The Boy and Girl Who Broke the World by Amy Reed

With a unique mix of raw emotion, humor, and heart, the surreal plotline pulls readers through an epic exploration of how caring for others makes us vulnerable-and how utterly pointless life would be if we didn’t. Cassies new existence both thrills and terrifies her. She chooses some dangerous new friends and is quickly caught up in their fast-paced world of drugs, sex, secrets, and cruelty. And as the two grow closer and confront bigger truths about their pasts, they must also deal with such inconveniences as a narcissistic rock star, a war between unicorns and dragons, and eventually, of course, the apocalypse. When thirteen-year-old Cassie moves to a suburb of Seattle, she is determined to leave her boring, good-girl existence behind. On top of that, weird happenings including an impossible tornado and an all-consuming fog are cropping up around them-maybe even because of them. Billy Sloat and Lydia Lemon dont have much. This story is powerful and unique, and I envied its wild and irreverent vision to pieces. Amy Reed offers us a surreal yet oddly familiar world teetering on the edge of destruction and offers hopeful and inventive ways to survive the pain and salvage our dreams.

When the lives of these two loners are thrust together, Lydia’s cynicism is met with Billy’s sincere optimism, and both begin to question their own outlook on life. Tinges of the supernatural add to the electric sense of place in a caustic and original novel Financial Times. The Boy and Girl Who Broke the World is gritty, gutsy, and ferociously strange. The Astonishing Color of After meets Eleanor & Park in this breathtaking and beautifully surreal story about a friendship between two teens that just might shake the earth around them or at the very least make them face some painful truths about the nature of what drives us apart…and what brings us together.īilly Sloat and Lydia Lemon don’t have much in common, unless you count growing up on the same (wrong) side of the tracks, the lack of a mother, and a persistent loneliness that has inspired creative coping mechanisms.

The Boy and Girl Who Broke the World by Amy Reed