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This Is Not the Jess Show

This Is Not the Jess Show by Anna Carey

May 19, 2021 by Caitycat Leave a Comment

It’s going to be pretty difficult to talk about this book without spoiling the big twist, although the twist is pretty obvious from the beginning. It’s advertised as a cross between Black Mirror and My So-Called Life, which partially gives it away to me. Anyways, I’ll try my best to toe the line… Jess Flynn is your typical late-1990s high school girl. You know, the late 90s, Spice Girls and BSB, Titanic, TGIF, Doc Martens and babydoll dresses, Clueless, pagers, inflatable furniture and lava lamps…that […]

Filed Under: Young Adult Tagged With: Anna Carey, CBR 13, YA, Young Adult

Caitycat's CBR13 Review No:3 · Genres: Young Adult · Tags: Anna Carey, CBR 13, YA, Young Adult ·
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A perfectly serviceable start to a YA trilogy.

October 18, 2016 by Blingle Bells Leave a Comment

A plague has killed 98% of the world’s population. Eve is preparing for her graduation ceremony from her all-girls school in the middle of nowhere, after which she’ll cross a bridge and begin learning a trade, when she discovers that her teachers haven’t been totally forthcoming with her about the world she lives in or what’s across the bridge. Things I liked a lot about this book: So far there’s not too much of the Chosen One trope, which is a huge YA dystopian trilogy […]

Filed Under: Young Adult Tagged With: Anna Carey, Dystopian, trilogy, YA

Blingle Bells's CBR8 Review No:40 · Genres: Young Adult · Tags: Anna Carey, Dystopian, trilogy, YA ·
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