by Lurlene McDaniel
Short review:This book was stunning, gorgeous and heartbreaking. However, it was also confusing and at times I felt like the characters were mixing together in one blur. Based on the blurb I expected this to be about the bomb in total. However, I soon found out (after confusion) that the first half ...
Short review:This book was stunning, gorgeous and heartbreaking. However, it was also confusing and at times I felt like the characters were mixing together in one blur. Based on the blurb I expected this to be about the bomb in total. However, I soon found out (after confusion) that the first half ...
I actually finished reading this book a couple of days ago and I liked it. It was very emotional and touched a subject that is very close to reality. It was sad to think about because as a mother we send our kids off to school thinking they will be safe there. Red Heart Tattoo touches a little bit o...
With an eye widening prologue that winds up your emotions, Red Heart Tattoo's powerful beginning sets the ideal mood for the whole book. Told in five perspectives, we experience the before and after of a school bombing that leaves grief at every corner, and loss at every rubble. With five perspectiv...
When I first read the blurb for this book, I knew that I was going to read it. Whether I was in the mood for something as serious as a school bombing or not, I knew that I was going to read this book. When I finally picked this book up to read, I couldn't put it down. I didn't want to put it down be...
Lurlene McDaniel books always find a way to my heart and my eyes are never dry. What I loved about this book is the moving plot. So intense from the very first page, the reader is captured. There has been many real devastating events like this to see as if I were the characters it amazing. The suffe...
More like a 3.5 After everything these characters had to go through I really wanted a nice complete book and not have to worry about what will become of them.
Thank you Netgalley for this ARC. This was an interesting story about young long, loss and learning to move on after a senseless tragedy. There was a definite Columbine feel to this and anyone who remembers where they were when that story broke will no doubt appreciate the similarities."At 7:45 a....
Red Heart Tattoo is a new addition to Lurlene McDaniel's masterpieces. I've always loved her writing style, and the way that she has an eye for grief and hard issues. She addresses them head-on and with characters that I can't help but care about. This book is no different. At first it is a bit co...
This is the first book I’ve read by Larlene McDaniel, I was given a copy to review through NetGallery and find myself now trying to write a review. Larlene has written many novels as far as I can tell, she writes about love, loss, death, illness, and trauma that young people face today face.The sto...
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