![]() ![]() ![]() Poor Jem: you know there is so much hurt under all her scorching hardness. This was an interesting, fast-paced read. Together they witness an event that changes everything, and suddenly Jem is racing against a clock that only she knows is ticking. ![]() The cards change, though, when another outsider refuses to be blown off and Jem slowly begins to let someone under her skin. Shuffled from one foster home to the next, she’s created a tough shield of “couldn’t care less” and has effectively enabled herself to go through life not feeling close to a single person. For any regular person, this knowledge would make life extremely stressful and complicated, but Jem’s life isn’t even regular. It took her a while to figure it out, but that number is the date that person is going to die. For Jem, every person she meets, every person she sees, comes with a number. ![]()
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