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The Change 2: New York: The Queen of Coney Island
The Change 2: New York: The Queen of Coney Island
Guy Adams | 2017 | Science Fiction/Fantasy, Young Adult (YA)
6
6.0 (1 Ratings)
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Very odd
The second book adds no real substance to what exactly happened in "The Change", I think I am just going to have to accept that "things changed".
In the first New York book, we meet Grace, who is trying to reunite with her brother, an inmate of Rikers before The Change. Trying to get safe passage up the Hudson river, she has to ask the Queen of Coney Island for a boat and permission. On the way to do so, she meets up with God (as you do), and enters the former Coney Island amusement park. It is populated with odd people and creatures, some of whom are real, some of whom are formerly real and brought back to life due to the change, others are physical embodiments of ideas and film characters.
Grace and God are given a seemingly simple task to achieve before being given safe passage, but it inevitably turns out to be a very difficult and dangerous one.
The book has a very different feel to the first, London-based one, with a very odd Alice in Wonderland feel to it, with crazy characters helping the one seemingly normal one to her goal.
The one thing that is consistent with the London book is the feeling of wanting more at the end. This time the character had a goal and (spoiler alert) she didn't achieve it by the end of the book.
  
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Still Missing
Still Missing
Chevy Stevens | 2010 | Crime, Fiction & Poetry
10
8.0 (9 Ratings)
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Wow! This book left me breathless. I feel like I held my breath through the entire thing! It tells the story of Annie a young realtor who is abducted as she wraps up an open house for one of her listings. The story is told through her eyes as she works through her experiences on "The Mountain" with her therapist. She tells about the Freak and parallels reliving the year with him to what is going on in her life now. The story is so real and so raw that at times it is hard to read. I read a great deal of it through tears, but still it was hard to put down.