![]() ![]() Spider’s number is up in three weeks, and Jem doesn’t want anything to do with him. The lure of cash for some drug runs is too much of an enticement for him. ![]() Spider is really tall, smelly, and full of energy and has fallen in with the wrong crowd. This haunts her as she goes from foster home to foster home, living in poverty in London, lost and with no motivation to make her life better.Īt the age of fifteen, she befriends Spider, a fellow classmate who lives with his grandmother. When her mom dies when she is six years old, she realizes these eight numbers give the date of death. When she looks a person directly in the eye, she sees eight numbers. Jem has a rather extraordinary power in an ordinary world. Anything I wanted, I had nothing left to lose. Why I read: It was offered for review and I wanted to read about a character named Spider.įavorite Quote: And then, a strangely comforting thought trickled through me – I had nothing, so I could do anything now. Wheel, Jem notices that all the other tourists in line flash the same number. But while they’re waiting to ride the Eye Ferris Until she meets Spider, another outsider, and takes a chance. That number is a date: the date they will die.īurdened with such an awful awareness, Jem avoids relationships. Whenever Jem meets someone new, no matter who, as soon as she looks into their eyes, a number pops into her head. ![]()
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