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, but whatever it was didn't compare. This book is breathtaking. It is simply lovely. It is heart-warming, heart-breaking, and tear-jerking. Anyone over the age of 16 would find the story and characters compelling to read. This is one of those books that stays with you forever as you wonder in the back of your mind the how's, what's, when's, and what's going on now with them? thoughts. Drop everything and read this book.
may be a difficult book to read. In the same respect, the author puts the characters into situations that could teach those who haven't been subjected to violence ways to defend themselves if they are ever put into such situations.
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are two books that together tell the story of two people who have to grow up quickly, but find they can do it better together. The key word of this story is "angst." There's a whole lot of it to go around, but thankfully it's not annoying to the point that you want to shake the characters. All of the angst and emotion is drawn from situations out of their control, all a part of the story that leads the two main characters to be worthy of one another.
, but it wouldn't be a romance if he didn't warm your heart shortly into the plot. As a hero, he's rough, tough, and a true bad boy juxtaposed against the innocent heroine. But that all makes for a good coming-of-age story where she rescues him from his tragic life and in turn she leaves behind her innocence. The follow-up book, Walking Disaster, will be released in 2013.
in this list not because it is a college-age, young adult-centric story (which it is not), but because the author doesn't find it necessary to be graphic in her descriptions of the few romance scenes. Nor is this book a romance, but the underlying theme of the book is one of love and love lost. I reviewed this book on Goodreads where I said it is "a definite must-read if you like your heart ripped out, stomped on, and left for a bloody death," and for that reason, I think all newly initiated (and seasoned) adults could learn a few things from the disaster of the character's stories.
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