This is an exciting paranormal mystery about a girl who sees a horrifying vision of a truck accident and nine body bags lying in the snow. She sets out to discover if the vision could be a reality to come and tries to prevent it from happening. It's full of gripping suspense, mystery and general badassery.

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This is a dull story about the forbidden romance between two teens from warring families. Jules' obsession with Sawyer is al More...

I'm weary of books sometimes, but more often than not I surprise myself by loving them. So this is why I still gave Crash a try knowing it's written by the same author who wrote one of my least favorite books of all time. It's unfortunate, but this is a sign that me and Ms McMann simply aren't meant to be. I have to learn to move on, regardless of the temptations that may come about.

Jules Jules Jules, you had such potential! You see visions! And there are body bags in your visions! I wanted to More...

Pre-Review

Oh my dogs, you guys.

Oh my dogs.

There are no words.

I just can't.

Writing reviews for books like this suck. You try to put how you're feeling into words, but everything you come up with pales like a vampire in comparison to how your heart is feeling.

No. Just no.

I'll explain it like this: when I think of CRASH, I get this feeling in my heart that's like angels lifting me into Heaven or looking into the eyes of my crush for the first time.

I wish CRASH was a person. I wish it so hard. I wou More...

One of the things I enjoy most about Lisa McMann's storytelling is how spare it is. There are no words wasted, no characters who are put in just to waste time, everything connects even if you don't see those connections at first.
This gets a solid 4.5 stars for me because there were just a few small things that bothered me. And I do mean they are very small because this was a really great read.
I'd have liked to get some idea at some point what Jules looked like. Completely leaving out her physica More...

I really, really wanted to love this book. I mean, it had a beautiful cover and an interesting blurb. What's not to like about that? Unfortunately, despite its promising premise, the book failed to deliver. Suffice it to say, I was disappointed.



I think the thing that frustrated me the most was that the plot had so much potential. Things started going downhill pretty fast, though. The story started dragging and got rather repetitive. It was the same vision over and over again. There was really no More...

As much I wanted to like this, I couldn't find myself to. Crash has an entertaining protagonist named Julia (or Jules), which helped me enjoy the story, but I'm left completely unsatisfied with how the book led to the ending (there has to be a word [e.g. climax, resolution, etc] for that sort of situation). There were tons of rambling and reminiscing that had no place in the plot, choppy sentences, and the use of "dog[s]" that made me want to pull my hair out.

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Is there anything more disappointing then the CRASHING mediocrity of a book that you were genuinely excited about?!

This is the book version of a movie where you see all the good parts in the trailer. The back cover sounds great and then the story is just MEH...

So the basic premise of this book is that Jules is constantly seeing visions of a huge "crash." And one of the victims is the guy she likes, who also happens to be the son of her families "arch nemesis"/rival pizza restaurant owners.

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Wow. This might just be my favorite of Lisa McMann's books. I don't even know how to describe this feeling I'm having. I am super satisfied with the ending and also super excited (and beginning to become impatient) for the next. Great job Lisa! <3


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As a bookseller you find many books and authors that you absolutely love. Those are the books that you root for and try to get everyone, even if they aren’t the target audience, to read. They are just that good! When Lisa McMann sta More...

Review originally posted at YA Love

Audio Review:

I chose to read Crash with my ears because reading it traditionally wasn’t holding my attention. I write this first because the audio swayed parts of my enjoyment of this book, but not all of it. Overall Allyson Ryan did a good job narrating the story. Her voice is believable as a teen girl, and I was able to discern most of the other character’s voices. Ryan did a great job expressing the emotions of the characters which really brought the story t More...

Review originally posted on Heise Reads & Recommends

This is a must-get book - I can't wait to get this into the hands of teens because I think they're going to eat it up. I adore Lisa McMann and have enjoyed all of her other books, so I was excited to see she'd be signing advanced copies at NCTE this year. Ever since I read the synopsis of this book, I knew I wanted to read it...and it totally lived up to, and exceeded, my expectations. The great thing about Lisa McMann's young adult books, More...

