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When Avalon Martelli and Stephanie Lambert meet at the start of their junior year at Mystekal High, they form an instant connection. Stephanie is from South Jersey and Avalon from North Jersey, and they both feel out of place in the Southern California desert.
Aside from having a home state in common, they each possess a talent for art and the heartbreak of a broken family. Avalon has the gift of sight, where the future is sometimes revealed in her paintings, while Stephanie’s drawings are all about forever love. As Stephanie, a self-described poetry geek and hopeless romantic, talks about past lives and eternal happiness, Avalon denies she’s in love with her best guy friend, River Dalworth, who is attending art school in Los Angeles.
Only weeks before graduation, Stephanie is in a car accident and falls into a coma. Devastated, Avalon believes it is all her fault. The night before, she had painted Stephanie with her head against the steering wheel—and hadn’t told her. She confides this to River, who has come home to be with her, but he can’t convince her she’s not to blame. Avalon loudly proclaims to the universe that she no longer wants her gift, but River warns her she may receive another one in its place.
Avalon and her family, along with Stephanie’s mother, pray for a miracle. River tries to console her, but she finds his presence difficult, knowing he has someone else who “just might be the one.” Trying to push her own pain and disappointment aside, Avalon keeps vigil for her best friend, hoping that Stephanie will wake up and have her greatest wish fulfilled— the meeting of her soul mate.
5.0 out of 5 stars Unique storyReviewed in the United States on June 6, 2024
Well, this was certainly a unique story for me. I’ve not read books one or two, but this book was fine as a stand-alone story. Some people in real life have super powers of sorts. They tend to be highly creative as well. That is just a touch of the surprises found within. I love a good love story with ones soulmate, and this book has more than one pair of soulmates. Tears are shed and misunderstandings happen, sad endings happen yet new beginnings occur. Avalon and Stephanie both know their soulmates, and a struggle occurs for each couple. Mixed into all of this are beautiful and meaningful poetry. This book is actually a book of prose poetry in how the relationships mesh and how amazing each one who has a special ability comes to the forefront. I believe that some people are this way in real life. Avvie and Riv, Steph and Theo, are two sets of soulmates, despite the perceived angst among them in not believing that one person loves another, and misunderstanding arises. Five shiny gold stars.
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