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I feel like I should put a disclosure in this review — Lizzie Skurnick is my best friend.

The problem with such a disclosure is, of course, that Skurnick and I have never met. (I hope Skurnick isn’t now on the phone to her lawyers, reporting me as a potential delusional stalker). But having read Skurnick’s essays on teen books, Shelf Discovery, I am convinced that somehow we are friends. How else to explain how she wrote about my favorite books? She has snuck into my house and looked at my bookshelves; she has remembered the titles I have forgotten; she has eavesdropped on my fifth, seventh, ninth grade self as I sat and talked books with my friends.

A Chair, A Fireplace & A Tea Cozy wrote a deeply nice post about the book. No worries: I think as long as one does not feel one is VC ANDREWS’ best friend, one can be considered within the boundaries of the law (moral and actual).