by Vikki Wakefield
Vivienne used to say that sometimes the best you can do is to try not to be one of the bastards. I can not stop crying! I finished this hours ago and I still, every time I let myself stop and the thoughts creep in, I can not stop the crying. Friday Brown is emotionally lost. Her mother is gone a...
Growing up is made up of a million small moments in time, and one of the most painful is the moment you’re severed from the whole, when you realise that your parent is complicated and fallible and human.This is a book of unfinished chapters. Friday Brown's life is composed of unfinished chapters. Wh...
friday brown has: half formed goals. unanswered questions. odd choices. odder people... of pseudofamilies. it’s the last that’s not limited to that of her choosing as there’s the one that she comes from, too. the story begins with her having lost something, as well as of her losing touch with who s...
I’ve heard so many amazing reviews about Friday Brown from Jack at The Book Stop and Ruby at Feed Me Books Now, but I started reading it tentatively, because I didn’t want to get my hopes up. That wasn’t a problem because I really enjoyed it. A big thanks to Stephanie Speight at Text Publishing for ...
Silence :(
Rating: 4.25/4.5 StarsI always find it extraordinarily difficult to read books that receive a great amount of hype. For one, they not only raise my expectations, but when they come about for books whose authors I've never read before, I am placed in a situation where I expect to read a 5 Star novel ...
4.5 starsWhat makes a person who they are? Is it some magical combination of experiences, memories and family? What happens when those things are stripped away, are proven false or leave you behind? Who are you then? And do you actually have any say in the matter?Friday Brown has spent her entire ...
”On the night of my eleventh birthday, Vivienne told me that I was cursed. It was her gift, she said. When she was gone the Brown women’s curse would pass to me and, if I ever knew which way death would come, I could run hard in the other direction.”Seventeen-year-old Friday Brown is a runner. Her w...
Reynje went with Florence, Emily went with Katniss, I'm going with Amy.