by Victoria Laurie
Every book gets a "gimmie" in terms of "I will wholeheartedly accept this premise without nitpicking" and "When" had an interesting one about a girl who could see the date of a person's death written on their forehead. Of course this might lead to some problems if she is accurately able to predict s...
There are many YA books in which the central protagonist has some kind of ability or supernatural power, and the storyline then unfolds in an otherworldly or paranormal platform. In this, a teenager has the ability to see death dates on the foreheads of people. The setting of the story takes place i...
Wow, this was really good! I was expecting to not like this very much, because the beginning was a bit slow, and some things made no sense, and a certain character was an idiot, but I ended up really enjoying this. I really liked Maddie, she was just really nice and I sympathized with her quite ea...
I'm pretty impressed with this book as a whole. Maddie is a girl with an ability to see death dates, but the paranormal aspect of the book ends there. Victoria Laurie made the perfect recipe with this book. She used a pinch of supernatural ability, threw it into a realistic world and then stirred in...
I received this book via NetGalley to give an honest review.I have to say this is one of the best books for me as far as being a YA. It was way different than I have read before. You have a young girl named Maddie who since she was born saw numbers above people's head but never knew what they meant ...
4.5/5**
The premise of When was fantastic! Maddie is a 16yo girl, gifted/cursed with a unique psychic ability. She has the ability to see the death dates of people, both when she sees them and in photographs. The dates appear as small numbers floating near the forehead. Her gift/curse doesn't allow her ...
Note: I received a free eARC copy of this book. All opinions expressed in this review are my own. I was not paid to write this. When by Victoria Laurie was extremely intriguing! Maddie has always been able to see the death dates of people. However, until her father’s death, she never knew what the...
OMG!! I had heard of Victoria Laurie and was familiar with her work, but had never really gotten around to reading any of them. Today I found out just what exactly I had been missing! I had heard about this book and requested it on Net Galley only to be turned down by the publisher. Ugh, it happens....