This Is Not Forgiveness - Hardcover

Rees, Celia

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ISBN 10: 1599907763 ISBN 13: 9781599907765

Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Childrens, 2012

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Everyone says Caro is bad, but Jamie can't help himself. She is totally different from the other girls. But he soon realizes there is more to Caro-much more. Consider: How she disappears for days at a time, or the scars on her wrists, or her talk of revolution and taking action. Jamie's also worried about his older brother Rob. Back from Afghanistan and struggling with PTSD, Rob is living in a world of his own. Which is why it's so strange that Rob and Caro know one another-and why their secrets feel so very dangerous.

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About the Author:

CELIA REES is the author of many acclaimed and bestselling books for young readers including the Witch Child, Sorceress, Pirates!, Sovay, and The Fool's Girl, and her books have been translated into more than twenty languages. Celia lives in England.
www.celiarees.com

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Three narrators—a young but broken war veteran, his long-suffering little brother, and the driven girl who comes between them—weave a powerful, tragic tale of love and war in Rees’ contemporary British novel. Jaime is infatuated with Caro from the first moment he spots her, though he can hardly believe that this enigmatic, beautiful girl returns his feelings. Their fiery, troubled love affair is all he thinks about, aside from worrying over his mercurial brother, Rob, who returned from Afghanistan with PTSD and a busted leg. But while Caro has genuine feelings for Jaime, her true goal is Rob, whose unpredictable mental state makes him a perfect tool for her anarchist plans to fight violence with violence. Told as a series of flashbacks, the story starts a year after Rob’s funeral, so the novel’s tension lies in watching the inevitable destruction unfold. Each character is distinct and sympathetic, though not necessarily likable, and Rob’s fragmented narrative is particularly affecting. A slightly underplayed ending doesn’t detract from the novel’s lingering sense of discomfort. Grades 9-12. --Krista Hutley

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