batrock 's review for:

Never Fade by Alexandra Bracken

3.0

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Never Fade adds some shades of grey to Ruby's world. It's a bridge book but it does a decent job of having its own story and contextualising Ruby's fears. It's also an object lesson in YA's capacity for suspension of disbelief: if this was for older readers Bracken might feel compelled to explain precisely how the US government managed to get away with throwing all of its children in concentration camps.*

*We could do with an explanation of this in real life, to be honest.