Blink & Caution

Wynne-Jones, T. (2011). Blink & Caution. Somerville, MA: Candlewick. This book starts off fast, and the pace really never lets up. Two teens living by their wits and by sheer determination in the seedier environs of Toronto find their paths eventually crossing in the most unlikely ways. Both of them are carrying stories that are sure to tug at the reader's heartstrings. Blink has devised a unique way of keeping himself fed. He dons the attire befitting a prep school boy, and enters the town's hotels where he eats from the room service leftovers in the halls. Caution herself is a girl on the run from her past, and her present circumstances guarantee that her future will be pretty dismal as well. Blink inadvertently stumbles into a fake kidnapping, and decides that he could insure his financial future with a little blackmailing. Having no one but each other to trust, the two embark on a journey that takes them to even darker places than they have been before, but it also offers a glimmer of hope. The writing in this one is memorable as are the plot's intricate twists and turns.