All These Things I've Done
Sixteen year-old Anya's parents have been murdered because her father was the head of a notorious underworld gang. Now she is determined to keep herself and her siblings away from that world. But her father's relatives aren't so keen to let them go. When Anya's violent ex-boyfriend is poisoned...
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Sixteen year-old Anya's parents have been murdered because her father was the head of a notorious underworld gang. Now she is determined to keep herself and her siblings away from that world. But her father's relatives aren't so keen to let them go. When Anya's violent ex-boyfriend is poisoned with contaminated chocolate - chocolate that is produced illegally by Anya's criminal family - she is arrested for attempted murder. Disconcertingly, it is the new D.A. in town who releases her from jail, but her freedom comes with conditions. The D.A. is the father of Win, a boy at school to whom Anya feels irresistibly drawn. Win's father won't risk having his political ambitions jeopardised by his son seeing a member of a crime family. She is to stay away with him. Anya knows she risks her freedom and the safety of her brother and sister by seeing Win again. Neither the D.A. nor the underworld will allow it. But the feeling between them is so strong that she may be unable to resist him...
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Format: paperback
ASIN: B00B1KWHGS
Publish date: 2012-05-08
Publisher: Square Fish
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English
Richtig, oder Falsch?Gut, oder Böse?Gerecht, oder Ungerecht?Anya Balanchine ist siebzehn und wurde in eine Mafia-Familie hineingeboren. Ihr Vater war sozusagen der „Boss“. Mit diesem Familienzweig möchte sie allerdings nicht wirklich was zu tun haben.Da sie jedoch sehr früh Waise wurde, ihre Großmut...
I liked this well enough and I'll listen to the next book.I enjoyed Anya's stubbornness and paranoia, I liked her devotion to family and duty, I didn't always get her motivation.Who is she talking to, anyway? As a narrator, I mean.I like the original cover (with the sideview of the girl's head; she'...
Late To The Party is my next band name.With that out of the way, I'd seen this book around on GR but it wasn't until I saw the final book in the trilogy in one of the videos ofMisty from the Book Rat that I really got interested (also, it was mostly because of the title. I mean, "In The Age of Love ...
"In 2083, chocolate and caffeine are illegal, water is carefully rationed, books are scarce, and New York City is rife with poverty and crime." That little blurb was found on the back of the ARC of All These Things I've Done by Gabrielle Zevin and that was what initially drew me to this story. Anya ...
Sixteen year-old Anya becomes the head of a mafia family after her parents are both murdered by rival gangs. Although Anya is embrolied in the criminal world, she is determined to keep her brother and sister out of the mafia family, but her father's relatives aren't so keen to let them go. When Anya...