Review: Highly Recommend this book!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 2, 2014
I was given this book to read in exchange for my honest review.This was the first book I have read by Amanda and now I am on the search for more! Amanda wrote the POV of Paisley in a way that I felt she was sitting right in front of me speaking directly to me. I have never felt what way before and it was very refreshing and different than the way books usually make me feel. I have always judged a good book by it being written to where I would see it play out like a movie. But this book drew me in so differently, like I was there.Now that I have said how the book made me feel, maybe it is time I tell you a little bit about the story and the characters!Paisley is a 17 year old girl growing up in a trailer park, with a drug addicted Mother, her good for nothing boyfriend and a 2 year old little sister. Paisley has pretty much raised herself and is now raising her little sister. He Mother is always so high on heroine that she doesn’t even think about her girls. Paisley is just starting her senior year of high school and planning on how she will get a job and take her little sister BeeBee and give her a better life. Paisley’s Mother never even buys food for the girls, the only time there is food in the house is when Paisley gets a hold of her Mother’s money before she spends it on drugs. There is a lady that lives next door to them that takes care of BeeBee while Paisley is in school. Paisley also has a best friend Carly that lives in the trailer park. She spends a lot of time at her house and pitches in with Carly’s Dad and has dinner with them every night. Paisley has been told by her Mother that she comes from money, but she has never met her family. Her Mother say’s they do not care about them, and that is fine with her.The story starts off with a regular daily morning routine, Paisley wakes up gets her little sister ready feed her some cereal and takes her to Ms. Summers for the day. She then heads over to Carly’s and they go onto school.It is two weeks into the school year and all she wants is to finish high school and start a new life, just her and BeeBee. Carly gives her a ride to and from school every day. On this particular day when they stop in front of her house she has a horrible feeling and asks Carly to come in with her. When they enter the house the first thing she sees is her Mother laying on the couch. She has her arm tied off with a rubber tube and a needle and spoon on the floor next to her… she is dead. Paisley just stares at her she knew this would happen one day. Now her mind is wondering off…. All she thinks is that she has to drop out of school, get a job and take care of BeeBee. She does not want to drop out of school but thinks she can always go back and get her GED. She comes back to reality when the paramedics arrive and try to resuscitate her Mother. Carly is so afraid of being separated from her little sister, when an older woman walks up to her and she asks her if she is from child services. And before the woman can speak she is begging and pleading with her to not put them in foster care. That is when she explains that she is her maternal Grandmother. And that the girls will be coming to live with her. Paisley protests this decision stating she can take care of herself and her little sister.Paisley’s life is now forever changed……I do not want to give away the rest of the story, I hope what I have told you will make you want to get the book and see how Paisleys life changes and all that she learns about her parents and how she came to be where she is today.I highly recommend this book is it a very well written story that you can’t help but fall in love with the characters. And just to let you know…. There is a second book to this story! I can hardly wait for it release! I myself love to read books that are in a series, you get to know more of what happens to those that you have come to know.Reviewed by Char