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Cory Wolfe
Author
Make Believe
Cory Wolfe, author
Jennifer Hall, a mental health counselor, arrives in a desert town after the death of the third student at Lincoln High. The third tragedy. The third memorial service. The third suicide. No Note, no answers. Jennifer counsels the students and community through their grief and with every passing day in Lincoln, her own pain slowly begins to creep back in. The kind of pain where you can't forgive oneself. With an alcoholic father and self-absorbed mother, Tyler Tuckerman prefers the world he sees through his camera lens. Drifting through life unnoticed in solace, clutching to a memory of his first love and his warm blue eyes he captured many summers ago. Desperately trying to feel alive again, to be loved again. Will Tyler ever feel seen and understood? Can Jennifer truly help these underprivileged students, their destructive parents, and bring closure by answering the only question - why are the students at Lincoln High dying by suicide?
Reviews
Elite Choice Review

Make Believe by Cory Wolfe is a dark and intriguing story about recurring student suicides at Lincoln High. After the third student at Lincoln High commits suicide, the school decides to bring in a new mental health counselor named Jennifer Hall. She is given the responsibility of counseling the students and preventing further suicides. Her most difficult case is a complex, gay, and neglected student named Tyler Tuckerman who is still grieving his deceased first love. Wolfe’s narrative progresses quickly, giving readers a look into the lives and minds of both Jennifer Hall and Tyler Tuckerman. As the perspectives change from chapter to chapter, the contrast between Jennifer and Tyler’s characters is striking and makes the book more fascinating. The novel excellently discusses multiple heavy topics including suicide, bullying, mental health disorders, the LGBTQ community, grief, and loss, and will truly play on your heartstrings. Readers will devour this captivating story in one sitting and be blown away by the twist at the end of the book.

Kirkus Review

A focused, impressively nuanced tale about teenagers, drugs, lies, and the terror of hidden enemies.

SPR

A string of tragic student suicides throws a small town into emotional turmoil, and forces a counselor to face her own darkness in Make Believe by Cory Wolfe. Touching on painfully relevant subjects of depression, teen suicide, drug abuse, social alienation and collective grief, this is a blunt story that doesn't shy away from uncomfortable themes. The multiple narrative voices make the story more complete, bridging the perspective gap between adults and children, broadening the narrative arc, as well as the book's potential readership. Regardless of your age or personal experience with trauma, this hard-hitting novel is an unpredictable, heart-wrenching, and timely read.

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