


The teenage girl is powerless to refuse when this strange and unusual man with an air of the sinister directs her to perform a task with potentially scandalous consequences. The premise: From the inside jacket cover, “Our life is brief…While vacationing at the beach with her mother, Sasha Samokhina meets the mysterious Farit Kozhennikov under the most peculiar circumstances. The main image is copyright Josephine Cardin/Trevillion Images and the texture is copyright Black Digital Cat/Shutterstock. The authors’ names are at the bottom and translator Julia Meitov Hersey’s name is just under theirs. A blurb from Lev Grossman is just above the title, while under the text is the image of the young woman. I like how the title is covered in golden droplets that match the text. Weird, odd, and a perfect image for this book that warrants the same adjectives. The cover: A black background shows a girl with her head turned to the right, away from the reader, as she seemingly is engulfed by water, though the liquid does not go below her shoulders.

Published by Harper Voyager on November 13, 2018.
