by Stephanie Kuehn
HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT
Jamie's sister, Cate, was sent to juvie two years ago for burning a barn down. Jamie couldn't help but be relieved when she was sent away. Right before the incident, Cate had started doing a lot of bad things. But she's out now. And she wants to talk to Jamie. Cate has something to tell him. Somethi...
Wow, this book was not what I expected or wanted it to be. I got this bad vibe about Jamie the minute I started to read about him. I don’t know what it was; I just didn’t trust the guy. When he gets word that his sister Cate is getting released, he becomes anxious and intense. Her two years in the d...
A few weeks ago, Ruth Graham lit some fires with her incendiary rant in Slate about how adults should be embarrassed to read YA. She accused YA of escapism, instant gratification, and nostalgia, and claimed YA novels tended to have uniformly satisfying endings. Some do, sure. But the level of YA com...
Initial reaction: Word to the wise: the less you know about this book, the better it'll probably seem to you. The writing was very good, and I'll admit I really liked turns of the book where I followed Jamie through his meandering quest to discover his past and navigating the convoluted hints his si...
*No spoilers.This is going to be one of those annoyingly cryptic reviews, because I don't want to give away the "explosive conclusion." *snortI see what you were trying to do there, book. Unfortunately, no dice. What you were trying to do has been done many times before and way better. The entire ti...
Publication Date: 24th June 2014 from St Martins Griffin. Thank you to the author and publisher for the review copy via netgalley. Two years ago, sixteen-year-old Jamie Henry breathed a sigh of relief when a judge sentenced his older sister to juvenile detention for burning down their neighbor’s...
WTF was that? The blurb makes it perfectly what's to happen. That ominous It's him ending should take away from the reader's need to know. Because in essence we're told their what's what point blank... And yet, that's not how things play out.Him piecing their past together, it's almost boring; but h...
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