McMann, Lisa. Crash.

McMann, Lisa.  Crash.   Simon & Schuster/ Simon Pulse  2013  233p  $16.99     978-1-4424-6168-0 hs    Misc. VG-BN

Jules keeps  having visions about a truck that is out of control and crashing into a building which then explodes.  Everywhere she looks the vision appears -- billboards, TV, dreams.  As she investigates the occurrences in the vision, she learns the where and when of the event, as well as the who that is involved.  The question then becomes: “what can she do to prevent it”?  This is the first book in what will evidently be a series.  The characters of Jules, her family, and the family’s nemeses, The Angiotti’s, are well-written and well-developed. The distrust and hatred between the two families is apparent from the start, and the way that that plays into the vision makes for a compelling read.  Jules’s former love for the Angitiotti’s teenage son Sawyer provides the second pivotal point of the book.  The way that relationship concludes is satisfying and realistic, and obviously leads into the second book in the series.  In some ways this story has undertones of Romeo and Juliet, without the finality of death for the two primary characters.  All-in-all, it is a very good read.

Romance – Fiction, Conflict - Fiction                       Fisher(1), Lynn