In the summer after graduation, Autumn and Finny reconnect and are finally ready to be more than friends. Growing up, Autumn and Finny were like peas in a pod despite their differences: Autumn is “quirky and odd,” while Finny is “sweet and shy and everyone like him.” But in eighth grade, Autumn and Finny stop being friends due to an unexpected kiss. They drift apart and find new friends, but their friendship keeps asserting itself at parties, shared holiday gatherings and random encounters.
The finely drawn characters capture readers’ attention in this debut.Īutumn and Phineas, nicknamed Finny, were born a week apart their mothers are still best friends.
An author usually good for clever premises and smart, likable characters has gone from talespinner to wheel spinner here. Restored to visibility, William steals away in the night as Alicia and Bobby snuggle down for a first deep kiss-followed, unsurprisingly, by Alicia’s rhapsodic meditation on same. Having described how she gets around with her seeing-eye dog, fretted at length about whether Bobby is drawn as strongly to her as she is to him and wondered whether William has a secret agenda, Alicia whips out her magic decloaking device. Diluting a thimbleful of plot with a gallon of hand-wringing analysis, he charts repeated encounters between blind Alicia, who narrates, and the invisible William, an ambiguous figure from the previous episode who has followed Alicia’s formerly invisible heartthrob Bobby back to Chicago with a warning that their mutual secret is in danger of coming out. Clements’s second sequel to the excellent Things Not Seen (2002) is even more disappointing than the first, Things Hoped For (2005).
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