Between the Lines
by Jodi Picoult & Samantha van Leer
And then one day Oliver actually speaks to her. Turns out, Oliver is more than a one-dimensional storybook prince. He’s a restless teen who feels trapped by his literary existence and hates that his entire life is predetermined. He’s sure there’s more for him out there in the real world, and Delilah might just be his key to freedom.
Delilah and Oliver work together to attempt to get Oliver out of his book, a challenging task that forces them to examine their perceptions of fate, the world, and their places in it. And as their attraction to each other grows along the way, a romance blossoms that is anything but a fairy tale.
REVIEWS...
"[A]n enjoyable, metafictive twist on the traditional teen-romance novel [...] Book lovers in particular are likely to get a kick out of the blurring of the lines between character and reader, fact and fiction [...] Fizzy fairy-tale fun." --Kirkus Reviews
"'Between the Lines' is a romance between a girl and a boy, but even more, it's a love letter to the visceral bond between a reader and a musty, beloved book [...] The fictional 'Between the Lines' is funny and unexpected [...] and it's fascinating to watch the authors address the problem of what it would be like to live not just in a story, but in a physical book" --The Washington Post
"A compulsively readable charmer." --Booklist
"A clever YA romance about the magical relationship between a loner and her fictional Prince Charming. Elements from Picoult's other novels—alternating character viewpoints with distinguishing fonts, snappy chapter endings—are present, and the story is peppered with pop culture references [...] as well as comic relief in the form of characters like a talking horse that thinks it has a weight problem." --Publishers Weekly
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