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Inevitable Fate

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Mara Cassidy is going to die . . . again.

For seventeen years, Evan Kiernan's life has felt like painting by someone else's numbers, moving and transferring schools every time his mom has a breakup. But when he's accepted into NYU's Promising Young Artist program for his senior year, the future suddenly feels like a blank canvas.

However, it soon becomes clear that the city has peculiar ties to his past. A thunderstorm finds him under the same umbrella as an eerily familiar green-eyed girl. A visit to an art gallery brings him face-to-face with a heavily tattooed portrait of himself. He sees things that aren't there—at least not anymore. And the girl he's falling in love with is somehow at the center of it all.

When history suddenly points to a devastating future, Evan must race against time to figure out who is pulling the strings and change the green-eyed girl's fate—a race he's already lost twice.

For readers who enjoy Strange Unearthly Things by Kelly Creagh, The Bad Ones by Melissa Albert, Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross, and The Hundred Loves of Juliet by Evelyn Skye.

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    • Kirkus

      September 1, 2024
      Is a 17-year-old student's acceptance to NYU's elite art program a lucky break or preordained? Rather than returning to high school for his senior year, Evan Kiernan is settling into college, thanks to a portfolio that included an impressive oil painting he did calledThe Green-Eyed Girl. During his first week in New York, a sudden rainstorm leads a stranger to share his umbrella--a green-eyed stranger who looks exactly like the girl he painted from his imagination. Evan and Mara Cassidy feel an immediate connection that strengthens as they spend time together. Mara's physical likeness to the painting isn't the only strange coincidence, however. At a Coney Island gallery, Evan finds a 1911 photograph of a young man--one of the people with unusual physical traits who was on display at an amusement park. Apart from his numerous tattoos, the young man looks exactly like Evan. Flashbacks send Evan back in time to the amusement park and even to the Puritan witch trials; each time, he encounters Mara. Interspersed among Evan's narrative are entries written by a certain Kieran Flynn from the Kings Park Asylum in 1911. Readers will enjoy spotting parallels between the characters across the different time periods, and Evan is engaging as he tries to solve the puzzle. For all her charm, Mara, a drummer in a rock band, remains woefully passive and underdeveloped. Main characters present white. A clever tale about breaking free from the past that falls short on secondary character development. (playlist)(Fantasy romance. 14-18)

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    • Booklist

      October 1, 2024
      Grades 10-12 Seventeen-year-old artist Evan has been accepted into a prestigious program at NYU for his senior year. As he studies the intersection of mythology and modern art, Evan befriends the familiar Mara, a drummer in a rock band. The problem is, Evan hasn't actually met Mara before, but he's painted her--as the very piece that got him into the art program. Though Evan isn't one to believe in love at first sight, he begins falling for her. However, things take a turn when an assignment takes him to Coney Island and another familiar face leads to hallucinations of strange memories. To make matters worse, his mom reveals that his long-absent father has paranoid schizophrenia and is institutionalized. Throughout the work, the reader is presented with letters written from an asylum in 1911, with many details aligning eerily with Evan's current events. How much is Evan like his father? Is something mystical happening to him, and if so, is Mara safe? Bandy's sophomore work will haunt and enthrall.

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    • AudioFile Magazine
      Andrew Bates narrates a clever story about a young artist who is confronting destiny while breaking free of the shackles of the past. Evan skips senior year to attend an elite art program at New York University. There he crosses paths with the spitting image of a girl he painted from his imagination. Bates imbues Evan with youthful brightness; he's brimming with optimism tinged with immaturity. When the story pulls Evan through time, Bates maintains the sense of a sweeping adventure. A blossoming relationship with the mysterious girl, Mara, injects heart and a heady romance, with Bates smoothly shifting between youthful joy and rapid-fire banter. Bates enhances this engrossing young adult fantasy-romance, which questions the importance of the past and the ambiguity of the future. J.J.M. © AudioFile 2024, Portland, Maine

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