So many books come out each week that it makes it hard to decide what to read. We want to make that a little bit easier on you by sharing our favorite releases from the week and telling you our top 3 reasons why we think you’ll love them too!
This week our selection is Never Ever by Sara Saedi. Are you ready to hear more about this book and its author? Here we go…
Never Ever by Sara Saedi Published by Viking Juvenile on June 21, 2016
Genres: Adventure, Fantasy, Retellings, Romance
Pages: 352
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Wylie Dalton didn’t believe in fairy tales or love at first sight.
Then she met a real-life Peter Pan.
When Wylie encounters Phinn—confident, mature, and devastatingly handsome—at a party the night before her brother goes to juvie, she can’t believe how fast she falls for him. And that’s before he shows her how to fly.
Soon Wylie and her brothers find themselves whisked away to a mysterious tropical island off the coast of New York City where nobody ages beyond seventeen and life is a constant party. Wylie’s in heaven: now her brother won’t go to jail and she can escape her over-scheduled life with all its woes and responsibilities—permanently.
But the deeper Wylie falls for Phinn, the more she begins to discover has been kept from her and her brothers. Somebody on the island has been lying to her, but the truth can’t stay hidden forever.
3 Reasons You Should Read…
Never Ever by Sara Saedi
- PETER PAN! PETER PAN! PETER PAN! We’re actually thinking we could just have one reason today and it would be enough. Because, you guys!! THIS-IS-A-PETER-FREAKING-PAN-RETELLING!
- Not only is this a Peter Pan retelling, it’s also written by a debut author, which we LOVE! And what a debut it was! The ending left us desperate for more and we know it will do the same to you!
- We absolutely loved this cast of characters! Wylie, John, Micah, Phinn, Tinka, and so many more! This was a great crew that we wish we were a part of.
***About Sara Saedi***
Sara Saedi was born in Tehran, Iran smack-dab in the middle of a war and an Islamic Revolution. As the story goes, she entered the world to the sounds of bombs exploding near the hospital. Though her memory of the day is a little fuzzy, the life and death stakes surrounding her birth helped prepare her for a writing career. Sara received a B.A. in Film and Mass Communications from the University of California, Berkeley and began her career as a creative executive for ABC Daytime. In 2010, she left the company to pursue her dream of being a writer. She’s since penned three TV movies for ABC Family, won a Daytime Emmy for What If…, a web series she wrote for ABC, and worked as a staff writer on the FOX sitcom The Goodwin Games. Most recently, she wrote a pilot for The Disney Channel and sold her debut YA novel Never Ever to Viking Children’s Books for publication in summer 2016. She currently resides in Los Angeles with her husband and her pug, Mabel.
