Saving Zoe

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In Alyson Noël's newest teen novel, one sister's secrets save the other's life—in more ways than one.

Meet fifteen-year-old Echo, a typical teen trying to survive high school without being totally traumatized by boy trouble, friend drama, and school issues. As if she didn't have enough on her plate, Echo is also still dealing with the murder of her sister Zoë. Although it's been over a year, Echo is still reeling from tragedy that changed everything. Beautiful and full of life, Zoë was the glue that held her family together, and although the two sisters were as different as night and day, they still had a bond that Echo can't let go of. When Zoë's old boyfriend Marc shows up one day with Zoë's diary, Echo doesn't think there's anything in there she doesn't already know. But as she gives in to curiosity and starts reading, she learns that her sister led a secret life that no one could have guessed—not even Echo.

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VOYA

In the aftermath of her sister Zod's murder, Echo struggles to piece things together. Her parents hide behind work and prescriptions, school friends stare and whisper, and no one can reach Echo's inner sanctum of grief except Zod's boyfriend Marc. When Marc produces Zod's diary, her secrets tumble out: sex, drugs, true love, and ultimately death by an Internet stalker. Using the diary, Echo repairs her grieving family, eases Marc's guilt, and stops another sexual predator. Author of Kiss and Blog (Griffin/St. Martin's, 2007/VOYA June 2007), Nodl tells the story through the first-person narrative of Zod's and Echo's diaries, using a conversational style that makes a quick read. Many secondary characters are undeveloped, and the setting is nearly nonexistent, but readers will not find it difficult to follow Echo's internal dilemmas. A few things could be made clearer, and it is sometimes difficult to figure out the timing between Zod's and Echo's diary entries. Also the novel's intensity wavers between Zod's murder and the crimes of another predator whom Echo and Zod both meet. The plethora of sexual predators detracts from a single emotional impact. That said, these issues merit discussion, and Nodl presents them without preaching or judging. Purchase where teen drama, such as The Keys to the Golden Firebird (HarperCollins, 2004/VOYA June 2004) or The Alison Rules (HarperCollins, 2004/VOYA December 2004), is popular.

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One year after her older sister Zoe's murder, Zoe's former boyfriend gives fifteen-year-old Echo her sister's diary. Skeptical about the diary containing any revelations, Echo sets it aside. Echo's curiosity eventually peaks and she digs in. While reading through the entries, Echo discovers that Zoe kept many secrets. Zoe's diary details the mysterious events that preceded her brutal murder. After Zoe's killers' capture and subsequent conviction, her family and friends gather around Zoe's new honorary park bench to celebrate her life. This well-written story is both tragic and optimistic. Besides coping with her own grief, Echo must deal with the additional pressure of being overprotected by her numb, pill-popping mother and her absentee father. Echo decides to have a heart-to-heart discussion with her parents and this leads to positive changes. Zoe's family members and friends demonstrate that love and memories do not have to die along with the loved one. Noel's novel will remind readers to appreciate the people in their lives. Reviewer: Mary Jo Edwards

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Gr 7-10
Fifteen-year-old Echo was a typical teen until last year, when her older sister was murdered. Now she is treated like a pariah by the other students, who whisper behind her back. She is struggling to come to grips with her grief and life without Zoë, and her parents are numb and have become overprotective. Zoë was the rebel, the bad one, while Echo has always been the good girl. While the killer has been caught, shadows still surround the possible role Zoë's boyfriend played in her death. When he gives Echo her sister's diary, it is her opportunity to find out what really happened. Reading the journal takes Echo into Zoë's secret world and interactions with people scarier than she ever imagined. The story reveals the hidden dangers of social networking on the Internet and date-rape drugs. Noël gets the message across without being preachy; readers will learn from it and enjoy the novel's suspense and intrigue.
—Sheilah KoscoCopyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780312355104
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 9/28/2007
Pages: 240
Sales rank: 392,010
Age range: 13 - 17 Years
Lexile: 1040L (what's this?)
Product dimensions: 5.44 (w) x 8.25 (h) x 0.63 (d)

Meet the Author

ALYSON NOEL lives in Laguna Beach, California, where she is working on her next book.

