Elizabeth Eulberg

Seventeen-year-old Ally is focused on college scholarship applications, spending time with her widowed father, friends, and possible boyfriend, when she learns that everything she knows about herself is a lie.

Past Perfect Life

Sarah Sammis

** spoiler alert **
           Past Perfect Life by Elizabeth Eulberg is about a horrible secret that's revealed after Ally Smith tries to apply to college. The application process is a grueling process, but she doesn't expect to learn that she's not who she thinks she is. Nor does she expect her father to be arrested or a long dead mother to turn out alive and living in Florida.

While there is a long burn for all of these revelations, beyond a short prolog, there's still the last two thirds, the aftermath of this revelation. The second half is the media storm and Ally struggling to gain control of her life. The final third is her brief sojourn to Florida, powerless to do anything else for the six remaining weeks that she's a minor.

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Raven K

yup yup yup. this book was.. phenomenal. The people in this book felt like real people to me, it definitely felt like I was watching a movie (as cliche as that sounds.) I love love loved the main character, and I also liked how the author added a bit of kinda everything. One of the best books I've read so far!

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Raven Walker

An exciting new direction for acclaimed author Elizabeth Eulberg, Past Perfect Life is a tense and tender read about secrets and lies, reality and identity, and the ways we put ourselves back together when everything is broken. Small-town Wisconsin high school senior Allison Smith loves her life the way it is--spending quality time with her widowed father and her tight-knit circle of friends, including best friend Marian and maybe-more-than-friends Neil. Sure she is stressed out about college applications . . . who wouldn't be? In a few short months, everything's going to change, big time. But when Ally files her applications, they send up a red flag . . . because she's not Allison Smith. And Ally's--make that Amanda's--ordinary life is suddenly blown apart. Was everything before a lie? Who will she be after? And what will she do as now comes crashing down around her? Perfect for fans of Far From the Tree, this is the story of one teen's search for herself amid the confusion of a shattered past and a future far from all she planned.

Past Perfect Life

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