Author: Maddie DeLange
Link: http://amzn.com/B012HSDFLS
ASIN: B012HSDFLS
Description:
After her sister’s suicide, Marina Magaña struggles to get through each day. Stuck in a dead-end job, stalled out of college, and falling out with friends and family, her world is stagnating, drained of color. She’s lost and doesn’t know where her life is headed.
One day she finds a mysterious locket, and soon after, a mysterious figure—the gray man—appears. Marina doesn’t know what to make of the strange events that follow, but she comes to understand that the gray man is more powerful than she could ever have imagined.
In a tale touched by traumatic loss, painful self-discovery, and lyrical beauty, Marina must find out if she has what it takes to move on before it’s too late: before she, or someone she loves, gets caught between her mistakes and the power of the gray man.
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★★★★★/★★★★★
"Rachel's dead because she slit her wrists and bled." That seems to be Marina's mantra at times to help her cope with the fact that her sister is gone. She was close with her sister but her sister apparently had a lot of secrets that didn't come out until after her death that left some unanswered questions for Marina where she keeps having "dreams" about her sister and talking to her trying to figure things out.
Then one day Marina comes across a "magical" locket & starts seeing the "Gray Man". She doesn't know what's going on until her sister tells her in a "dream" that he's there to give her 3 favors & she tells Marina that she would like to come back but Marina asks her that if she used a favor on her, what's there to say she wont just kill herself again? Rachel just basically shrugs her off. Marina's life is basically going nowhere fast.. Her brother is more successful & brushes her off all the time, her mother seems to rub this in her face at times, tho she doesn't think it's intentional. She wants her family to be a family again, but after her sisters death everyone just went their separate ways. Marina also has a dead end job & doesn't want to go to college because she doesn't want to end up in debt, so she really doesn't have much of a future but her best friend and roommate is going for pre-med, as is all her roommate's friends, so Marina is an outcast.
So here Marina has this locket that she can use to get whatever she wants. She can wish for money, a great job, her sister back, etc. So what does she do? Does she do anything at all? You'll have to read the book to find out and I think you'll be pleasantly surprised by the ending!
I received this book for free in exchange for my honest and unbiased opinion.
"Rachel's dead because she slit her wrists and bled." That seems to be Marina's mantra at times to help her cope with the fact that her sister is gone. She was close with her sister but her sister apparently had a lot of secrets that didn't come out until after her death that left some unanswered questions for Marina where she keeps having "dreams" about her sister and talking to her trying to figure things out.
Then one day Marina comes across a "magical" locket & starts seeing the "Gray Man". She doesn't know what's going on until her sister tells her in a "dream" that he's there to give her 3 favors & she tells Marina that she would like to come back but Marina asks her that if she used a favor on her, what's there to say she wont just kill herself again? Rachel just basically shrugs her off. Marina's life is basically going nowhere fast.. Her brother is more successful & brushes her off all the time, her mother seems to rub this in her face at times, tho she doesn't think it's intentional. She wants her family to be a family again, but after her sisters death everyone just went their separate ways. Marina also has a dead end job & doesn't want to go to college because she doesn't want to end up in debt, so she really doesn't have much of a future but her best friend and roommate is going for pre-med, as is all her roommate's friends, so Marina is an outcast.
So here Marina has this locket that she can use to get whatever she wants. She can wish for money, a great job, her sister back, etc. So what does she do? Does she do anything at all? You'll have to read the book to find out and I think you'll be pleasantly surprised by the ending!
I received this book for free in exchange for my honest and unbiased opinion.
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