Preview Review: When the World was Flat (and we were in love)

When the World was Flat (And we were in love)
Author: Ingrid Jonach

Publication Date: September 3rd 2013
Source : Received a digital ARC via Angry Robot/Strange Chemistry and Netgalley. (In exchange for an honest review. Thank you!)

Looking back, I wonder if I had an inkling that my life was about to go from ordinary to extraordinary.

When sixteen-year-old Lillie Hart meets the gorgeous and mysterious Tom Windsor-Smith for the first time, it's like fireworks - for her, anyway. Tom looks as if he would be more interested in watching paint dry; as if he is bored by her and by her small Nebraskan town in general.
But as Lillie begins to break down the walls of his seemingly impenetrable exterior, she starts to suspect that he holds the answers to her reoccurring nightmares and to the impossible memories which keep bubbling to the surface of her mind - memories of the two of them, together and in love.
When she at last learns the truth about their connection, Lillie discovers that Tom has been hiding an earth-shattering secret; a secret that is bigger - and much more terrifying and beautiful - than the both of them. She also discovers that once you finally understand that the world is round, there is no way to make it flat again.

 Review
Before I even go into detail... and well, to be a inclusive tease...

WHY.DID.YOU.DO.THAT.TO.ME?

Secondly, look at the pretty cover!

Thirdly, I couldn't stop listening to Amy Hit the Atmosphere- Counting Crows and Begin Again- Measure, while reading.

Fourthly (?) Such an appropriate title.


I have a soft spot for reincarnation stories, mainly when I'm in a sappy mood, you know and it's the only time I can almost approve of insta-love, though there wasn't any of that in this, more hot-cold kind of love, for a reason. Not knowing much about When the World was Flat (And we were in love) when I started reading, I didn't even know it was one.

Technically, it isn't, but we'll get to that later.

A few months ago Lillie Hart started having nightmares, real, scary, death nightmares. She watches herself get killed countless of times, the first one even caused a nosebleed. When she catches the eyes of Tom Windsor-Smith, the new guy at Green Grove Central High School, though not entirely new to the town,  over lunch in the cafeteria something changed in Lillie before she even knew it had, a war she unseeingly won. The fact that she knew Tom had a scar under his chin, but didn't know how, and how familiar he looked but didn't know why. How she felt so affected by his appearance and why Tom was seemingly unaffected and a bit of a jerk. A jerk whose locker is next to hers.

As the story unfolds...

Well, you're going to have to read it. I'm not going to tell you.

Zip. Mouth. Closed.

 

Rating; 4/5 

 

 

Full review to come mid August!