![]() ![]() ![]() Her parents are thoroughly present if a bit controlling, but that’s easy to understand when you consider Sara’s illness. None of that description seems in the slightest bit fantastic, but here’s the catch: Jess’s world isn’t real and she’s just about to figure that out for herself.Įarly on, Carey does an excellent job of lulling readers into Jess’s all-too-ordinary life. ![]() True, her younger sister Sara has been battling an extremely rare disease for a few years and her parents are obviously frazzled with concern, but for Jess life is mostly about high school, whether or not she should be crushing on her best friend Tyler, and how to dodge the sudden attention of her class’s popular jock, Patrick. This is Not the Jess Show, Anna Carey ( Quirk 978-1-68369-197-6, $18.99, hc, 298pp) February 2021.įrom the moment readers first meet her in Anna Carey’s breakneck thriller, This is Not the Jess Show, it is clear that Jess Flynn is living a classic 1998 life. ![]()
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