Review >> The Outliers

The Outliers (The Outliers #1) by Kimberly McCreight

 

Release Date: May 5, 2016

Publisher: HarperCollins

Format: Hardcover, 352 pages (9780062359094)

Source: ARC provided by publisher for an honest review

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"Please, Wylie, I need your help." With these words, a desperate plea from a friend in need, Wylie Lang flees her home along with the beautiful but dangerous Jasper, in order to find her missing friend, Cassie. A series of clues leads the two on a wild chase, but Wylie senses that something is not quite right. Danger waits around every corner and it becomes clear there might be more to the story than a missing girl.

 

Review >> Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy

Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy by Karen Foxlee

Release Date: January 28, 2014

Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers

Format: Hardcover, 240 pages (9780385753555)

Source: ARC received from Net Galley

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Ophelia Jane Worthington-Whittard believes there is a scientific explanation for everything. After her mother dies, her father packs up Ophelia and her sister and takes a job at a museum where Ophelia first discovers something is not quite right in this quiet town. For one thing, it always snows, museum exhibits appear to move, some of the portraits are almost too lifelike, a clock is counting down to...something, and then there's the strange encounter with the mysterious boy locked away in a far corner of the museum... Ophelia must set aside everything she thinks she knows about the world and find her courage in order to solve the mystery and help the nameless boy.