Dark Water
by:
Laura McNeal (author)
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781299062160 (1299062164)
Publish date: January 1st 2010
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
Edition language: English
This has been said in many reviews, but I feel I should say it too. This is not a Forbidden romance kind of YA book. It's realistic YA.The book left me emotional drained, which I was not expecting. I knew I'd be sad by the end because of other reviews, but it was much deeper then I thought it was go...
Welcome to Conflicted-Ville (population: one), where this ambivalent resident will attempt to stop flip-flopping between opinions and write a review with a modicum of coherency. This award-winning coming of age novel by Laura McNeal has garnered a bevy of praise and accolades, and much love from rea...
Blown away by beautiful writing & aching storyIn Laura McNeal's DARK WATER, fifteen-year-old Pearl and her mother find themselves living in a rundown cottage on her uncle's avocado ranch after her father leaves. With her mother withering under stress and her cousin Robby hatching vengeful plans agai...
Really pretty writing style, but I thought Amiel was completely exoticized and the romance didn't work. Other relationships in the novel are much more interesting, and I kind of wish the book focused on them and lost the whole "forbidden" romance thing, but then I guess you couldn't have the complet...
I'm excited to read this. I remember the day this fire started-sitting outside my job on my break watching the "snowflakes" of ash coming out of the sky.
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