As they start talking, they discover that they not only share interests but also live on the same street in Brooklyn.

Devorah and Jaxon meet when they get stuck in a hospital elevator together. Though their relation is strictly forbidden, Devorah and Jax arrange secret meetings and risk everything to be together. Like No Other is a great YA contemporary romance. When a hurricane strikes the Northeast, the pair becomes stranded in an elevator together, where fate leaves them no choice but to make an otherwise risky connection. Thoughtful, diverse, smart, bittersweet, unsettling, uplifting, and undeniably special, Una LaMarche’s Like No Other encapsulates in a single volume the powerful potential that literature holds to test our preconceptions and redefine our relationship with the world around us. They've spent their entire lives in Brooklyn, on opposite sides of the same street. Living on opposite sides of their Brooklyn neighborhood, strict Hasidic Devorah and fun-loving nerd Jaxon forge an unexpected connection when they become trapped in an elevator during a hurricane, after which they pursue a secret romance. Jaxon is a fun-loving, book-smart nerd who has never been comfortable around girls (unless you count his four younger sisters).

Will life tear them apart?ĭevorah is a consummate good girl who has never challenged the ways of her strict Hasidic upbringing. Hmmm, where have we seen this before It’s Shakespeare. 'One of the most poignant and star-crossed love stories since The Fault in Our Stars.'. In Una LaMarche’s new Young Adult romance, Like No Other, we are carried into a story we’ve heard before: the chance meeting of two young people who shouldn’t have ever met or known one another, but who can’t let their feelings go and in the process change their lives forever.

“One of the most poignant and star-crossed love stories since The Fault in Our Stars.” - Entertainment Weeklyįitting seamlessly alongside current bestsellers like Rainbow Rowell’s Eleanor & Park, and John Green's Paper Towns, LIKE NO OTHER provides a thoroughly modern take on romance that will inspire laughter, tears, and the belief that love can happen when you least expect it.įate brought them together. Like No Other by Una LaMarche available in Hardcover on, also read synopsis and reviews.

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