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by Kari Maaren (Goodreads Author)

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No question here but just found out i won this book from Goodreads!!! Wow how cool is this? Can't wait to get it!! It is YA and I never read YA, well I am now because the story looks really cool! Just had to let ya know!

Kari Maaren Thank you for your non-question question, and congratulations on winning the contest! I hope you enjoy the novel. It's sort of YA, and sort of not, an…moreThank you for your non-question question, and congratulations on winning the contest! I hope you enjoy the novel. It's sort of YA, and sort of not, and sort of an old-fashioned children's book, and sort of not, and sort of just bouncing all over all the categories because it has consumed too much sugar and can't make up its mind.(less)

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Do you know if there's a pub date for this yet?

Kari Maaren Hi...I should check this site more often, I guess. The publication date has just recently been set as November 28, 2017.

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Would you consider this book an adventure story or a mystery?

Lisa There is some moderate level of adventure, but to me it felt like a sci-fi/fantasy coming-of-age story; the character development is more fundamental …moreThere is some moderate level of adventure, but to me it felt like a sci-fi/fantasy coming-of-age story; the character development is more fundamental than the actual adventure. There is a little mystery too. Actually it’s a great blending of the genres. Kind of like A Wrinkle In Time but with Norse mythology instead of Christian mythology as the basis. (less)

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Is there any kind of romantic relationships in this book? If so is there anything explicit (more than kissing?)

Lisa Nope, but that in itself is played for laughs and leads to a hilarious scene or two.

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Whats this about? The description isn't very helpful....

Kari Maaren The description is the publisher's original back-cover blurb (the final one is slightly different but equally oblique), which is attempting to avoid s…moreThe description is the publisher's original back-cover blurb (the final one is slightly different but equally oblique), which is attempting to avoid spoilers while still giving a sense of what the book is about. This book is not easy to summarise without spoiling some pretty essential details. I guess you could say it's about a stroppy teenage girl, Freddy, who just wants to fly under the radar and get through her life without attracting much attention. When two unusual neighbours move in next door and one of them decides he's going to attach himself to her, her life begins to spin out of control. She and her siblings (her sister Mel and her stepbrother Roland) begin to suspect that the neighbours are a bit more than just eccentric; one of them, a private investigator named Cuerva Lachance, seems to be able to break the laws of physics, and Mel is sure the other, the acerbic teenager Josiah, can be in two places at once. The neighbours seem unusually interested in Freddy's family, and the siblings are still trying to figure out why when Freddy and Josiah walk through a door in the neighbours' strange house and are yanked back into the past. Freddy has to find a way home while also solving the mystery of why Cuerva Lachance and Josiah have latched onto Freddy and her siblings. That's about as far into the plot I can go, but theme-wise, this is a coming-of-age novel that also functions as a story about stories.

I'm afraid this may not help much, but this really is the kind of book it's difficult to describe without giving too many things away.(less)

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