Sunday, November 3, 2013

Crash by Lisa McMann - ADVISABLE

McMann, Lisa Crash, 233 pgs.  Simon Pulse, 2013.  $9.99  Content: Language: R (69 swears; 13 F); Mature Content: PG-13; Violence: PG.  

Jules is a sixteen year old who lives above her family’s pizza restaurant.  Her father is a horder and has deep depression, so when Jules begins to see a vision of a car crash she worries that she might have a mental illness like her father.  But as Jules breaks down the parts of the vision, she realizes that the car crash that kills 9 people is going to happen at a rival family pizza restaurant where the boy she loves lives.  Jules decides that she has to do something about her visions because if the event comes true she will not forgive herself.  

The story is fast paced and hard to put down as Jules learns that the family rivalry between the two restaurants has some dark secrets.  The adventure of trying to stop the crash is intense and the relationship between Jules and Sawyer is fun to watch develop.  Jules siblings are great minor characters with humorous dialogue also.  This was such a fun book to read I was super disappointed in the inappropriate use of the F word.  It was out of context and makes the book inaccessible to middle school kids who would love it.  

HS-ADVISABLE.  Reviewer, C. Peterson.

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