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Never Have I Ever by Sara Shepard

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Brief synopsis (no spoilers):
Emma continues pretending to be Sutton, in hopes of identifying her killer. She has assimilated herself well, but she's struggling with the fact that her twin was, quite often, not very nice.

Category:
YA Fiction

Why I chose this book:
Next in the series

My personal opinion:
Warning: this book is a total cliffhanger! It also skirted very close to a higher movie rating. Twice, I felt like things were going to become inappropriate in the "adult situations" category. And twice it felt like the language was going to go in a bad direction. But the

Warnings
Language: One big one, a couple minor bad words
Violence: Fairly frequent, but not gory or graphic
"Adult" situations: One romantic situation that gets close to a kiss
Death: Not in this part of the series

Movie rating equivalent:
PG-16 (not R, but I won't let my 13-year-old read it)

Protagonist description:
Emma is conflicted. She's trying to be normal Emma, but she's also pretending to be popular, snide Sutton. She's losing herself a bit.

Point of view of story:
Both third (focused on Emma) and first (narrated by Sutton)

Book length:
Medium

Story flow:
Excellent

Grammar and spelling issues:
None

Character connection (no spoilers):
None

For series:
Independent or integral:
Integral

Series review as a whole:
If you like the first book, I recommend that you read them back-to-back. It's a decent series, but not one of my favorites

If you only have time for one, read:
Start at the beginning

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