On My Wishlist is a weekly event highlighting a book that I really want to read. The book may be 20 years old, or the pub date may not be until next year, but either way I'm excited about it, and hopefully you will be too!
Blink & Caution by Tim Wynne-Jones
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Hardcover
345 pages
345 pages
Synopsis from Goodreads
Two street kids get tangled in a
plot over their heads—and risk an unexpected connection—in this heart-pounding
thriller by Tim Wynne-Jones.
Boy, did Blink get off on the wrong
floor. All he wanted was to steal some breakfast for his empty belly, but
instead he stumbled upon a fake kidnapping and a cell phone dropped by an
"abducted" CEO, giving Blink a link to his perfect blonde daughter.
Now Blink is on the run, but it’s OK as long as he’s smart enough to stay in
the game and keep Captain Panic locked in his hold. Enter a girl named Caution.
As in "Caution: Toxic." As in "Caution: Watch Your Step."
She’s also on the run, from a skeezy drug-dealer boyfriend and from a nightmare
in her past that won’t let her go. When she spies Blink at the train station,
Caution can see he’s an easy mark. But there’s something about this naïve,
skinny street punk, whom she only wanted to rob, that tugs at her heart, a
heart she thought deserved not to feel. Charged with suspense and intrigue,
this taut novel trails two deeply compelling characters as they forge a
blackmail scheme that is foolhardy at best, disastrous at worst—along with a
fated, tender partnership that will offer them each a rare chance for
redemption.
So, what do you think? Is it one that you'd like to add to your wish list? Have you already read it?
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