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School Library Journal
Reviewed on November 1, 2016 | Young Adult
Gr 9 Up—Lorna Ryder is a Devonairre Girl, identifiable by her long hair and the keys she wears around her neck. It's 2008, and she and her mother live in Brooklyn, on Devonairre Street, which has supposedly been cursed ever since World War II, when none of the street's men returned home. Women living on Devonairre are warned from childhood that loving a man or boy will doom him to an early death, and this seems to have come true for Lorna's mother as well as for the other Devonairre women who lost husban...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on January 1, 2017
In Haydu's alternate 2008, 9/11 never happened, but a deadly Bombing in Times Square did. Throughout Brooklyn, the Bombing deaths of men from Devonairre Street are considered validation of a rumored Curse: any boy loved by a Devonairre Street Girl will die. The current generation of Devonairre Street Girls, narrator Lorna and her friends Delilah, Isla, and Charlotte, alternately revel in their spooky reputation and resent the street's restrictive rules and traditions. The...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
