Title: How I Live Now
Author: Meg Rosoff
Category: Fiction, Young Adult
Rating: 5/5
Summary: 15-year-old Daisy leaves her home in New York to escape her new stepmother and goes to live with her cousins in England. But just as she’s getting used to her new life, war gets in the way.

Review: Haunting, but brilliant. The voice is spot-on for a 15-year-old who is rebelling against the possibility of an evil stepmother. Daisy is a clever girl, and funny to boot. It was an absolute pleasure hearing what she had to say about the world.

I always enjoy juicy little bits of foreshadowing that whet your appetite for what’s to come. So on the first page, I had a hunch I was going to like this book a lot:

But the summer I went to England to stay with my cousins everything changed. Part of that was because of the war, which supposedly changed lots of things, but I can’t remember much about life before the war anyway so it doesn’t count in my book, which this is.

Mostly everything changed because of Edmond.

And so here’s what happened.

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