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One

They say there are five stages of grief:

1. Denial

2. Anger

3. Bargaining

4. Depression

5. Acceptance

Up until last year I didn't know there were lists like that. I had no idea people actually kept track of these things. But still, even if I had known, I never would've guessed that just a few days before my fourteenth birthday I'd be stuck in stage one.

But then you never think that kind of bad news will knock on your door. Because those kinds of stories, the kind that involve a stone-faced newscaster interrupting your favorite TV show to report a crucial piece of “late breaking news,” are always about someone else's unfortunate family. They're never supposed to be about yours.

But what made it even worse is that I was the first to know.

Well, after the cops.

And, of course, Zoë.

Not to mention the freak who was responsible for the whole mess in the first place.

And even though they didn't exactly say anything other than “May we please speak to your parents?” It was the regret on those two detectives' faces, the defeat in their weary eyes, that pretty much gave it all away.

It was after school and I was home alone, trying to keep to my standard cookie-eating, TV-watching, homework-avoiding routine, even though I really couldn't concentrate on any of it. I mean, normally at 4:10 p.m. both my parents would still be at work, my sister, Zoë, would be out with her boyfriend, and I would be sitting cross-legged on the floor, wedged between the couch and the coffee table, dunking Oreos into a tall glass of cold milk until my teeth were all black, the milk was all sopped up, and my stomach was all swollen and queasy.

So I guess in a way I was just trying to emulate all of that, go through the motions, and pretend everything was normal. That my parents weren't really out searching for Zoë, and that I wasn't already in denial long before I had good reason to be.

But now, almost a year later, I can honestly say that I'm able to check off stages one through three, and am settling into stage five. Though sometimes, in the early morning hours, when the house is quiet and my parents are still asleep, I find myself regressing toward four. Especially now that September's here, putting us just days away from the one-year anniversary of the last time Zoë shimmied up the big oak tree, climbed onto my balcony, and came in through my unlocked french doors.

I remember rolling over and squinting against the morning light, watching as she pressed her index finger to her smiling lips, her short red nail like the bottom of an upside-down exclamation point, as she performed her exaggerated, cartoonish, stealth tiptoe through my room, out my door, and down the hall.

Sometimes now, when I think back on that day, I add a whole new scene. One where, instead of turning over and falling back to sleep, I say something important, something meaningful, something that would've let her know, beyond all doubt, just how much I loved and admired her.

But the truth is, I didn't say anything.

I mean, how was I supposed to know that was the last time I'd ever see her?

Two

When the woman at the funeral home, the one in the long floral dress, with the frizzy french braid, asked for a picture of Zoë, my mom dropped her head in her hands and sobbed so hysterically that my dad pulled her close, clenched his jaw, and nodded firmly, as though he was already working on it.

I stared at the toe of my black Converse sneaker, noticing how the fabric was wearing thin, and wondering what that lady could possibly need a picture for. I guess it seemed like a weird request, considering how pretty much everywhere you looked in our town you'd see a picture of Zoë. And since my sister was always so elusive and hard to pin down in life, it seemed like I actually saw more of her after her disappearance than I had when she lived down the hall.

First there were the two “missing person” flyers taped to just about every available surface. One a stiff, grainy, black-and-white grabbed in a panic and copied from last year's yearbook. The other, one of Zoë's more recent headshots, depicting her as beautiful, loose, and happy, more like the sister I knew, that also included a generous reward for anyone with any information, no questions asked.

And then, as the days ticked by, her face started appearing just about everywhere-in newspapers, magazines, and nationally televised news reports. Even the makeshift memorial, built by well-wishers and propped up in front of our house, contained so many candles, poems, stuffed animals, angels, and photos of Zoë that it threatened to take over the entire street until my dad enlisted a neighbor's help and hauled it all away.

