I cried. As someone who is frequently teased for never having cried during "The Notebook" or "The Titanic" and rather well-known for my ice-cold heart, this admission carries quite a bit of weight. How to Save a Life is a novel that hasn't gone unnoticed by readers, but I remained skeptical about re...
Wow. One of the best contemporaries I've read in the last few years, I'd stack this against my favorite YA contemporary writers: Melina Marchetta and Courtney Summers. This book took two popular YA issues - death of a loved one and abuse - and managed to keep from being a parade of cliches. That is ...
5 stars!!!Writing a tragic experience, or the aftermath of a tragic experience, into a book's plot is a tricky business for me. It can fall into the dangers of being overly melodramatic, forced and unrealistic. Few books have touched me with the writing alone and fewer have successfully executed the...
I am really glad I finished with the book. I didn't really like the characters (they mostly annoyed me) and the story was quite boring. I had hoped for more improvement as the story went on, but sadly, nope. :(
This is an introspective story about two older teens, Jill still reeling from the unexpected death of her father and Mandy planning to give up her baby in an open adoption. The POV switches between the two characters, and in both cases we get a very detailed and realistic understanding of being in t...
Now, I only read How to Save a Life because I am excited about Zarr's upcoming novel, The Lucy Variations. But as I was reading How to Save a Life, my world was changed in a way I can't explain.There is something about seeing characters pick themselves up and dust off their asses. And that's what J...
Realistic YA isn't my kind of thing, so there's no much I can compare this book with. I just loved this book. From the beginning I knew I wouldn't put it down and I don't care about being predictable. I just love happy endings.I loved the characters, they were so relatable. I ached for them, I cried...
What I thought of when I saw the title: The Fray's How to Save A Life.Reactive Attachment Disorder is an incredibly sad thing because it's the hallmark of neglect, parental and otherwise, sometimes leading to 'excessive familiarity with relative strangers' to fulfil the all-consuming need for love, ...
Zarr's characters in this book are so very real. Mandy's thoughts are so familiar to me- she's so many of the girls with whom I grew up, she's the girl I narrowly escaped being. Jill is more recognizable as a modern YA literature protagonist, and she's well-drawn indeed but she wasn't ever my best f...
FAIL!!!! This was supposed to be a read-along AND my copy had been given to me by my reading buddy Nomes as a present. But this morning I simply swallowed the thing whole, paper, cover, spine and story. I even forgot to mind my Skype appointment with my sister and her daughter. Luckily my sister is ...
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