I hadn’t spoken to Whitley Lansing-or any of them-in over a year. Neverworld Wake by Marisha Pessl, $12, Amazon (Pre-order) CHAPTER 1 Luckily, you don't have to wait until next week because Bustle has an exclusive excerpt you can start reading now, below: When a mysterious man knocks on the door and announces time has become stuck for them, Beatrice and her friends must race against the ticking clock in a timeless world if they ever want to find the truth, or save themselves.Ī dark and twisty tale brimming with psychological suspense, Neverworld Wakehits shelves on June 5. That is why, a year after graduation, she comes back to the estate where she her friends spent most of their time: to finally get some answers. After that, everything changed, and Beatrice became haunted by the dark questions that surround his death. That is, until Jim, the group's creative genius and Beatrice's boyfriend, died. The New York Times bestselling author of Special Topics in Calamity Physics is releasing her young adult debut on June 5, but you don't have to wait until next week to start reading Neverworld Wake, because Bustle has an exclusive excerpt from the absorbing psychological thriller below.Īt Darrow-Harker School, Beatrice Hartley and her five best friends were considered the cool kids, the beautiful people everyone envied. Agent: Amanda Urban, ICM.Since she published Night Film five years ago, I have been waiting for Marisha Pessl to write a new novel, and my patience has finally paid off.
Thought-provoking and suspenseful, Pessl’s YA debut delves into questions of whether even close friends are truly knowable. She doesn’t shy away from painting her characters as deeply flawed, allowing their choices in the Neverworld to show who they truly are. Bestselling adult writer Pessl ( Special Topics in Calamity Physics) adeptly creates a compelling nightmare world while maintaining a foothold in realism and providing many wholly unexpected developments.
Caught between trying to save her life and solving the mystery surrounding Jim’s death, Bee discovers that everyone has a devastating secret. The reunion doesn’t go as expected, and a near-fatal drunk-driving accident brings the teens into the Neverworld, a place between life and death, where they live the same day over and over again until they can agree on who gets to survive. With summer ending and the former friends gathering to celebrate a birthday, Bee decides to find out what they know. Beatrice Hartley, 19, has spent the past year distancing herself from her four best friends after the mysterious death of her boyfriend, Jim, in their senior year.
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