"What I felt first was not fear but a thrill. It was a little exciting - a sudden sparkle amid the ordinary, the shimmer of the unexpected thing."..."Our days had grown by 56 minutes in the night. At the beginning, people stood on street corners and shouted about the end of the world...but of course, there was nowhere on earth to go..." Julia and her family wake on a seemingly normal Saturday morning in California to discover, along with the rest of the world, that the rotation of the earth has suddenly begun to slow. "The slowing - or its effects - alters the brain chemistry of certain people, disturbing most notably the fragile balance between impulse and control."
This book was wrapped as a "Bind Date with a Book", a very clever idea. The wrapping said "Coming of Age", "Haunting", "Thought-provoking", and "Environmental Changes". The Blind Date was most successful. The read was most rewarding. Similar to Life As We Knew It, it does not have the cataclysmic consequences and stark terror reactions found in many of the end of the world stories.
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