The Cost of All Things by Maggie Lehrman (Website, Twitter, Goodreads)Published by HarperCollins on May 12th 2015
Genres: Death & Dying, Emotions & Feelings, Law & Crime, Social Issues, Young Adult
Pages: 416
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind meets We Were Liars in this thought-provoking and brilliantly written debut that is part love story, part mystery, part high-stakes drama.What would you pay to cure your heartbreak? Banish your sadness? Transform your looks? The right spell can fix anything…. When Ari's boyfriend Win dies, she gets a spell to erase all memory of him. But spells come at a cost, and this one sets off a chain of events that reveal the hidden—and sometimes dangerous—connections between Ari, her friends, and the boyfriend she can no longer remember.Told from four different points of view, this original and affecting novel weaves past and present in a suspenseful narrative that unveils the truth behind a terrible tragedy.
I saw this compared to The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and We Were Liars and I started to drool. I loooooved that movie and I loooooved that book, so I’m horribly intrigued at how this book will play out! Â
About Maggie Lehrman
Maggie Lehrman is a writer and editor living in Brooklyn, NY. She grew up outside of Chicago and went on to get a degree in English at Harvard, where she once received a grant to purchase young adult books the library didn't have. During her decade of working as an editor of books for children, she also earned an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts. The Cost of All Things is her first book.
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