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The Second Life of Ava Rivers
The Second Life of Ava Rivers | Faith Gardner
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An immersive, vignette-style novel about the sudden reappearance of a missing girl and the effect it has on her twin sister and their broken family. The Second Life of Ava Rivers is perfect for fans of Kathleen Glasgow's Girl in Pieces and The Way I Used to Be by Amber Smith. Ava's disappearance was the crack in the Rivers family glacier. I wish I could explain to you how we were before, but I can't, because the before is so filmy and shadowed with the after. The after is all Vera remembers. When her twin sister, Ava, disappeared one Halloween night, her childhood became a blur of theories, tips, and leads, but never any answers. The case made headlines, shocked Vera's Northern California community, and turned her family into tragic celebrities. Now, at eighteen, Vera is counting down the days until she starts her new life at college in Portland, Oregon, far away from the dark cloud she and family have lived under for twelve years. But all that changes when a girl shows up at the local hospital. Her name is Ava Rivers and she wants to go home. Ava's return begins to mend the fractures in the Rivers family. Vera and Ava's estranged older brother returns. Vera reconnects with Max, the sweet, artistic boy from her childhood. Their parents smile again. But the questions remain: Where was Ava all these years? And who is she now?
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AudiobookingWithLeah
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Low Pick 3.5⭐
I love Faith Gardner‘s Jolvix Episodes which is an adult thriller series…so I thought I‘d give one of her YA books a try since it was free. The author painted a bleak picture of a family broken by the tragedy of their missing daughter/sister really well but the pacing tended to get bogged down and it left me not wanting to pick this book back up. And the ending…I don‘t know, I think I wanted a little something more.

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Biensoul
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There were moments of this book that really impressed the heck out of me. Great title for those looking to bridge from YA to more contemporary literary fiction.

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Biensoul
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This book started, and I have not been able to stop.

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Hauntedbybooks
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I really enjoyed this book! You can read my full review here! https://hauntedbybooksblog.wordpress.com/2018/08/23/the-second-life-of-ava-river... #bookreview

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Hauntedbybooks
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Happy August! Here are a few books I‘m planning on reading! #augusttbr

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Vera Rivers' plans to escape her dysfunctional family and their tragic past are abruptly put on hold when her twin sister Ava—reported missing 12 years ago—makes a sudden reappearance. Strange, beautiful, enigmatic Ava makes Vera's life magical again—but the demons of Ava's unspeakable past lie between them.

Exploring the limits of love, PTSD, sisterhood and redemption, The Second Life of Ava Rivers is a story of grief, family, and forgiveness.

Bostonmomx2 Did you read it and if so, was it good? 7y
HiddenGemBooks @Bostonmomx2 nope, just a blurb, it‘s a 2018 release ☺️ 7y
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