Review: Crash

Crash (Visions #1)
by Lisa McMann
Published January 8th 2013
by Simon Pulse

Summary from Goodreads:

If what you see is what you get, Jules is in serious trouble. The suspenseful first of four books from the New York Timesbestselling author of the Wake trilogy.

Jules lives with her family above their restaurant, which means she smells like pizza most of the time and drives their double-meatball-shaped food truck to school. It’s not a recipe for popularity, but she can handle that.

What she can’t handle is the recurring vision that haunts her. Over and over, Jules sees a careening truck hit a building and explode...and nine body bags in the snow.

The vision is everywhere—on billboards, television screens, windows—and she’s the only one who sees it. And the more she sees it, the more shesees. The vision is giving her clues, and soon Jules knows what she has to do. Because now she can see the face in one of the body bags, and it’s someone she knows. Someone she has been in love with for as long as she can remember.

Thoughts:
I had no expectations whatsoever before reading Crash so after finishing it, I was surprised to find it very enjoyable. I know a lot of people are disappointed about the lack of action or the subplot about the supposedly forbidden romance between Jules and Sam but I found it to be quite interesting.

This might sound ironic or strange because I usually don't like the romance element in YA books but I quite like this one. Maybe it's the fact that all the mentions of pastas and pizzas in this book made me salivating for a slice of pepperoni pizza. But Jules and her family is an interesting bunch and it's nice to read about a normal family in a YA book where the parents are actually there and is not conveniently missing.

For me the whole vision plotline is handled well and was so glad that Jules finally got her man in the end. The rivalry between the two families are sometimes exaggerated but in the end it's the kids that change things.

In my Debut Author, Fantasy & Books in a Series Reading Challenge
Verdict: 3 stars.
Available on: Amazon