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Dreaming of Antigone
Dreaming of Antigone
Dreaming of Antigone
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Dreaming of Antigone

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"Heartfelt and emotional." --Rebecca Phillips, author of Faking Perfect

"I can't ever be the blazing star that Iris was. I'm still just a cold, dark satellite orbiting a star that went super nova."

Andria's twin sister, Iris, had adoring friends, a cool boyfriend, a wicked car, and a shelf full of soccer trophies. She had everything, in fact--including a drug problem. Six months after Iris's death, Andria is trying to keep her grades, her friends, and her family from falling apart. But stargazing and books aren't enough to ward off her guilt that she--the freak with the scary illness and all-black wardrobe--is still here when Iris isn't. And then there's Alex Hammond. The boy Andria blames for Iris's death. The boy she's unwittingly started swapping lines of poetry and secrets with, even as she tries to keep hating him.

Heartwrenching, smart, and bold, Dreaming of Antigone is a story about the jagged pieces that lie beneath the surface of the most seemingly perfect life…and how they can fit together to make something wholly unexpected.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateApr 1, 2016
ISBN9781496703552
Dreaming of Antigone
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Robin Bridges

By day, Robin Bridges is a mild-mannered writer of young adult fiction. By night, she’s a pediatric nurse who pokes small children with needles. Robin lives on the Gulf Coast with her family, two dogs, three cats, thirteen fish, and two starfish. She is the author of the historical fantasy series, the Katerina Trilogy, published by Delacorte/Random House. You can learn more about Robin at www.robinbridges.com.

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    I liked this book, but didn’t love it. In some ways, it was too much of a hodgepodge of trendy focal points: beside the parallels to Antigone and an emphasis on poetry and astronomy, there was a blended family, a gay mothers family, a congenital disease, drug abuse, sexual abuse, survivor’s guilt, dealing with depression, and a form of Stockholm Syndrome.Intersecting all of these plot strands is the relationship between Andria, her dead twin Iris, and Iris’s former boyfriend Alex. Alex was in a different place mentally when he was Iris’s boyfriend. Now he is attracted to Andria. And while he is somewhat radically and miraculously a new person now, and Andria is (apparently) quite different than Iris, it never clear why Alex is suddenly focused on Andria, except that she looks like Iris and to add romantic interest. There were things I liked though, such as Andria’s character - her reactions to what was happening around her seemed very honest and believable.I suspect, however, that the relationship made all the more romantic by the poetry connection and looking at the stars will please many young adult readers. And it’s a great cover!

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