![]() Growing up, Autumn and Finny were like peas in a pod despite their differences: Autumn is “quirky and odd,” while Finny is “sweet and shy and everyone like him.” But in eighth grade, Autumn and Finny stop being friends due to an unexpected kiss. They drift apart and find new friends, but their friendship keeps asserting itself at parties, shared holiday gatherings and random encounters. The finely drawn characters capture readers’ attention in this debut.Īutumn and Phineas, nicknamed Finny, were born a week apart their mothers are still best friends. Jules is black and English, and Mia is white and American.Ī hopeless muddle depressingly light on credible elements or nuanced characters. By the end, the course of true love has run far more smoothly than the storyline. Meanwhile the advance guard of the Undying, all of whom inexplicably look like brown-skinned human teenagers, touches off the invasion by poisoning the water of select cities with a toxin that affects residents: “Like they’ve… regressed or something, like they’re Neanderthals.” (A concurrent plan to build portals on the surface for Undying troops to march through just…floats away in the press of events.) In a severely misguided effort to bring clarity to all this, the authors eventually lock the main characters in a room with Dex, an invader with a secret, to unpack the backstory. Leaving huge, flapping holes in their story’s internal logic, Kaufman ( Elementals: Ice Wolves, 2018, etc.) and Spooner (co-author: Unearthed, 2018, etc.) bring brainy Jules and action-oriented Mia back to Earth and, to give them further opportunities for steamy if chaste snogging, send them on a long road trip from Catalonia to Prague with Jules’ flamboyantly gay cousin, Neal. In this companion and conclusion to the duology that began with Unearthed (2018), two teenagers discover shocking secrets about Earth’s supposedly alien invaders. ![]()
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