![]() ![]() Tavia’s low-tech revelation via ChapStick works better than any superbattle to convey what’s at stake in her life and choices. ![]() Though Pike’s plot points may riff a little too blatantly on the zeitgeist, her solid writing, particularly in her descriptions, will have readers hooked. Nor do the important people in her life-Elizabeth, an uncannily insightful therapist, and Benson, a sympathetic library intern-encourage her to ignore the growing strangeness. ![]() She tries to attribute these visions to the brain injury she sustained in the crash, but she can’t dismiss the stalker with a blond ponytail so easily. She has time to look at the world with attentive eyes, and what she sees is often unnerving: glowing triangles on the historic houses of Portsmouth, N.H., or pedestrians who flicker. See the complete Earthbound series book list in order. Tavia, the 18-year-old survivor, is in rehab and finishing her senior year online. The Earthbound book series by Aprilynne Pike includes books Earthbound, Earthquake, and Earthrise. Pike (the Wings series) opens a new series with a plane crash, and soon lays out more themes popular in recent YA-inexplicable survival, loss of memory, an unknown stalker, apocalyptic showdown, and the protagonist’s transcendent secret identity. ![]()
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