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This book was a rollercoaster. It follows a girl, Natasha, and her struggle with her own identity. Her whole life, she has pretended to be a 'normal girl' when she is in fact very special. Natasha has premonitions of the future, but no one in her life fully accepts her for this, and she suppresses this dark side of herself until the summer she turns fifteen. Straightaway in the beginning, we get a glimpse that this isn't the kind of story with a happy ending, and there are so many hidden clues that older Natasha discretely gives readers, sometimes addressing us directly, which made this book even more unique. The subtle hints to what is going to happen only left me with more questions and even now at the end, many things remain a mystery. We never even get to find out the name of the town, or what the strange lights in the sky really were, we only know what people saw them as. It's very open ended to interpretation, which I love because everyone can take away a different idea from this book, but it also feels like a life lesson at the same time. I think it also deals with mental issues really well, there is more to the story that what appears. We get to see inside Natasha's mind, and other too, thanks to her psychic abilities, and learn that what seems as a blessing at first, might turn out very differently, and that things are not always as they seem. It deals with grief, regret, loss, and a strange, melancholic nostalgia, but it is hauntingly beautiful. I think it will stay with me for a long time