Streamline
by:
Jennifer Lane (author)
Seems like Leo Scott has it all: looks, brains, and athletic talent. He’s captain of his high school swim team with a bright future in college and beyond. But Leo has secrets. His mother’s crippling car accident has devastated his family and left Leo to deal with his father’s abuse, battered and...
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Seems like Leo Scott has it all: looks, brains, and athletic talent. He’s captain of his high school swim team with a bright future in college and beyond. But Leo has secrets. His mother’s crippling car accident has devastated his family and left Leo to deal with his father’s abuse, battered and alone.Leo’s girlfriend Audrey Rose is poised for her own share of success. As one of Florida’s top high school swimmers, Audrey dreams of college swimming stardom. But there’s an obstacle to her glorious rise to the top. Her number-one supporter—her father—is in prison for murder.Part murder mystery, part tale of young love in a military family, this gripping story takes readers on a journey from Pensacola to Annapolis. Leo and Audrey must band together to rise above the adversity they encounter and find their true selves in the process. When everything’s on the line . . . streamline.
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Format: kindle
ASIN: B007ON737Y
Publish date: March 24th 2012
Publisher: Omnific Publishing
Pages no: 460
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Love,
Book Club,
Realistic Fiction,
Romance,
Drama,
Contemporary,
Sociology,
Psychology,
Sports And Games,
Sports,
Abuse
What a roller coaster! Sometimes it seemed like the book would never end and sometimes it seemed too much but having finally completed reading it I appreciate that there was such resolution to the entire story. All the pieces finally fit together and I even shed a tear which hasn't happened in awhil...
This book was one disappointment after another. I’m not talking about the writing or the story, I’m talking about the situations that happen in this book, Streamline. Just when I thought that something else couldn’t possibly go wrong, a turn of the page brought on another horrible incident.The mai...
Though Streamline is a book with multiple narrators, at its core, this story is Leo’s. Leo is one of those characters that tugged on my heartstrings – grabbing a hold of my sympathies to the point where I just wanted to give the poor kid a hug. A victim of both his father’s physical and emotional ab...
Wow! I actually finished this several days ago but I needed to let it sit before reviewing.This book is heartfelt and heart wrenching. It's a powerful piece of writing, filled with the complex and diverse characters I have come to expect from Jennifer Lane. At times, I honestly felt like shouting an...