Book Review | Second Star | Alyssa B. Sheinmel

Book cover for Second Star by Alyssa B. SheinmelTitle: Second Star
Author: Alyssa B. Sheinmel (web | twitter)
Genre: Contemporary YA, retelling
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Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Release date: May 13, 2014
Source: ARC from the Publisher (Thanks FSG!)

A twisty story about love, loss, and lies, this contemporary oceanside adventure is tinged with a touch of dark magic as it follows seventeen-year-old Wendy Darling on a search for her missing surfer brothers. Wendy’s journey leads her to a mysterious hidden cove inhabited by a tribe of young renegade surfers, most of them runaways like her brothers. Wendy is instantly drawn to the cove’s charismatic leader, Pete, but her search also points her toward Pete’s nemesis, the drug-dealing Jas. Enigmatic, dangerous, and handsome, Jas pulls Wendy in even as she’s falling hard for Pete. A radical reinvention of a classic, Second Star is an irresistible summer romance about two young men who have yet to grow up–and the troubled beauty trapped between them.

 

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