A crack in the line book review

However, in the other life, his mother had a girl instead of a boy. Alaraic comes face-to-face with his female counterpart, Naia. Naia and Alaric meet, and try to make sense of what happened. Naia discovers she can travel to Alaric's world just as he did to hers. Alternate realities are the theme of this gloomily introspective novel. Exactly two years after his mother was killed in a railway accident, English teenager Alaric finds a way into a version of his life in which his mother has not only survived the train crash, but gone on to win a tidy sum in the lottery.

What's more, in this not-quite-parallel world, Alaric himself exists as a girl named Naia "We're variants of a single individual," as Naia puts it.

Once the two year-olds meet, they cannot resist spending the next few days exploring each other's worlds. Alaric mostly just envies Naia, while she does what she can to help her unhappy counterpart she even tidies a few rooms in his version of their home. Back in his own reality, Alaric and his aunt set to work readying the house for the arrival of Alaric's future stepmother.

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Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. What if someone else was living your life? You reach out your hands t What if someone else was living your life? Get A Copy. Paperback , pages. Published August 23rd by Greenwillow Books first published January 1st More Details Original Title. Aldous Lexicon 1. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up.

To ask other readers questions about A Crack in the Line , please sign up. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. When Alaric and Naia, two teens who are essentially the same person living the same life in alternate realities, stumble across each other one day, neither can believe the truth before them. How is it possible, and why all of a sudden can they now enter each other's realities?

Their search for answers sets off a chain of events, causing the lines between their worlds to blur, something that threatens to rearrange — and even erase — their very existence.

I What if someone else was living your life? I first read this book back in middle school. Though I was super intrigued by the book, I never got around to finishing the series. I was such a fickle reader back then.

I always vowed to return to it one day. Pleased to say that upon rereading it's still as intriguing as I remember, however it doesn't feel like a book that can effectively stand on it's own. Part of a book instead of a whole. Also the ending for me, despite being a major shift for Alaric and Naia, felt a bit rushed and slightly underwhelming. Luckily it's only the first of three volumes. Having so many more questions than answers at this point, I'm definitely curious to see how this story plays out.

Apr 12, Emma added it. Alaric and Naia Underwood both live in an old Victorian house in a small village. They both have dark hair and the same nose and the same parents.

They even have the same bedroom. When Alaric travels to an alternate timeline, he meets Naia, who is the female version of himself Alaric and Naia Underwood both live in an old Victorian house in a small village. When Alaric travels to an alternate timeline, he meets Naia, who is the female version of himself. Naia has been living the perfect life that Alaric could only dream of until he saw it for himself.

Together, Alaric and Naia try to understand how they could both exist and meet one another. But things become even more complicated when Alaric discovers that there are other alternate realities.

The first book in the Aldous Lexico trilogy follows two different versions of the same person, one female and one male. This book provides an in depth look into how one variable can alter so much and how one decision can change your life.

Everything was thought out perfectly and the idea that started the story is expanded on throughout the novel.

There is a reasonable although complicated reason for Alaric and Naia being able to visit the alternate worlds, which some stories with similar plots lack. I was a bit worried about reading a book where the two main characters are practically the same person, but there are so many differences between Naia and Alaric, not only from their different sexes but also from Alaric losing his mother while Naia did not.

For this reason, Naia is much more well adjusted and happier, and also had more time and energy to put into her schoolwork, making her smarter than Alaric. The one flaw that comes to mind is that at times the story was slow moving, but the twist ending made me want to pick up the sequel right away. If you live outside of the U. A Crack in the Line was an intelligent and unique story that took a great concept and expanded on it enough to make something amazing.

View 1 comment. Alaric lives with his father in their old Victorian by the river Ouse in England. In Alaric's reality, she did not. One day Alaric touches a piece of artwork made by his mother, a tiny oak model of his house, and finds himself looking at a girl so much like him that she could have been his sister. This book was superb. The alternate reality thing could have been a gimmick, but here it's more of a punch in the gut, especially for poor Alaric.

Is it good or bad to know that your dead mother is alive somewhere else, in some other reality, and that your whole life could have gone a lot better or a lot WORSE than it did? This book is part of a trilogy, and I haven't read the other two books, so I'm not sure how it will all end.

If I had a complaint about this one, it's that so far we haven't seen the effects of Alaric's choices on the timelines. They only seem to split in response to chance, which makes it seem like there's no free will in this universe. However, that might be an artifact of having read just the first third of the larger story.

Shelves: young-adult-book-discussion-group. Aggregate review from young adult book discussion: Interesting but confusing! It was very hard to keep track of what was going on and which "world" everyone was in. Sometimes the descriptions of the houses and their furnishings was a little boring - who cares about wallpaper?!

The ending definitely leaves the reader knowing there is more to the story. Not sure if we would recommend to others. We really wish this book was combined into one with the ot Aggregate review from young adult book discussion: Interesting but confusing! We really wish this book was combined into one with the other two parts of the trilogy. Shelves: baruch-hs A crack in the line is a story about to children- Alaric and Naia who are similar in every way.

Their houses are identical, their rooms face the same direction, and they even live on the same road- yet they've never met. All is fine until they finally do meet- and when they do, they learn something that has a catastrophic affect on them.

A crack in the line was a book that had eluded me time and time again. The start is extremely slow, and quite frankly boring.

I find the plot to be quite dull, A crack in the line is a story about to children- Alaric and Naia who are similar in every way. I find the plot to be quite dull, and often times it seems like Michael Lawrence will drag on for pages about a simple concept.

Jan 29, Bradie rated it it was amazing. Dang i wish this book would continue it leaves you wanting more even though nothing more can be said. It deals with alternate realitys and what happens if things happend the other way instead of how things are now. Like a fifty fifty on life basicly i dont know i guse you will have to read it to get it.

View all 3 comments. I found this book to be really hard to follow and rather boring. No matter how many times I tried to sit and read it, it never caught my attention. Oct 12, Adriana rated it it was amazing.

Alternative realities are the best way to get unique and amazing twists. It's proven through this book. I do remember the sequel's which was messed up More people need to read this story, it's amazing. Jan 07, Ellie Scott rated it it was amazing.

An enticing concept, vividly written. Lawrence has a fluid and vivid writing style and creates believable protagonists in Alaric and Naia. Sep 11, Hafsah Faizal rated it really liked it. Alaric and Naia are closer than siblings - even closer than twins.

They are two versions of the same person, living in two, alternate dimensions, and when their lives are suddenly and inexplicably brought together by a carved model known as Lexie's Folly, they are forced to rethink everything they know about the universe, their families, and themselves. Alaric's mother, Alex Underwood, was involved in a terrible train crash when he was fourteen. She had a fifty-fifty chance of dying. She died. N Alaric and Naia are closer than siblings - even closer than twins.