The funny thing was, Zoë had always dreamed of being a model, an actress, someone famous and admired by all. She longed for the day when she could escape our small, boring town, and go somewhere glamorous, like L.A., or New York, just someplace exciting and far from here. And so, while we were out searching, while we were busy smothering our doubt with hope, I played this kind of game in my head where I pretended that all of this was great exposure for Zoë and her future as a famous person. Like it was the ultimate casting call. And I spent those long, empty, thankless moments imagining how excited she'd be when she finally came home and saw her face plastered all across the nation.

But then later, in the mortuary, as I watched my parents make the world's most depressing arrangements, encouraged into credit card debt by the man in the stark black suit who guided them toward the most luxurious casket, the most abundant flowers, and the whitest doves-sparing no expense at her memory-I sat wide-eyed, realizing the lucrative business of loss, while wondering if my mom got the irony behind Zoë's ambition and the woman's request, and if that's why she was crying so hard.

But then, I guess there were millions of reasons to cry that day. So it's not like I had to go searching for The One.

I didn't know why that woman wanted a photo, but I doubted my dad, grief stricken and distracted, would ever remember to give her one. So after they'd signed away their savings and were headed out the door, I reached into my old blue nylon wallet, the one with the surf brand sticker still partially stuck to the front, its edges frayed and curled all around, and retrieved the photo Zoë had given me just a few weeks before, the one that showcased her large dark eyes, generous smile, high cheekbones, and long wavy, dark hair. The one she'd planned to send to the big New York and L.A. agencies.

“Here,” I said, pressing it into the woman's soft, round hand, watching as she did the quick intake of breath I was so used to seeing when confronted with an image of Zoë for the very first time.

She looked at me and smiled, the fine lines around her blue eyes merging together until almost joining as one. “I'll be doing her makeup, and I want to get it just right. So, thank you-” She left that last part dangling, looking embarrassed that she knew all about my loss, but didn't know my name.

“Echo.” I smiled. “My name is Echo. And you can keep the picture. Zoë would've liked that.” Then I ran outside to catch up with my parents.

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TeensReadToo

Posted November 15, 2008

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Reviewed by Jennifer Wardrip, aka "The Genius" for TeensReadToo.com

Fifteen-year-old Echo has had to deal with more tragedy than anyone, regardless of age, should have to bear. Her parents' relationship is made up of alternating periods of arguments and silence. Her two best friends, Abby and Jenay, seem to be drifting apart -- from her, and from each other. She has a boyfriend named Parker, a great guy that she can't seem to work up any emotion towards. And her older sister, Zoe, is still dead and gone.

Echo and Zoe could not have been more different. Echo is diligent in her studies, quite happy to take the quiet path of least resistance. Zoe, on the other hand, had the sunny, naive disposition that led her to live life however the mood struck her. In fact, it was that same sweet and fun personality that may have led to her death.

Zoe's boyfriend, Marc, is still struggling to deal with the death of the girl he loved. However, he has something that has helped him a great deal; something that he decides to give to Echo, to help her know the sister who no longer is. Zoe left her diary with Marc the last time they were together, and he's held onto it ever since. Now it's Echo's, and, at first, she resists reading it. After all, she already knew everything there was to know about Zoe, right? Turns out, not so much.

As Echo becomes immersed in the last few months of Zoe's life, she learns that she really didn't know her sister at all. The struggles, the insecurities, the traumas that her sister faced and never spoke about -- these aren't things that Echo would have ever associated with her bright, popular sister. As she delves deeper, into both the diary and the need to be like Zoe, Echo learns that although her sister will never return, she will always live in Echo's memory -- and in the justice that Echo is determined to get in her sister's name.

