After finding his younger brother teetering on the edge of his balcony, fifteen-year-old David Case realizes the fragility of life and senses impending doom. Without looking back, he changes his name to Justin and assumes a new identity, new clothing and new friends, and dares to fall in love with the seductive Agnes Day. With his imaginary dog Boy in tow, Justin struggles to fit into his new role and above all, to survive in a world where tragedy is around every corner. He's got to be prepared, just in case.
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Like Rosoff's first book (How I Live Now) Just In Case is ostensibly a book for older teens, but it would be a great pity if this was the only audience to discover it. Reading Just In Case made me a little nostalgic for my younger self - not for those hideous teenage years in themselves that I'm happy to have put behind me by a few decades, but to a time when the ingredients of what was to become the adult "me" were still being mixed, and the ideas in a book had the ability to shape my thinking by dint of their very newness. Just In Case is the sort of book that in the right hands at the right time could do this, offering an ironic metaphysical and philosophical meditation on life's big topics - love and sex, faith and free will, illusion and reality, packaged into a short and genuinely sweet coming-of-age story. Full Review (members only, 687 words).
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Balancing ruminations on the connections between everything are the solid friendships...readers will want to ponder the provocative questions that wrap around their own hopes and terrors.
Publishers Weekly
Intriguing...geared to mature readers with a philosophical bent and an appreciation of irony, the novel shows....the gifts fate has to offer: namely, survival, love and friendship.
KLIATT - Claire Rosser
Exceptional book, recommended for senior high schoolstudents, advanced students, and adults.
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