Invincible: A Heart-Wrenching Young Adult Romance of Love, Loss, and Addiction - Hardcover

Reed, Amy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0062299573 ISBN 13: 9780062299574

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2015

Synopsis

The Fault in Our Stars meets Go Ask Alice in this dramatic romance about a teenage girl who survives a terminal cancer diagnosis, only to get trapped in the deadly spiral of addiction. Fans of Gayle Forman and Sara Zarr will be swept away by this gritty romance, the first in a duology.

Evie is living on borrowed time. She was diagnosed with terminal cancer several months ago and told that by now she’d be dead. Evie is grateful for every extra day she gets, but she knows that soon this disease will kill her. Until, miraculously, she may have a second chance to live.

All Evie had wanted was her life back, but now that she has it, she feels like there’s no place for her in it—at least, not for the girl she is now. Her friends and her parents still see her as Cancer Girl, and her boyfriend’s constant, doting attention is suddenly nothing short of suffocating.

Then Evie meets Marcus. She knows that he’s trouble, but she can’t help falling for him. Being near him makes her feel truly, fully alive. It’s better than a drug. His kiss makes her feel invincible—but she may be at the beginning of the biggest free fall of her life.

About this title

About the Author

Amy Reed was raised in and around Seattle, where she attended a total of eight schools by the time she was eighteen. Constantly moving taught her to be restless, and being an only child made her imagination do funny things. After graduating from fillm school, she earned an MFA in writing from New College of California. Amy currently lives in Asheville, North Carolina, with her husband, daughter, and a well-loved dog. She is no longer restless.

From the Back Cover

Evie is living on borrowed time. She was diagnosed with terminal cancer several months ago and told that by now she'd be dead. Evie is grateful for every extra day she gets, but she knows that soon this disease will kill her. Until, miraculously, she may have a second chance to live.

All Evie had wanted was her life back, but now that she has it, she feels like there's no place for her in it—at least, not for the girl she is now. Her friends and her parents still see her as cancer girl, and her boyfriend's constant, doting attention is suddenly nothing short of suffocating.

Then Evie meets Marcus. She knows that he's trouble, but she can't help falling for him. Being near him makes her feel truly, fully alive. It's better than a drug. His kiss makes her feel invincible—but she may be at the beginning of the biggest free fall of her life.

Reviews

Gr 9 Up—Evie, a self-described Cancer Girl, transitions from palliative care with end-stage Ewing's sarcoma to miracle girl. Instead of shuffling off her mortal coil after being taken on a last mad adventure from the hospital by goth girl Stella, who with her signature fedora and red lipstick is also battling cancer, Evie unaccountably rallies. Perhaps it is the shock of losing friends made in the cancer ward, the new lease on life, or the carpe diem philosophy shared by rebel Stella, but miracle Evie has lost her taste for cheerleading, her best friend, and even Will, the boyfriend who never let her down through the long months of her illness. It's difficult to care much for Evie as a character, beyond basic sympathy for any person dealing with a painful illness, because she doesn't ever really emerge beyond the page. When Evie's back to her pre-cancer life, she meets new romantic interest Marcus on an escape from her intolerably loving home. He's different and happy to share the pot bequeathed by a cancer comrade; and compared to tame Will, Marcus seems like a fascinating bad boy. Yet it's Evie who attempts to numb herself with pills, weed, and booze, leading to a crisis cliff-hanger ending. VERDICT A decent choice for readers with a craving for "dying teen" stories.—Suzanne Gordon, Lanier High School, Sugar Hill, GA

Edition details

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0062299573
• ISBN 13: 9780062299574
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 336