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Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Just the Series: Visions Vol. 2   

Series and Publisher: Visions   

Annotation: A teen who used to see a vision of a crash must help her boyfriend as he is now seeing a vision of a school shooting.
 
Reviews: 4
Catalog Number: #5591549
Format: Paperback
Copyright Date: 2014
Edition Date: 2014 Release Date: 05/06/14
Pages: 241 pages
ISBN: 1-442-46628-6
ISBN 13: 978-1-442-46628-9
Dewey: Fic
LCCN: 2012028658
Dimensions: 22 cm.
Language: English
Reviews:
ALA Booklist

At the end of Crash (2013), 16-year-old Jules Demarco saved many people's lives, including that of her now boyfriend Sawyer Agotti. Unfortunately, she also transferred her visions to him, and so a scene is playing on repeat in his mind: there's a gun and 11 bangs. The visions quickly grow in intensity, and Sawyer and Jules don't have much time to intervene and prevent a grisly school shooting (which, sadly, feels all too topical). In between, there's drama with Jules' family e is supposed to steer clear of Sawyer, son of her father's rival d her sexual awakening (although no actual sex). The stakes seem higher this time around: there are more lives at risk, less information to go on, and the pace moves at a faster clip. Fans of the first novel, by the popular author of the Wake trilogy, will, alongside Jules, Sawyer, and Jules' brother, Trey, race against the clock. This readable mystery contains romance and suspense, and the ending ensures there are more visions to come. But who is next to see unimaginable things?

Horn Book

Having passed her gift/curse of premonitory visions (first seen in Crash) to her boyfriend Sawyer, Jules must help him prevent a school shooting while processing the trauma of the visions. McMann crafts a refreshingly down-to-earth tale of supernaturally aided sleuthing, with richly nuanced family drama and warm sibling bonding rounding out the central star-crossed romance and race against time.

Kirkus Reviews

Captivating in its own right, McMann's second installment in the Visions trilogy is more than a bridge novel. It's been just over a week since Jules saved new boyfriend Sawyer and his family's rival pizza parlor, and Sawyer has begun seeing his own visions of tragedy. The author ratchets up the intensity, as Sawyer's visions appear in even more unusual venues and include sound--"[e]leven fucking gunshots" to be exact. Enlisting the help of Jules' gay, older brother, Trey, the teens set out to solve the mystery of where the shooting takes place and who may be involved--on both sides of the gun. They deduce that the gunshots take place at a school, but talking and writing about a school shooting may get them into trouble. Playing sleuth rather than receiving the visions this time, Jules has more time to focus on the ethics of the visions, such as what purpose the visions fulfill and whether the recipients have a moral obligation to save the lives they see in their visions. It's not just visions but Jules and Sawyer's relationship that grows bolder, with both new emotional and physical feelings (though sex is not an issue yet). Who will receive the visions next? McMann gives fewer hints this time, but another dramatic, quick-paced thriller is certain. (Supernatural thriller. 14 & up)

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Word Count: 48,762
Reading Level: 4.2
Interest Level: 9-12
Accelerated Reader: reading level: 4.2 / points: 7.0 / quiz: 162101 / grade: Middle Grades+
Reading Counts!: reading level:4.4 / points:13.0 / quiz:Q61475
Lexile: HL720L
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One


It’s been over a week since Sawyer kissed me and told me he was seeing a vision now, and it’s all I can think about. I can’t wait to get out of this apartment, which I am tethered to until Monday—that’s when the doc said my internal injuries will be healed enough so I can go to school again. My older brother and best friend, Trey, has been great, of course, slipping notes to Sawyer for me and delivering replies back to me. But for some reason Sawyer won’t explain his vision on paper. “It’s too . . . frightening. Too gruesome. Too . . . everything,” he wrote.

And me? I’m sick about it.

Absolutely sick.

Because it’s my fault. I was so relieved when my vision ended—no more snowplow crashing and exploding into Angotti’s restaurant, no more body bags in the snow, no more Sawyer’s dead face. After weeks of that stupid vision taunting me, and after nearly getting killed because of it, I was naive enough to think it was all over and I’d get to live a happy life. Relatively, anyway. Under the current parental circumstances, that is.

But then, once I got home from the hospital, Sawyer sent me that note. He had to see me, he said. That night, 2:00 a.m. And I wanted to see him, too. I eased my broken body down the stairs and we stood in the snowdrift surrounded by breathy clouds and he kissed me, and I kissed him back, and it was the most weirdly amazing feeling. . . .

And then the amazingness of my first kiss was over. He pulled away and looked at me, his gorgeous green eyes filled with fear, and his voice shook. You know that billboard?

Those words haunt me.

Obviously I was not only psychotic enough to have a vision, but I managed to give the stupid vision disease to the one person I was trying to save.

It’s beyond horrifying, sitting here knowing he must be experiencing the worst kind of frustration and pressure to act on the vision and—Did he say “gruesome”?

Let me say it one more time. Sick. That is what I am.

And so very sorry.

I rack my brain trying to figure out how this could have happened. Was it because he hugged me on the street the night before? Because he held my hand afterward in the hospital? Maybe there’s some kind of physical transference going on. I have no idea.

I have done something horrible to the boy I love, and I don’t know how to stop it.

All I know is that I need to get out of this hoardhole before I lose my mind.

Oh, wait.

Excerpted from Bang by Lisa McMann
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What Sawyer’s seeing might mean murder. The second “dramatic, quick-paced thriller (Kirkus Reviews)” in a series from the New York Times bestselling author of the Wake trilogy.

Jules should be happy. She saved a lot of people’s lives and she’s finally with Sawyer, pretty much the guy of her dreams. But the nightmare’s not over, because she somehow managed to pass the psycho vision stuff to Sawyer. Excellent.

Feeling responsible for what he’s going through and knowing that people’s lives are at stake, Jules is determined to help him figure it all out. But Sawyer’s vision is so awful he can barely describe it, much less make sense of it. All he can tell her is there’s a gun, and eleven ear-splitting shots. Bang.

Jules and Sawyer have to work out the details fast, because the visions are getting worse and that means only one thing: time is running out. But every clue they see takes them down the wrong path. If they can’t prevent the vision from happening, lives will be lost. And they may be among the casualties…


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