by Caroline Bock
This review also at The Book Babe.Due to copy and paste, formatting has been lost.Let's start with the ending. Does that even count as an ending? I mean, we don't really know what happens! Does Skylar testify, does Jimmy go to jail? So many unanswered questions, and I really wanted to know the answe...
So sad and powerful. Review forthcoming.
I'm not sure what I was expecting when I requested this book for review but whatever I was expecting, I got more. This book follows a group of people in a Long Island town who are affected beaner hopping. We have the kids who are involved in the violence, their girlfriends, the principal at their sc...
I had been waiting to read this book for some time. In fact, I think this book was one of my Waiting on Wednesday picks sometime back in May or June. Every time I went to the bookstore in hopes of acquiring this book, it never quite worked out and I finally just ordered it online sometime back in ...
i'll try to get back to this
I agree with the Goodreads reviewer who stated that this book jumps around way too much. To boot, it isn't a strong story either. It is told from way too many characters viewpoints which means it is more difficult to keep the story straight. A book which had the capabilities to have a strong storyli...
I received this ARC ecopy from Net Galley. Here is my honest review:This book starts off with a quote from The New York Times about "beaner-hopping." This is not something I'd ever heard of before reading this book, and I live in Arizona. It is hardly an act I can wrap my head around, but it just go...
Wow... that was intense!! This is the story about a lie and how one lie can go downhill and destroys people. What I found most remarkable about this story was the way it's been told. First person narration In alternating POV's, and not only the main character we also get the POV of nearly every pers...