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Like Never and Always by Ann Aguiree - OPTIONAL

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Like Never and Always by Ann Aguirre , 335 pages.  Tor Teen (Macmillian), 2018.  $18.   Content: Language: R (125+ swears); Mature Content: PG-13; Violence: PG-13.   BUYING ADVISORY: HS- OPTIONAL   AUDIENCE APPEAL: HIGH    Liv and her best friend Morgan are in a serious car accident and when Liv wakes up she is inside Morgan’s body.  Liv’s own physical body is dead and Morgan is gone as well, so Liv has to figure out how to be Morgan.  Soon, Liv realizes that Morgan was keeping a lot of dark secrets as she was trying to solve the mystery of her mother’s death, so if Liv can’t keep ahead of the clues she doesn’t know what will become of her new life.   I couldn’t put this book down.  At first it’s a little weird that they traded bodies, but the author does a great job building this story.  I enjoyed Liv, the mystery, and the romance.  The content is a high swear count, heavy make-out sessions that border on rated R content, drunk driving, suicide and a creepy relationship between a you

An Assasin's Guide to Love and Treason by Virginia Boecker - OPTIONAL

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An Assassin’s Guide to Love and Treason by Virginia Boecker , 373 pages.  Little Brown and Company, 2018.  $18.   Content: Language: R (27 swears; 5 “f”); Mature Content: PG-13; Violence: PG-13.   BUYING ADVIOSRY: MS, HS – OPTIONAL   AUDIENCE APPEAL: HIGH    Katherine’s life is turned upside down when her father is caught, and killed for practicing Catholicism in England during Queen Elizabeth’s Protestant reign.  Fleeing for her life, Katherine goes to London and connects with other prominent men who have secretly worshiped and she agrees to be a player in a plan to assassinate the queen.  Toby is a spy for the queen and catches word that there is going to be an attempt on Elizabeth’s life, so he devises a way to lure the assassins out through a carefully written play by William Shakespeare.  Toby and Katherine are both caught off guard when their paths cross and they realize their similarities and differences.   My favorite part was the historical setting in this well plotted advent