Although Alyson Noel is best known for her lighter, contemporary stories, she has taken a serious, heartbreaking plot line and turned it into a winner that you'll never forget. I found myself as immersed into Zoe's life as Echo did, and found it hard to put the book down the entire time I was reading. Ms. Noel has done an awesome job with this weightier subject matter, and I hope to read more stories in this vein from her in the future.

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Sarah7498

Posted October 24, 2010

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Saving Zoe by Alyson Noel

I've been a fan of Alyson Noel since I first started reading, about two and a half years ago. Saving Zoe is definitely not like her other books, with the topic of dealing with a sister's death, but I found that it wasn't written much differently either. I didn't connect with any of the characters, but I didn't not connect with them either, if that makes any since; and some parts of this story were written kind of poorly. It had about as much depth as her novel Kiss and Blog, which is a completely different topic. I think it may have something to do with the short time period between the release dates of the two books, about four months. Overall, this story is nothing special: not amazing but not terrible. Would I recommend this book? I might suggest it to people looking for boyfriend drama and friend drama, but not to anyone looking for a deep, emotional book.

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Chandler

Posted November 29, 2009

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Its like a black hole pulling you in.

Wow.This book is unforgetable so amazing and real to life. I reccomend it to anyone in the mood for an excellent entertaining unforgettable book. I just read it and couldnt put it down,simply worth rereading. Any opprutuniy you get read/buy this book!! I LOVE it!

An amazed fan,
Chandler 12.

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Anonymous

Posted October 16, 2009

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Fantastic!

This book was so good! I couldn't put it down! It is a must read and is worth buying.

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Anonymous

Posted September 6, 2008

Emotional and Beautiful

On Echo's fourteenth birthday, she received the worst present ever: new of the disappearance and death of her older sister Zoë. This pain is hard for Echo to deal with, and she still struggles even a year later. Echo is now fifteen and just starting high school with her best friends Abby and Jenay. The only hard thing about this is seeing Zoë's old friends and Marc, Zoë's boyfriend. Echo still isn't over the death of her sister. She feels pretty empty around her friends and her new boyfriend Parker. So when Marc gives Echo Zoë's diary, Echo embraces this chance to better understand her sister before her death. Unfortunately, this also leads Echo to imagining she is Zoë, which only messed up her life even more. Alyson Noël does an incredible job of incorporating Zoë's journal and Echo's high school experiences together and makes the story flow nicely. Echo is sometimes hard to understand, but everything is clarified later. While the story isn't edge-of-your-seat exciting, it is a high worthwhile read is you stick it through, and I was captivated as Echo discovered the truth behind the end of her sister Zoë's life. The story provides a lot to think about involving sisterhood and love. I've only read a couple of books that deal with death, but Saving Zoë is probably one that I will remember the most. It is pure coincidence that I was listening to the song Light up the Sky by Yellowcard as I read the ending of this book, but I highly recommend you do this too. The song reminds me so much of Zoë and Marc's relationship, and it definitely heightens the emotions of the ending, as music often does in movies. Saving Zoë appeals to a wide audience, but I suggest you read it only if you are up for an emotional ride. Fans of Sweethearts by Sara Zarr and The Year My Sister Got Lucky by Aimee Friedman will understand the bonds of love between sister and friends presented in Saving Zoë. People who were moves by Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher, Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin, and other books regarding dealing with death will also find this a very worthwhile read.

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Anonymous

Posted June 24, 2008

This book is great.

This book had some mature content. I think all girls should read it to show the risks of internet blogging, drugs, and drinking, all of the things Echo's sister, Zoe, is involved with. I would recommend this book be read by 6th graders and up. I also think the parent should read the book first before they give it to anyone under 13, to make sure they want them to know of those things in life. Otherwise it is a great book full of great life lessons for any young adult to know.

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Anonymous

Posted January 30, 2012

Great Book! You Should definitely check it out!

