Maybe it's just unfortunate that I've recently been reading other books that hit harder and dig deeper, but while this still told a meaningful story and opened my eyes a bit to the realities of teenage homelessness, the book was just OK for me.The protagonist, Joy, is mostly your average suburban te...
This is a powerful book where the main character Joy goes on a desperate journey to figure out who she is without an overbearing boyfriend and her hovering parents. To learn to breathe on her own. Literally. She has severe asthma which her parents micromanage. When she first met Asher, it felt dange...
This is a book about heavy duty topics for a YA - mostly revolving around mental relationship abuse, runaway & homeless kids, but also touches drugs, prostitution, the struggle to survive, trying to make room for yourself in your own world, growing, standing on your own feet, finding love, hope, fri...
This got off to a rough start, as we need the background of how and why Joy fakes her kidnapping from her middle-class Issaquah home and goes to live on the streets on Capitol Hill as Triste. What's rough is that her privileged and manipulative boyfriend Asher—the guy she's escaping—is just too evil...
“I thought you were gone forever,” I said between kisses, not caring that people around us were staring and smiling. Not-too-heavy read and interesting enough which made me keep reading it. A very straightforward approach in introducing us to the reality of the teenagers' life on the streets. Full ...
THIS BOOK SHOULD COME WITH A WARNING!"There comes a point when a runaway decides it's safer to live on the streets than to live at home."Sometimes life takes a wrong turn that we question fate for what it is and what it's doing. Even the person we grown comfortably with could cause physical and emot...
Joy lebt zwar in einer liebevollen Familie, reißt aber dennoch aus, um auf der Strasse zu leben, um ihrem tyrannischen Freund Asher zu entkommen, der droht, ihren Vater zu entlassen, wenn sie ihn verlässt. So täuscht sie ihre eigene Entführung vor und flieht zu dem einzigen Menschen, von dem sie sic...
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