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Thursday, August 14, 2014

One Past Midnight by Jessica Shirvington

Author: Jessica ShirvingtonPublication: July 22, 2014By: Bloomsbury USA ChildrensGoodreads3 Stars Name of overseas edition of Between The Lives. 

Above
all else, though I try not to think about it, I know which life I
prefer.  And every night when I Cinderella myself from one life to the
next a very small, but definite, piece of me dies.  The hardest part is
that nothing about my situation has ever changed.  There is no loophole. 

Until now, that is...

For
as long as she can remember, Sabine has lived two lives.  Every 24 hours
she Shifts to her ′other′ life - a life where she is exactly the same,
but absolutely everything else is different: different family, different
friends, different social expectations.  In one life she has a sister,
in the other she does not.  In one life she′s a straight-A student with
the perfect boyfriend, in the other she′s considered a reckless
delinquent.  Nothing about her situation has ever changed, until the day
when she discovers a glitch: the arm she breaks in one life is perfectly
fine in the other. 

With this new knowledge, Sabine begins a
series of increasingly risky experiments which bring her dangerously
close to the life she′s always wanted... But just what - and who - is
she really risking? 

Thank you Lizzie Mason Bloomsbury for this ARC! 

The colors in the finished cover are so pretty!  I was really excited to read this, I'd heard LOTS of good things from people who snagged a copy at BEA, and the concept of living two lives and having to ultimately choose between them sounded really cool. 

I was expecting a Sliding Doors type of story but that isn't really how this one played, not for me anyway.  I had trouble connecting with Sabine in either of her lives and her relationship with Ethan felt kind of forced.  However, I did like the idea of not taking life or the people in it for granted, and living each day to the fullest.  And the twist at the end was pretty cool!  Fans of Split Second, Just Like Fate, and Parallel will enjoy this one.