Savine Zoe is about a fifteen year old girl, Echo, just going into high school and just being a typical teen. About a year ago her sister,Zoe, got murdered. Her and her sister had a great relationship and its been hard for her to let go and stop grieving. With all this beign said she is trying to overcome her everyday batlles with one hgue one that will be the hardest. One day her sisters ex-boyfriend Marc shows up with Zoe's diary and at the moment Echo has no interest in it. Her curiousity convinces her to see what was going on in her head. Once she started reading she discovered her sister's secret life. Even though she and Zoe were close and she thought she pretty much knew everything about her, she found a pretty big life that no one would've guess or knew she had not even Echo. Echo is one of the main characters and she has the most struggles to overcome and no one understands her. Since her sister was murdered she doesn't know who she is. Marc is trying to help Echo and also trying to prove to people he had nothing to do with Zoe being murdered. This book is very moving because it seems so real. I loved this book it was very well written. In this book i felt like i was Echo and i was experiencing all of these things. This book was very believable i would've thought it was a true story. The genre to me is Drama. This book is very good and i recommend it to anyone that likes a book that you feel like your experiencing what is happening. It is very well written and i hope you take the time to read a good book.
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BooksWithBite

Posted June 7, 2011

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Great book!

Ms. Noel, I am in love with your writing. I thought your paranormal books had me hooked, but boy was I ever wrong!

What had me in admiration of this book was the feel of it. Ms. Noel writing is not only easy to read, but easy to fall in the main character. From the very first chapter, you see Echo struggling with so much in her life. She is so young yet she acts so mature in the handling the situation of her sisters death. Echo is searching for so many answers that the help of an unlikely component opens so many new doors. As the reader follows Echo, we see her finally discovering her sister. Echo thought she knew, but Zoe was holding so many secrets.

For me, as I was reading this, I experienced Echo's heartbreaking search for answers. Why? Because Ms. Noel's writing is so good in coming into know the characters and their feelings. I felt Echo's pain and joy in finding answers. Though the answers were not want Echo thought they be but it taught her a very important lesson. That she didn't know her sister, and now she knows. The whole element of the book changes for that simple reason.

Saving Zoe is not only about saving Zoe but as well as saving Echo. Echo was left with questions unanswered that she needed them to move on. Echo's struggle in this book is so significant in who she becomes at the end of the book. This is a great read that I can read again. Beautifully written and strongly proposed, this book will grab you at your heart.
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Anonymous

Posted August 13, 2010

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Saving Zoe is a heart felt book where a girl has to uncover her older sisers passed to find the turth about her death. Echo (the main character and younger siser) is a young girl who is just going to be a freshmen in high school when her older sister is murdered. Echo has to find out the turth about zoe's life and the only thing she has left is zoe's diary that she got from zoe's exboyfriend. As she reads zoe's diary she learns so much about her sister that she would have never know if she had not found her diary. She questions the trust of some of zoe's friends and Marc (zoe's exboyfriend) as she reads more and more about zoe's seacrt life. This book is great for a person looking to read about the hardship of a teen age girls life and the love of two sisters!
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Anonymous

Posted June 20, 2010

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Saving Zoe <3

wow , this book is so amazing ! if you buy any book by alyson noel (besides the immortal series) buy this one! you wont regret it. i promise!i read this book in a day, i just couldnt keep my eyes off of it. i found myself sometimes wanting to cry because its so realistic. its things that happen to most people: LOSS. What the whole book is about is a young teen girl whos sister got murdered. She thinks she knows her sister so well but in reality she doesnt. She starts finding things out about her sister that she never knew she did . She gets all this information by hers sisters diary that she had. She gets to know her sister on a whole new level and she gets to be in her sisters world when she reads in her diary. its on of my all time favorite books. :) it was sad but an eye opener too. Give the book a try and buy it :) it is so worth the money , i PROMISE you wont regret it. -jackiee Lynn <333
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Anonymous

Posted December 20, 2009

Very Good!

i brought this book because it costed me a couple of dollars. I thought it would be boring but after i read, i take my word back. It was wonderful!
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breathe_no_more

Posted September 5, 2009

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I loved this book!

