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Nick is cursed with a voice in his head that narrates what is going to happen, and if he deviates from the script, he suffers excruciatingly. Then he meets Taryn, whose family turns out to have much more to do with Nick's curse than he could have foreseen. While Nick's narrative voice is compelling and clear, the plot is less so.