Tandem

by: Anna Jarzab


Sixteen-year-old Sasha Lawson has only ever known one small, ordinary life. when she was young, she loved her grandfather's stories of parallel worlds inhabited by girls who looked like her but led totally different lives. Sasha never believed such worlds were real--until now, when she finds herself thrust into one against her will.
To prevent imminent war, Sasha must slip into the life of an alternate version of herself, a princess who has vanished on the eve of her arranged marriage. If Sasha succeeds in fooling everyone, she will be returned home; if she fails, she'll be trapped in another girl's life forever. As time runs out, Sasha finds herself torn between two worlds, two lives, and two young men vying for her love--one who knows her secret, and one who believes she's someone she's not.
The first book in the Many Worlds Trilogy, Tandem is a riveting saga of love and betrayal set in parallel universes in which nothing--and no one--is what it seems. {cover copy}
This book was on my TBR for way too long. I don't remember when or why I bought it {though the bird on the cover is actually quite a good clue as to why I bought it, and it's a first edition published in 2013 so that's a clue as to when as well} but I'm not sorry I did. I listened to this one on Audible, and I have to say that I think the book was slightly hindered by the narrator. There was something too... teenagery... about how she talked. I know that sounds weird, because, after all, the main character is a teenager, but it was more her inflections than the writing. Also, I'm pretty sure she mispronounced several words, which was mildly annoying. But I'm sure some of that was also the character Sasha. She took a while for me to warm up to her because I was on the fence whether she was kindof an annoyingly typical teenage girl protagonist or not. But all that aside, I couldn't help but like this story. There was so much of it that reminded me of Fringe. It was like Fringe meets, like, The Parent Trap or something. I guess you could maybe see it as a bad thing, how much I could see a reflection of Fringe in it, but it just made me smile thinking of Fringe every time that happened, so I'm not mad at it. This isn't going to be one I recommend right alongside Harry Potter, but I'm interested enough in what happens next to read the second one.

When I was a sophomore in high school, I enrolled in a Western Philosophy class to fulfill a graduation requirement. {first line}

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