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Tawni Waters

Autore di Beauty of the Broken

3 opere 62 membri 8 recensioni

Opere di Tawni Waters

Beauty of the Broken (2014) 47 copie
The Long Ride Home (2017) 14 copie
Siren Song (2014) 1 copia

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This novel tells the story of two girls who must navigate their feelings for one another and life in a small, conservative New Mexico town. A lyrical and moving coming- of-age love story.
 
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NCSS | 5 altre recensioni | Jul 23, 2021 |
4.5 stars.

The Long Ride Home by Tawni Waters is a poignant yet surprisingly sometimes humorous young adult novel about a teenager's road trip to scatter her beloved mother's ashes.

Six months after the death of her mom, Harley is still deeply grieving her loss. In the aftermath of her mother's death, she moves from New York to California to live with her mom's best friend, Mercy. Angry, hurting and suffering from anxiety attacks, Harley's only friend (with benefits) is Dean and when she asks him to join her on her cross country trek to spread her mom's ashes, he agrees without hesitation. However, Harley is keeping a big secret from Dean and she is quick to lash out in anger when she feels overwhelmed by the events that have occurred in recent months.

Harley is incredibly prickly and antagonistic but it is impossible not feel empathy for everything she has recently experienced. She uses sarcasm and snark as a defense mechanism when things become too emotional for her. She also shuts down instead of discussing important issues and she is also quick to run away from her problems instead of facing them head on. Her road trip to take her mom's ashes back to New York quickly turns into an emotional journey in which Harley learns some unpleasant truths about her mother's past. However these negative discoveries are offset by the realization that Harley is not as alone as she believes and that there are people in her life whom she can count on. Harley makes several impetuous decisions that are somewhat self-destructive but some of her choices are also unexpectedly healing.

The Long Ride Home is an emotionally compelling, gritty young adult novel. Tawni Waters deftly handles difficult subject matter with sensitivity and she brilliantly balances the more sorrowful moments with humor. With a realistic storyline, a feisty lead protagonist and an endearingly charming hero, this thought-provoking novel is well-written with an unexpected ending. An excellent story that I highly recommended to adult and older teen readers.
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kbranfield | 1 altra recensione | Feb 3, 2020 |
I was excited for this because I love a good roadtrip story, unfortunately, I just didn't connect to the characters in this one.

I wasn't a biggest fan of the narration style. It was written like a letter, which I didn't mind at all, but it felt a little like successive info dumps in the beginning. The information wasn't as naturally integrated as I would have liked. I also don't feel like I got enough background on Harley and Dean to care about their relationship, or their friendship. I didn't find Harley to be a likeable character, I sympathized with her for her loss and guilt, but I never actually liked her. Some other emotional scenes didn't really have an impact on me, because we didn't get to spend enough time in the scene - there wasn't enough buildup to have a satisfying payoff.

I did appreciate the strong emotional ending, and it felt like a great place for our characters to end up. This was a nice read, but I was never invested.

I received a copy of the book from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
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LifeofaLiteraryNerd | 1 altra recensione | Apr 27, 2018 |
Extremely depressing and hopeless. Too many issues in one story with little resolution.
 
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keindi | 5 altre recensioni | Mar 7, 2017 |

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