I didn't expect much for this book and I was right in not expecting much. It was given for free when I bought a ticket to "The Host". I was just looking for a quick summer read when I picked up this book.
Jules' see visions of a future crash in billboards and commercials. It replays over and over and then she notices that one of the people who dies in the crash is Sawyer, the forbidden love interest. I love that for once I get to read a story in which all the siblings get along. It was a bit dul More...

I did enjoy this book, though not as much as I thought I would. I found it somewhat disjointed, as if the plot of the book was all just a cover up for a teenage Romeo & Juliet story. I am all for the forbidden love story as much as the next gal, but if that is what the story is, then don't hide it behind something else. I was really intrigued by the visions, and how they would play out. Even more intriguing was how certain things would change, depending on what actions she took, or in some c More...

Jules works in the family pizzeria and is really not a popular girl. Her best friend is her brother, Trey, who is also gay. Jules has been in love with Sawyer since 3rd grade. The only problem is that his family owns a rival pizzeria. Jules starts seeing the same “movie trailer” in her head everywhere she goes – on TV, billboards, store windows of a snow plow driving into a restaurant causing a huge explosion and finally a body bag laying in the snow. The vision consumes her life; its everywhere More...

I have not really been a fan of Lisa McMann since her Wake Trilogy. But I had been quite excited when I discovered she would be releasing Crash. The concept sounded really juicy and intense and dark. Crash, though, was none of those things. It was such a sad disappointment.

By the synopsis of the book, the reader is led to believe that he/she can expect a story filled with a breathtaking romance, tension-filled suspense and something epic to happen. None of that ever takes place in the book. Inst More...

3.5 out of 5 stars



Crash (visions book one) a fast paced read about Jules, a pizzeria wench at the local family business. Not only does she have to drive around her parent’s family food truck with two giant balls on the top (meatballs that is), but she is beginning to have visions of a crash (hence the title I assume). With a family history rich in mental illness she fears that she is turning into her depressed, hoarding father. Worse yet, her grandfather who committed suicide when she a young gi More...

Jules keeps having visions about a truck that is out of control and crashing into a building which then explodes. Everywhere she looks the vision appears -- billboards, TV, dreams. As she investigates the occurrences in the vision she learns the where and the who that is involved. The question then becomes what can she do to prevent it?
This is the first book in what will evidently be a series of books. The characters of Jules, her family, and the family's nemesis, the Angiotti's, are well writte More...

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I really didn't expect to enjoy this book as much as I did. Supernatural YAs are getting kind of repetitive, but I ended up loving the originality of this one. Like, yeah, visions are a repetitive thing, and I think I would have liked the book even more if it had turned out that she was exhibiting signs of schizophrenia or another mental illness, but that's because I'm a sucker for any and all books portraying MI. I think the one thing that ultimately sold me on the visions More...

Sometimes, a paranormal romance type novel doesn't necessarily have to be complex to be fascinating. Such is the case, I think, with CRASH by Lisa McCann -- a quick, cute read that definitely got me excited for the rest of the series.

Jules's family owns a successful Italian restaurant -- the second most popular in town, in fact. Of course, they would be the undisputed best if that other family hadn't stolen her grandfather's secret sauce recipe, thus beginning a seemingly endless battle between More...

A modern day Romeo and Juliet with a twist.

What a heartbreaking thought to not only see a horrifying vision all the time that only you can see, but to see the face of the one boy you love in one of the body bags. Jules does not have an easy life. It is a little twisted with her dad a compulsive hoarder, working nights at her family's Italian restaurant, the boy she loves completely ignores her while their families feud, seeing visions of a scary crash...and oh yea, driving the restaruant's food More...

Julia Demarco has pretty much decided she's going crazy. After all, her grandfather killed himself after a bout with depression, and her father has manic highs and lows in addition to being a hoarder. So, when the sixteen year old starts seeing a vision of a snowplow crashing into a building and leaving behind nine body bags in its' wake, she's shocked and figures the crazies in her gene pool didn't help matters much.

