Trespassers

August 15, 2022
The fateful love story between a teen girl and a boy from the afterlife continues in this follow-up to Ferryman (2021). Dylan and Tristan crossed over to the land of the living, inhabiting borrowed bodies on borrowed time. Dylan should have died in the train accident that sent her to the wasteland, and Tristan should have kept to his mission there as a ferryman of souls. Now, as Tristan adjusts to modern living and Dylan recovers from her injuries, they discover their actions have dire consequences. Not only did they leave a gap behind that allows wraiths to follow them into the living world, causing havoc wherever they go, but they are also now physically bound to one another, and if they are separated for too long, they will die. Unbeknownst to them both, another ferryman is following Tristan's and Dylan's tracks. This time around, the pair's tale focuses on the very real, very dull world of school, dances, and petty jealousies--in between fighting deadly creatures and the otherworldly forces that wish to keep them apart. The contrast is as stark as the age difference between Dylan and Tristan (she is 15; he has been around for centuries) and as jarring as their love, which is lacking in chemistry. The narrative also follows the more interesting ferryman Susanna as she pines for a different life. Main characters are cued White. A sequel for existing fans only. (Fantasy. 12-16)

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September 15, 2022
Grades 7-10 This sequel begins where Ferryman (2021) left off. Deeply in love and desperate to stay together, Dylan and her ferryman, Tristan, crossed into the real world from the wasteland. Now they face the consequences: first, Dylan must recover from her mortal injuries. Tristan stays by her side in the hospital while adjusting to being human, feeling the blood in his veins, experiencing food and sleep for the first time. And their passage did not go unnoticed. Susanna is heartily sick of being a ferryman and has always been attracted to Tristan. She decides to use her next soul to join him if she can. When gruesome murders are reported near Dylan's crash site, Tristan realizes that they created a hole into the wasteland and wraiths are coming through. This middle volume of the trilogy is less romantic than the first as Tristan and Dylan attend high school and live with Dylan's disapproving mother. While the world building requires suspension of disbelief, readers who fell into the first will eagerly follow Dylan and Tristan's journey.

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