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Reader reviewed by Duncan Stuart

Robert Cormier is one of the great YA writers, and this is his very best book. It tells of a boy who has the power to disappear - but instead of being a great trick, the ability to fade becomes a burden - especially when the boy sees things that he doesn't want to see.

As with many Cormier books, there are layers of story here, and two-thirds way through we realise the story we are reading is a manuscript being read by somebody else. By doing this, Robert Cormier involves us still more deeply in the disturbing psychology that accompanies the ability to Fade.

I think it is seriously brilliant - a book that was even better when I read it a second time.