Gasp: Visions, Book 3

Readers will learn a bit about Lake Michigan and the surrounding area's geography. The protagonists (some in college, some in high school) spend more time cutting class than going to school in this fast-moving adventure, but they also put the skills they've learned in class to work as they try to avert the next disaster.

Whether they're dealing with raging hormones or first-love angst or heading off the next disaster, teen protagonists Jules and Sawyer show courage (for example, Sawyer is forced to face his lifelong terror of drowning) and good sense (most of the clothing stays on in some intense make-out scenes, and they choose not to have sex). Jules and her siblings bicker constantly and have evading authority down to a science (their sister Rowan is the most skilled at pretending to be their mom when calling the school to claim they're sick), but they, along with love interests Sawyer and Ben, always have one another's back, and they all have strong moral compasses that won't let them shrug off impending peril to strangers.

None of the characters is sexually active, though there are intense romances, gay and straight, in progress, with plenty of kissing. Jules and Sawyer have a couple of steamy make-out scenes but manage to stay clothed. Jules says, "I don't know for sure what's happening at first, but even though I'm not an anatomy expert, I think I have an idea." In this and related areas, they show good common sense and concern for their future. Jules talks about her brain overruling her body and about having a girl-crush on Sawyer's hip, tattooed older cousin Kate, who's taken him in after he flees his abusive father. There's some bawdy but not explicit humor about the guys' "packages" and "junk."

The Jose Cuervo billboard where Jules first saw visions makes a brief appearance. Occasional mentions of products during scene-setting: Clue Junior, Sea-Doo, Burger King, OnStar.