Pretending to Be Erica
Books | Young Adult Fiction / Girls & Women
3.6
Michelle Painchaud
We Were Liars meets Heist Society in a riveting debut!Seventeen-year-old Violet’s entire life has revolved around one thing: becoming Erica Silverman, an heiress kidnapped at age five and never seen again. Violet’s father, the best con man in Las Vegas, has a plan, chilling in its very specific precision. Violet shares a blood type with Erica; soon, thanks to surgery and blackmail, she has the same face, body, and DNA. She knows every detail of the Silvermans’ lives, as well as the PTSD she will have to fake around them. And then, when the time is right, she “reappears”—Erica Silverman, brought home by some kind of miracle. But she is also Violet, and she has a job: Stay long enough to steal the Silverman Painting, an Old Master legendary in the Vegas crime world. Walking a razor’s edge, calculating every decision, not sure sometimes who she is or what she is doing it for, Violet is an unforgettable heroine, and Pretending to be Erica is a killer debut.
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Author
Michelle Painchaud
Pages
272
Publisher
Penguin
Published Date
2015-07-21
ISBN
1101618108 9781101618103
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"After the first few pages, I wasn’t sure how much I was going to like it. But I became invested in the story almost immediately.<br/>Will Violet be found out? Will she go through with the con? Will she instead stay with Silvermans forever, and build a new life? You’ll just have to read it and find out!"