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<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\nKIRKUS REVIEW<\/span><\/p>\n In this YA novel, a young man from Earth\u2019s far future visits a present-day teen in her dreams, but soon their connection is threatened.<\/p>\n In a future era in which the Earth is dying, Zat plans a dangerous trip, time traveling to our present by projecting himself into the mind of a teenage girl while she sleeps. That girl, Babe, who\u2019s 17 (roughly Zat\u2019s age), is an adaptable, resourceful person thanks to her father\u2019s job as golf pro, which has caused them to move from state to state\u2014most recently, from California to the Florida Panhandle. Over the summer, Babe learns about another new town, makes some friends, and works in the country club\u2019s tennis shop, and she also begins having recurring dreams of a boy with thick, wavy brown hair and green eyes, who eventually introduces himself as Zat. He seems strangely familiar, and they share a strong bond, making Zat a \u201cdream guy\u201d in every way\u2014except for the crushing headaches Babe has the following day. To herself and on her blog, Babe wonders how Zat can feel \u201cmore real and more interesting than anyone\u2026in real life.\u201d But can he achieve corporeality after time travel? And will he have to abandon the trip\u2014and his life\u2014to save Babe from unbearable pain? Berla (12 Hours in Paradise, 2016, etc.) delivers a very entertaining romance with well-thought-out sci-fi elements\u2014one that\u2019s delightfully free of the clich\u00e9s that so often haunt YA fiction. Both the story\u2019s rich-kid and queen-bee characters defy convention; Babe\u2019s friends have intriguing back stories, and the country-club setting gives the protagonist a chance to make perceptive comments about people and society. For example, while touring a palatial yacht, she remarks, \u201cI knew money didn\u2019t buy happiness, but it was unbelievable what it did buy.\u201d Babe\u2019s blog opens up the story via the sometimes-silly, sometimes-mysterious comments of her readers: one of them wishes she would focus on Florida sightseeing; another, called \u201cDreamMe,\u201d seems strangely knowledgeable about Babe\u2019s situation. The final twist isn\u2019t easy to see coming, and it gives the novel a satisfying, well-earned ending.<\/p>\n A thoughtful, engaging novel that combines genres well.<\/p>\n KIRKUS REVIEW In this YA novel, a young man from Earth\u2019s far future visits a present-day teen in her dreams, but soon their connection is threatened. In a future era in which the Earth is dying, Zat plans a dangerous trip, time traveling to our present by projecting himself into the mind of a teenage…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":104,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynberlabooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/325"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynberlabooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynberlabooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynberlabooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynberlabooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynberlabooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":737,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynberlabooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/325\/revisions\/737"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynberlabooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynberlabooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}BUY NOW FROM AMAZON<\/a><\/h4>\n
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