I turned to go, my eyes catching Ever’s. She was smiling, her head cocked to the side, then she nodded as if to say, Good for you.
The friendship between Ever and Wren is one of the most important parts of the book. Friendships between girls, and all their complexities, has always been one of the most important parts of my books – Wren and Ever, Em and Violet in RUINED, Clara and Madison in ALL THESE MONSTERS, Maisie and Hadley in THE Q, Lucy and Savvy in LISTEN FOR THE LIE.
When I first started writing REBOOT, I hadn’t created the character of Ever yet. But as I wrote the first chapter, I realized that Wren needed someone in her life, another girl to flesh out her character and make her story feel real. Wren likes to pretend she’s an island who needs no one, when in reality Ever is one of the only reasons she survived HARC.
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