The Cost of All Things

Name: The Cost of All Things
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Maggie Lehrman
ISBN: 9780062365804

Author: Maggie Lehrman

Narrator: Sharmila Devar, Shannon McManus, Jesse Bernstein, Nicholas Dressel

Unabridged: 9 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 05/12/2015

Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Social Themes, Law & Crime

Synopsis

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind meets We Were Liars in this thought-provoking and brilliantly written debut that is part love story, part mystery, part high-stakes drama.What would you pay to cure your heartbreak? Banish your sadness? Transform your looks? The right spell can fix anything…. When Ari's boyfriend Win dies, she gets a spell to erase all memory of him. But spells come at a cost, and this one sets off a chain of events that reveal the hidden—and sometimes dangerous—connections between Ari, her friends, and the boyfriend she can no longer remember.Told from four different points of view, this original and affecting novel weaves past and present in a suspenseful narrative that unveils the truth behind a terrible tragedy.

About Maggie Lehrman

Maggie Lehrman is a writer and editor living in Brooklyn, New York. She grew up outside of Chicago and went on to get a degree in English at Harvard, where she once received a grant to purchase young adult books the library didn't have. During her decade of working as an editor of books for children, she also earned an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She is the author of The Cost of All Things and The Last Best Story.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Emily May

I think this book starts with a wonderful premise. It's a magical realism story - one of my favourite genres - where our world is inhabited by hekamists. Hekamists essentially grant wishes through spells, but every wish comes with a price; a price both monetary and otherwise. For example, wishing fo......more

Goodreads review by Glire

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind meets We Were Liars? 2015 Reading Challenge #39:A book with magic. 1,5 ESTRELLAS. Yo soy una de esas relativamente escasas personas que AMÓ We Were Liars, y una mas entre los millones de personas que aman Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, así que cuando......more

Goodreads review by Lauren

I received a free copy via edelweiss for review purposes. First Impression:I'm not entirely sure what to rate this, so for now it's remaining blank. I'll have to have a long think about it. I've decided, when writing down some of my thoughts, that I actually really enjoyed this. I do think it was per......more