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Category: HMH Books for Young Readers
Review: We’ll Never Be Apart by Emiko Jean
Title: We'll Never Be ApartAuthor: Emiko Jean
Also by this author: Tokyo Ever After
Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers
Genres: Mystery, Thriller, Young Adult Fiction
Publication Date: October 6, 2015
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Murder.
Fire.
Revenge.
That’s all seventeen-year-old Alice Monroe thinks about. Committed to a mental ward at Savage Isle, Alice is haunted by memories of the fire that killed her boyfriend, Jason. A blaze her twin sister Cellie set. But when Chase, a mysterious, charismatic patient, agrees to help her seek vengeance, Alice begins to rethink everything. Writing out the story of her troubled past in a journal, she must confront hidden truths.
Is the one person she trusts only telling her half the story? Nothing is as it seems in this edge-of-your-seat psychological thriller from the debut author Emiko Jean.
❃ I received this book for free from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. ❃
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