Enchanting Reviews

In Between Days

by Anne Jamison

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GENRE: Young Adult

BLURB:

Chicago suburbs, 1985. The high school. The mall. The blood-stained Mercedes. Misogyny. Homophobia. Class warfare. Cocaine.

(And the first semester isn’t even over yet.)

The Jocks with their pastel Izods. The Barbies. The loser Burnouts.

High school in the 1980s had rules. Barbies and Jocks can mix. Barbie cheerleaders steer clear of the losers. Punks want to burn it all down.

Samantha Ward doesn't love the rules, but she plays to win. So when a snarky Burnout goes after her in a face-off, of course she fights back. Of course she fights mean. She may not get his sex joke, but she knows he made one. About her. In front of the entire cafeteria. And what's worse, she feels a tingle when she looks at bad-boy Jason.

How could she know her mean girl put-down would launch a war? Or that the school she knows hides a darker world she never even dreamed of?

In Between Days is a pitch-perfect story of first love, friendship, and enemies; of loyalty, betrayal, and the power of secrets. This darkly funny, suspenseful tale is perfect for fans of The Outsiders and The Breakfast Club.

"GRIPPING AND UNPUTDOWNABLE." --Christina Lauren, international bestselling authors of Dating You/Hating You “THIS WAS a bittersweet tumble into eighties high school nostalgia, with all the angst, sexual tension and emotional confusion involved with first love, and so well done it was a non-stop read to the end.… (Oh, and one of the best first kisses I have EVER read...),” says one reviewer

Author's Note:

This is a historical novel that contains period language that is, and was then, and should be, offensive.

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EXCERPT:

Jason grabbed a book from his locker and slammed the metal door shut with a bang of his fist. He let his face harden into the kind of loud stare you could hear and feel before you even turned around to see it, and he aimed it down the hall at Pinkshirt and his blue-shirted buddy. They wore the kind of shirts that had little lizards sewn on them. Jason hated those shirts and he hated them even more when they had the collars turned up. Bugged the shit out of him.

The dudes looked up. Jason made a show of blowing spit towards their feet. It was fake spit, just the sound of his tongue against the “O” of his lips, but it got the message across.

Pinkshirt nudged Blueshirt, gesturing in Jason’s direction. Jason’s stare followed the girl whose shadow had been steered. He made a point of looking at her and each of her friends. He also made a point of not looking too impressed.

The girls didn’t look up or notice him at all, but their dudes sure as hell did.

Good. Game the fuck on.

He looked at the girls again, then shrugged, then let his tongue show.

He didn’t even like that kind of a girl, was the funny thing. They were so sure he and his friends were waiting like groupies at a stage door, hoping for their chance at the big time. But those girls—there was nothing special about them, just money and clothes and the fact that everyone treated them like gold and in return they treated everyone else like dirt.

Basically, they looked like what you’d get if you took a cookie cutter and set out to make girls. One with dark hair stood out some, everything about her flashing and alive, like she could be fun if she ditched the stupid clothes and stupider attitude, but she also looked like that wasn’t about to happen. As for the one those jocks had been so concerned about, she wasn’t even pretty, although there was a suggestion of pretty about her, like she might have been pretty if she hadn’t spent all her time looking entirely average. But even that she ruined by this hideous green thing that looked like an aborted caterpillar she was carrying over her shoulder and clutching like some precious prize.

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AUTHOR Bio and Links:

Anne Jamison is the author of three critical books, including Fic: Why Fanfiction is Taking Over the World. She lives in Salt Lake City with her dogs, her son, and an avant-garde poet. She is an English professor, but not the kind that corrects your grammar (unless she is actively grading your paper). In Between Days is her first novel.

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