Through incessant bombardment with the vision, Julia finally figures out that t More...

CRASH falls on the younger side of the YA spectrum and this is what might account for the unfailing willingness on her part to put herself out there for him… and embarrass herself in doing so. “Ayayay” is all I can say, with the unabashed declarations she kept making; the same had me cringing on her behalf, worse they simply had me doubting the authenticity of her feelings. It seemed highly unlike these statements from her especially with the background she’s so clearly laid out. Was the despera More...

Intense. Cliff hanger. Romeo and Juliet. These are the things that come to mind immediately after reading Crash. I know one thing is certain, I can’t wait to read Bang!

Let’s start with Romeo and Juliet. The parallels here are obvious from the beginning, though for whatever reason I kept thinking of West Side Story instead. Sure, I don’t remember visions being a part of either of the two stories, but the families feuding keeping two young love-struck people apart sure does ring a bunch of bells. More...

I loved Cryers Cross, so I expected to love Crash. I did not love it, but it had some things I did really, really like. Just like Jules, our hero, I present what I liked in list:

1. Jules makes lists, and some of them are very funny.
2. I loved Jule's voice.
3. Rowan and Try are great siblings.
4. I liked Jules family situation, and her hoarder father.
5. I thought the ending was pretty satisfying.

What drove me crazy:
1. A lot of repetition.
2. The plot stalls in in the middle of the book.
3. Jules neve More...

I did not enjoy this book as much as the Wake series, though I think it would still appeal to YA readers. It's a fast read, but the main character gets bogged down in the vision too much and the final restaurant scene is a bit unbelievable. Overall, though, it had an interesting concept and I will probably read the second in the series just to see where it's going.

Release Date: January 8, 2013 | Series: Visions (Book 1)
If what you see is what you get, Jules is in serious trouble. The suspenseful More...

Okay - I love Lisa's writing - all of it. All ages...but this one sets itself apart! This was a very fast read - I started it on a Sunday morning, got NOTHING else done that day, and finished it that evening. It read like a movie and just flew by.

Jules has the issues and angst of being a teenager, with a secret crush and all the heartache that goes with it, while dealing with a Romeo and Juliet type family situation. Oh, and there is that little thing of seeing these fiery visions on every form More...

When I picked up this book, it was after starting The Unwanteds by Lisa McMann. I started looking around to see if there were any more books in the shop by her and found this one. I also promptly ordered more of her work, because I could tell from reading The Unwanteds that I would like this woman's style of writing and content. Every now and then that happens to me, never has this feeling been wrong.

Now, since I had looked this book up I knew that there was another "Visions" book after this. So More...

This was such a promising premise, it pains me to say it was fairly horrible. I really liked the Wake/Fade/Gone trilogy. I recommend them all the time to reluctant readers. I was hopeful about this one, a girl with visions of a crash and what she'd do to try to avert the tragedy. What I got was a whiny, repetitive story that was BORING. The first three quarters of the book our main girl (I just finished the book two minutes ago and have already forgotten her name) Jules bemoans the fact that the More...

Crash by Lisa McMann shows the story of Jules, a girl that's being haunted by visions. Everywhere she looks, she sees the same scene: a crash and nine body bags. How can she prevent the vision from happenning? How can she save those people? Jules thinks she's going insane, she thinks the vision isn't really a vision, but when it shows her the dead face of the boy she's in love with, she knows she has to warn him, even if he does think she's insane. It's now up to Jules to prevent this from hap More...

4 1/2 Stars.

Julie ‘Jules’ Demarco is a sophomore in high school, She doesn’t go out much or fusses over party, clothes, or make-up like most sixteen-year-olds her age instead she spends most of time working at the family restaurant, an Italian-pizzeria. Jules sees a crash scene over and over everywhere she goes, whether it is on the billboards, TV, or the computer screen. It’s always the same vision, a yellow truck crashing into a building and 9 body bags… the scene no more than 5 seconds long. More...