Review: A wonderful debut!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 25, 2012
Lucy Carter is fifteen years old when tragedy strikes her family. Her older sister Kate is killed in a car accident and Lucy's world is completely shattered. Her mother struggles with the most basic existence and her father can't hold the remainder of the family together, so the decision is made to send Lucy to the Edmond School for Performing Arts, boarding school. As much as her parents hope it will be just what Lucy needs, she is left feeling alone and unwanted.Then one night Lucy hears music coming through one of the vents in the common room. She is drawn to it and sets out to find where it is coming from and who it is playing it. Her search leads her to Chris. Instantly attracted and drawn to each other, they both fill the voids in the others lives and help bring each others creativity to the surface.I loved Lucy. You could feel her pain at not just losing her sister, but also her parents and the family dynamic. She acted with the exact emotions and feelings that you would expect of someone her age. Her relationship with Chris is intense to say the least. Her emotional conflict and struggles to find the strength for the decisions that she needed to make were heartfelt. And what a wonderful friend she finds in Isa. I loved her quirkiness and her ability to tell it like it is.At no point did I know what was going to happen next in the story. With each turn of the page something completely unexpected was revealed to me. The author writes with such fluidity that it is with the utmost ease to be captured by and swept away in the story. A wonderful debut which I'm hoping the author will write a sequel to in the near future.4.5/5 Stars!!Review first posted at YA Book Addict... [...]I received this book from the author for an honest review.