Books by Katie Williams and Complete Book Reviews
Katie Williams, Chronicle, $16.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-8118-7175-4
A loner, 16-year-old Evie seeks companionship where she can find it, whether it's with the group of girls who tolerate her company at lunch or with her crush, Jonah, a college dropout whose job entails clearing dead animals from the woods by a...
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Katie Williams. Chronicle, $16.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-8118-7150-1
Paige Wheeler died five months ago at her high school, and her ghost has been stuck there ever since. She hangs out with two other ghosts: Brooke, who died of a cocaine overdose in the girls’ bathroom a few months before Paige died, and Evan, who...
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Katie Williams. Riverhead, $27 (304p) ISBN 978-0-593-54376-4
Williams (Tell the Machine Goodnight) delivers a clever speculative story of cloning and crime. Lou is told by a government-sponsored “replication commission” that she’s been cloned from a victim of serial killer Edward Early. With no memories of...
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Katie Williams. Riverhead, $25 (304p) ISBN 978-0-525-53312-2
Williams’s debut, a savvy take on technology’s potential and its moral failings, imagines a near future in which lives are altered by a happiness machine. The year is 2026, and Pearl is a technician for Apricity, where she’s assigned to analyze and...
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