Between the Lines

“A compulsively readable charmer. The teen dialogue and interior monologues feel authentic, while Picoult’s practiced hand balances humor with larger issues such as abandonment, hope, and existential quandaries related to fate and human nature. Both silhouette and pencil drawings abound; characters climb in and around the text to excellent effect. Younger readers and their parents will appreciate the gentle, wholesome romance, with nary a shred of paranormal action. The tender, positive tone and effective pacing that builds to a satisfying finish will inspire readers to pass the book to a friend—or reread it themselves.” —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 to The Hunger Games, the Kindle Fire, and the X-Men, as well as comic relief in the form of characters like a talking horse that thinks it has a weight problem. Readers…will be swept up by the romantic premise.” —Publishers Weekly

“In her first foray into teen fiction, Picoult and her coauthor daughter deliver an 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