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    <body><![CDATA[this book gives a perfect description of both love and loss through a moving series of chapters. this book captures both mind and soul and is most certainly a hard to stop reading type novel. the way the events are described produces the feeling of raw emotion in the mind which is an excellent accom...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38730789">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book! What an incredible YA book. The plot was beautiful with a steady rhythm and unpredictability. I loved the use of flashbacks or the sentences Troy (the main character) remembered from his past. My brain just shut off as I read - I was absorbed in the writing.<br/><br/>The charact...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48786427">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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