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Radiance #OutOfContext

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Dreamland #OutOfContext

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I liked how the 4th Riley Bloom book had the 4th book's plot be "Riley gets what she's wanted since the first book plus extra'

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Still holding that smile as a huge logging truck pulls out in front of us, slamming into the side of our car, and making the whole world go black.

Chapter 47 summary: The next morning, as the entire Bloom family is getting ready to go to the cabin for the weekend, Ever finds the note from her future self. She has no idea what it means or why she'd write such a thing. But with her family getting angry at her for holding them up, she tosses it onto the floor and decides she'll deal with it when she comes home.

We skip over the weekend, mercifully. Ever feels as though the time away from everything was a great way for her to sort through her feelings. She's ready to message Brandon and set things right. But as they're packing up to leave, again, Ever feels like something isn't quite right. Riley is sent to prod her along, and says that dad found her cheerleader sweatshirt by the lake, and it's in the car. (It was the reason why Ever asked them to turn around, and thus, the inadvertent cause of their accident.)

As they're going along the freeway, Riley turns to Ever and says some super creepy stuff about letting the past be, and that this isn't Ever's destiny. And then a truck slams into their car.

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"Don't worry. Go to sleep. There's no such thing as ghosts."

Chapter 46 summary: Ever gets into a fight with Riley because she's a big girl now, and doesn't like being bossed around.

Later, Ever invited her boyfriend over. But then he gets offended that “come over, my little sister's in bed!” doesn't instantly translate to sex. He's like “Figure things out!” as he puts his pants on, and then he leaves.

Riley then comes downstairs, afraid of the scary thing Ever told her was too scary.

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Wondering, not for the first time, just what the heck is going on with me.

So the time-travel bit seems to have worked. Ever is a few days before the accident that killed her parents. But something is not quite right, and she feels it with everything that she does. The only actual clue she has is the horseshoe bracelet, which she can't remember ever actually getting.

She quickly brushes off her friend and her boyfriend (whom she doesn't even like all that much anymore), in order to “babysit” Riley that night. Who is still twelve, last I checked, and not 2, but the book seems to be treating her like she is.

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"Forget it," she says. "Little people have sticky fingers and big ears, you can't trust 'em.”

Riley is 12, not 2.

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I watch, my gaze glued to the screen, gasping as she raises her hand, presses her finger to the crystal, and is pulled back in time.

Chapter 29 summary: Ever goes back to the Summerland. Apparently, something that she struggled to do is now as easy as cake for her... if only because the plot demands it. But anyway, she goes to the temple, where she thinks “how do I make things like they once were?” She goes into a room, but then realizes that the room is an almost exact replica of her childhood living room, down to how she and Riley had carved their initials into their dad's chair.

A screen pops up and says something about how the sky is always darkest before dawn. She then watches herself on the screen and she apparently time-travels!!