While You Were Gone (Duplexity Series #2)

by Amy K. Nichols

Overview

An artist without a cause meets a rebel without a clue.
 
Eevee is a promising young artist and the governor’s daughter in a city where censorship is everywhere and security is everything. When a fire devastates her exhibition—years in the making—her dreams of attending an elite art institute are dashed. She’s struggling to find inspiration when she meets Danny, a boy from a different world. Literally.
 
Raised in a foster home, Danny has led a life full of hurt and hardship until a glitch in the universe changes everything. Suddenly Danny is living in a home he’s never seen, with parents who miraculously survived the car crash that should have killed them. It’s like he’s a new Danny. But this alternate self has secrets—ties to an underground anarchist group that have already landed him in hot water. When he starts to develop feelings for Eevee, he’s even more disturbed to learn that he might have started the fire that ruined her work.
 
As Danny sifts through clues from his past and Eevee attempts to piece together her future, they uncover a secret that’s bigger than both of them. . . . And together, they must correct the breach between the worlds before it’s too late.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780385753920
Publisher:	Random House Children's Books
Publication date:	08/04/2015
Series:	Duplexity Series , #2
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 8.30(h) x 3.80(d)
Lexile:	HL610L (what's this?)
Age Range:	12 - 17 Years

About the Author

AMY K. NICHOLS lives on the edge of the Phoenix desert with her husband and children. In the evenings, she enjoys sitting outside, counting bats and naming stars. Sometimes she names the bats. Now that You’re Here was her first novel, and While You Were Gone is her second.

Editorial Reviews

"Tense and exciting . . . Danny and Eevee have off-the-charts chemistry." —Kirkus Reviews

"The sci-fi backstory adds a thought-provoking undercurrent to a sweet love story that revolves around larger societal issues." —Booklist

From the Publisher

2015-05-12
The other half of the parallel-universe story begun in Now That You're Here (2014). No recap's given, as this story has the same starting point as the previous novel, just different narrators: the other Danny, who wakes up in a different dimension, and the Eevee native to it. This Eevee's a passionate artist instead of an academic; the daughter of the powerful governor, she nevertheless chafes against the widespread political censorship of art. Despite the big changes between worlds (this Phoenix is on the coast), the biggest shock for Danny is discovering that in this dimension his parents are alive. This Danny and Eevee are connected by fate and by this universe's Warren, still a supergenius and Eevee's friend but also with secret ties to various entities, including the anti-government group the other Danny was involved in prior to the explosion. Danny and Eevee have off-the-charts chemistry. The nonromantic storylines—Eevee's competition for a shot at a foreign art school placement and Danny's quick immersion in his parallel self's light rebellion via graffiti—allow the characters to develop outside of their romance. The overarching plot involves fighting the increasingly dystopian society's latest and most-intrusive-yet surveillance program, and it weaves seamlessly into the dimension hopping. The novel's tense and exciting throughout, but the ending is far too abrupt and will leave readers demanding the next installment promptly. Appropriately enough, lots of fun on multiple levels. (Science fiction. 12 & up)

Kirkus Reviews