This is exactly how I like my YA books. If the first one or two YA books I picked up years ago had been like this and The Twin's Daughter by Lauren Baratz-Logsted I'd have been reading the genre long before now.
I was only a few pages in when I came to GR and added Breathless. I didn't add it because it's a "companion novel" but because of Warman's writing in this book.
I didn't want to turn that last page. It's a lovely feeling to want a book to go on. I found myself wishing the book was three times as long as it is. That feeling hasn't been surfacing often in the past few months so I cherished it while reading this.
On and off while reading I couldn't believe how, all at the same time, it was so unrelatable yet so relatable. The actual experiences, some of them, that Emily and her friends go through aren't the average teenagers experiences. Not in the manner they were in this book anyway. Yet the feelings couldn't have been more similiar. I doubt there is a woman anywhere who could read this and not remember the feelings they had when they were a teenager and everything started to change. When they wanted things back they way they used to be, the way they always were, but realized that wasn't going to happen.
Warman did a great, great job here and I'm anxiously looking forward to her next book. She's one of the very few authors who I'll go, right away when it comes out, and buy a book from. Usually I'll wait to get it from a friend, swapping site, used book store, etc. but Warman is one I won't wait on.
I was only a few pages in when I came to GR and added Breathless. I didn't add it because it's a "companion novel" but because of Warman's writing in this book.
I didn't want to turn that last page. It's a lovely feeling to want a book to go on. I found myself wishing the book was three times as long as it is. That feeling hasn't been surfacing often in the past few months so I cherished it while reading this.
On and off while reading I couldn't believe how, all at the same time, it was so unrelatable yet so relatable. The actual experiences, some of them, that Emily and her friends go through aren't the average teenagers experiences. Not in the manner they were in this book anyway. Yet the feelings couldn't have been more similiar. I doubt there is a woman anywhere who could read this and not remember the feelings they had when they were a teenager and everything started to change. When they wanted things back they way they used to be, the way they always were, but realized that wasn't going to happen.
Warman did a great, great job here and I'm anxiously looking forward to her next book. She's one of the very few authors who I'll go, right away when it comes out, and buy a book from. Usually I'll wait to get it from a friend, swapping site, used book store, etc. but Warman is one I won't wait on.