Love it more than I thought I would. At first I wasnt going to get it because I cry over books and I am just really emotional, but I thought about it and grabbed it. When I got home I read it all only stopping to wipe my eyes and use the bathroom. I connected with Zoe's charactor about how you just want to get out of your town and you will do just about anything to reach you dream, but unfortunatly while Zoe was reaching her dream she also reached the end of her life. Echo who is Zoe's little sister got Zoe's diary from Zoe's boyfriend. Echo finds out so much about Zoe and her life but in the process of reading Zoe's diary Echo realizes how much she wants to be like Zoe and how she would do anything to save her sisters name and memory, from small town gossip. All in all it is an amazing book and I wish I would have found out about it earlier.
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Toriiiii

Posted July 25, 2009

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Readdd it.

simply a great book.
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Posted July 14, 2009

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hmmm...

i this book was just okay for me. i did find it sad but not cry worthy sad. you just want to scream at the character zoe for being so stupid, i mean come on how could you not have known. especially with all of the information given to you at school and home. also the zoe's live was very dramatic. one crazy thing after another. it made echo seem like a loser as a kid which i didn't like. i thought the character echo was very realistic and relatable. i thought the author did well with the writing. it didn't seem rushed and it had the perfect ending.
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Caroline81

Posted June 22, 2009

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Alright

Saving Zoe was a book I read because my friends were absolutely in love with it. but i cannot seem to grasp their infatuation with this book. i found it to be very disturbing and inappropriate. The fact that the author makes the fact of having sex while being as young as 16 is quite disturbing. This book was a lot about sex and drugs and teenage girls need to fit in. This book didn't really express how teenagers really act in school. Most kids don't act like that and I think the characters were very over-done. The ending was much better than the beginning. This book is about a girl, Echo, who's sister, Zoe, was murdered. Echo reads Zoe's diary in hopes of remembering her and understanding her crazy sister a little better. In the end, the author does give an inmportant lesson and wraps up everything nicely. It's a quick read so i recommend trying it... who knows, you may love it.
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Danielle33

Posted June 15, 2009

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zoey and echo

omigod. any teenage girl alive has got to read this book. i hate reading sooo much. but the second i read the first chapter of this i couldnt put it down. this book shows both emotional moments and halarious moments that made me wana pee my pants. but this book is for any teenager girl. i read it at 14 and i read it over and over agian. it is an addiction. i bought it for me and i actually bought copys for my friends and they got hooked too! this is the best book i have ever read and im sooo glad that i read it!
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BookReviews8

Posted June 8, 2009

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Saving Zoë by Alyson Noël

"It feels so good to finally have her back, that I switch off the light and close my eyes, Saving Zoë for another day." I read the book Saving Zoë by Alyson Noël. This book is about realizing the whole other side to someone who is close to your heart. Zoë, is murdered; it was taking long for Echo to get over this, until Zoë's former boyfriend shows up with Zoë's diary. She notices how there was a whole other side to her that she never knew about. As Echo keeps reading she realizes how exactly Zoë had gotten murdered.

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Anonymous

Posted June 7, 2009

Gets you Emotionally Attatched

At first it was hard to grab my attention but by the second chapter I could not stop. I had to know how it ended and felt like I had to save Zoe too.
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Pennley_Love

Posted May 2, 2009

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Five Stars Worth

This book was amazing. I read it in a day, because I honostly couldn't put it down. It was heart-wrenching, and I cried. But, I also laughed a lot. It was startling in some parts, and really got me thinking. I suggest this book to anyone who loves a great book. It is one of my favorites, and I hope you read it!
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Private_Fanatic

Posted April 29, 2009

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GREAT!!

Sorry I don't have much time. But, this is a great book! It is so emotional and it is about being yourself no matter what. It could actually be true. I would suggest to anyone!

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