![]() ![]() ![]() 12-14)Ī gripping thriller in dystopic future Los Angeles.įifteen-year-olds June and Day live completely different lives in the glorious Republic. The fairy world has got to be better than being in Morgan’s orbit. It’s too bad that this love story, fairly original within the confines of the trendy paranormal-romance genre, is so thoroughly superficial, complete with a self-absorbed, unlikable heroine and a looks-obsessed notion of love and romance. ![]() As Morgan watches, Pip transforms from fashion-challenged dork to a gorgeous-smelling hunk with washboard abs. Meanwhile, she has to cope with an interloper: Pip, the human child originally stolen and replaced by Cam in the cradle 16 years before. Morgan watches in horror as Cam’s football-player physique shrinks away into sparkly, winged, smooth-skinned feyness. It seems Cam is a changeling, destined to return to the fairy lands on his 16th birthday. ![]() Instead, it’s Morgan’s boyfriend, Cam, her best friend since they were in diapers, who’s the really paranormal teen in this shallow romance. In most high schools, the psychic girl would be the weird supernatural student, but Morgan’s precognitive powers just aren’t the strangest thing around. ![]()
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