For fans of Lauren Oliver and E. Lockhart, here is a dreamy love story set in the dark halls of contemporary high school, from New York Times bestselling author Brenna Yovanoff.
Waverly Camdenmar spends her nights running until she can’t even think. Then the sun comes up, life goes on, and Waverly goes back to her perfectly hateful best friend, her perfectly dull classes, and the tiny, nagging suspicion that there’s more to life than student council and GPAs.
Marshall Holt is a loser. He drinks on school nights and gets stoned in the park. He is at risk of not graduating, he does not care, he is no one. He is not even close to being in Waverly’s world.
But then one night Waverly falls asleep and dreams herself into Marshall’s bedroom—and when the sun comes up, nothing in her life can ever be the same. In Waverly’s dreams, the rules have changed. But in her days, she’ll have to decide if it’s worth losing everything for a boy who barely exists.
Places No One Knows is a step out for Brenna Yovanoff. I’ve only read one of her other books (The Space Between, which I loved) but I felt like I got a sense of her writing from that one. Places No One Knows is a completely different story from anything she has done before and anything I have read before.
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Overall, Places No One Knows may not be my favorite from Brenna Yovanoff but it’s still a solid addition to her books. I think it really shows that her talent lends itself to any style story that she chooses to write and I look forward to seeing what she does next.
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