Stay

This was one of those books that I picked up off the shelf randomly. Sometimes it is a fun and great adventure doing that and sometimes it can be such a let down. SO are you wondering which this book was? Sitting on the edge of your seat awaiting my verdict!!!

Well, the story was amazing, the characters so well developed that I actually cared about what happened and that everything would turn out as it should. BUT it reached the swear word quota early on in the book. I was so sad about that but after ready a few chapters and hit that quota I was already way too involved in the book and the characters. I just couldn't set it down. So that makes it hard for me to scream "THIS WAS A GREAT BOOK READ IT" since there were too much foul language. I mean, really do people in real life talk like that? How sad.

Before you start to think that every other word on the page was foul, it wasn't.

So the story: Clara is now graduated from high school and running away with her dad to a beach. No one knows where she is going or for how long. That is how the story starts. With Each chapter we learn more about Clara and her father in their present situation and then the next chapter will have a flash back to the "beautiful" relationship she is literally running away from. On top of that Clara's dad is keeping a HUGE secret from her that changes things she knows and believes about her mother that passed away years before. It is a touching story about forgiveness, friendship, love and moving forward.

It is a gripping story, so well written and full of all the great things that make great books....well except the swearing. I am not sure if I would put this among the other teenager books. However, I think more and more teenagers are finding themselves in abusive relationships and perhaps this is a topic that they should be aware of more fully....you know without the swearing.

Quote: "But you are naive. The mostly good in your life has made you that. You've spend so much time seeing the bright side that you don't even believe the other side exists. You are wrong about that."

GRADE: A- (if you don't mind the swearing)

D+(if you do mind the swearing)