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Gradually fading away,\nor becoming someone else,
\nhow can you stay yourself, when everything else changes?<\/p>\n
Gradually fading away,
\nor becoming someone else,
\nhow can you stay yourself, when everything else changes?<\/p>\n
Maybe the superstorm will wash away what divided these best friends three years ago
\n– or stop Tiny from fading from view (translucently)
\n– or reveal Will’s true self beneath his new snarky persona
\n– or make Lu feel real and take fewer dramatic risks
\n– or help Nathaniel forget that he cannot replace his genius older brother.<\/p>\n
And then the lightning strikes<\/a>…<\/p>\n Don’t wait for the late August 2017 paperback release – read The Odds of Lightning<\/em> now to see what transpires for these four former friends as they rush through the hurricane-darkened city in search of answers and transformation.<\/p>\n When have you wished you could become someone else? Book info<\/strong>:\u00a0The Odds of Lightning \/ Jocelyn Davies. Simon Pulse, 2016. [author site<\/a>]\u00a0 [publisher site<\/a>]\u00a0 Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n My book talk<\/strong>: When lightning strikes four teens, the former best friends race through the New York City night trying to reverse its effects on them before the hurricane hits.<\/p>\n Before freshman year of high school, they were inseparable – Tiny, Lu, Nathaniel, and Will as science club buddies. That’s all gone now, on the night before SATs, the night they were struck by lightning and became… other.<\/p>\n Is the lightning still bottled up inside them? Switching from now to then to now and presented from the viewpoints of all four friends, The Odds of Lightning<\/em> brings us the aftermath of gradual drift and sudden shock with a magical twist that has nothing to do with spells or wands and everything to do with friendship and love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Gradually fading away, or becoming someone else, how can you stay yourself, when everything else changes? Maybe the superstorm will wash away what divided these best friends three years ago – or stop Tiny from fading from view (translucently) – or reveal Will’s true self beneath his new snarky persona – or make Lu feel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[237,19,41],"tags":[10,90,22,7,4,75,11,5,37,16,18,44,43,39,38,49,186,15,9,91,21,35,33,3,6,8,263],"class_list":["post-8287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diverse-books","category-fiction","category-paranormal","tag-a2z","tag-abandonment","tag-behavior","tag-beliefs","tag-belonging","tag-brothers","tag-communication","tag-coping","tag-death","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-friendship","tag-growing-up","tag-love","tag-magic","tag-memories","tag-new-york","tag-relationships","tag-school","tag-science","tag-self-image","tag-surprises","tag-survival","tag-teens","tag-travel","tag-us-author","tag-weather"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Odds-of-Lightning.jpg?fit=1400%2C2100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8287"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8428,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8287\/revisions\/8428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n**kmm<\/p>\n
\nWhy is Tiny’s body disappearing and Lu’s all numb?
\nWho does Will look like now?<\/p>\n