--and keep from falling in love with him.

From debut author Elizabeth Norris, comes this shattering novel of one girl's fight to save herself, her world, and the boy she never saw coming.

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Update: my review of Unraveling is up! check it out here to find out why I gave this wonderful book only 3.5 stars...

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3.5 stars
Because even though this book was a 5 star up until the three or so last chapters, those chapters just made me feel so freakin' meh about it. They damn near cancelled all the amazingly good feels I had for Unraveling. I don't know what to do. Maybe I'll feel more forgiving when I write the review, but right now I just... I can't even.

Unraveling (Unraveling, #1)

by Elizabeth Norris

Reviewed by nitzan_schwarz on Sep 12, 2013

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