But just before the surgery, Elissa discovers she hasn’t been hallucinating at all. They take her to doctor after doctor, and finally, when Elissa is 17, a new specialist decides she needs brain surgery to stop these visions. Her friends think she is hurting herself to get attention, and gradually, she has no more friends. When she is thirteen, the visions not only become violent and painful, but she becomes plagued by debilitating headaches, blinding pain, and mysterious bruises. But why doesn’t anyone know about it, and what happens to the second baby?Įlissa (“Lissa”) White has had “visions” her whole life – almost as if she were seeing life from another person’s eyes. That doesn’t mean, however, that births of twins don’t still occur. However, there are also serious dystopian elements to this future, and this is where the book distinguishes itself. But they also live in a world like The Jetsons – there are flying cars and moving sidewalks and food that appears with the push of a button. Yet, you would never know it: the teenage protagonists bully each other in high school gym classes, hang out at the mall, and defy their parents. This story takes place more than a thousand years into the future, on another planet colonized long ago from Old Earth.
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