Review: Even Angels Fall by F.L. Darbyshire

Summary-

After suffering an unthinkable loss, Abbey Miller and her family move to Leeds to rebuild their lives and start again, but the pain and grief that Abbey carries with her is impossible to escape. As she finds herself becoming increasingly isolated from her family, she develops a firm friendship with Lucy, Nathan and Liam, who introduce her to a brand new and exciting world, far removed from all of her problems. But will her new friends bring her the light hearted relief she has longed for? Or will she find herself getting drawn deep into their dangerous and intoxicating world?

Review-

Even Angels Fall is a heart-wrenching novel that highlights the tragedies of depression, drug abuse and alcohol abuse. The protagonist, Abbey, has lost her twin brother to suicide and feels that her family has shut her out. She turns to new schoolmates to help her deal with her grief over her brother's death and her mother's downward spiral into drinking and talking to the ghost of Abbey's twin. Unfortunately, Abbey's new friends are heavy into the party scene and are constantly popping pills and snorting cocaine. The story was a heavy and heart-breaking read. Watching the characters, all young, joyous, and full of life, as they headed down such an obvious path of destruction, was poignant. As the tragedies unfolded because of one bad decision after another, the mother in me wanted to yell at them, ground them, take their phones and privileges away. However, it was also an enlightening read as well, illustrating the differences between a mother's pain and a child's pain. Well-written, great plot and thoughtful insights into the mind's of drug addicts, this was a thought-provoking and interesting novel. And the ending........

Publisher- Grosvenor House Publishing Limited

Reviewers Rating: 4 Stars

Reviewed by~Cindi

Thank you to the author for the donation of this book to the Read for your Future book program in exchange for a honest review!!!

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I have been collecting breast cancer awareness things all year. I am going to give a grab bag of things away. So you never know what you might get :) Open internationally!

Banned Books Week Hop

It's Monday! What Are YOU Reading?

This is a fun meme that allows bloggers to get an idea of what everyone else is reading and perhaps help to find our next must-read. So check out what WE are reading and tell us what YOU are reading!!

Lora is Reading: 

The Boy Most Likely To

by Huntley Fitzpatrick

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Surprises abound and sparks ignite in the highly anticipated, utterly romantic companion to My Life Next Door 

 Tim Mason was The Boy Most Likely To: 

- find the liquor cabinet blindfolded 

- need a liver transplant 

- drive his car into a house 

 Alice Garrett was The Girl Most Likely To: 

- well, not date her little brother’s baggage-burdened best friend, for starters. 

For Tim, it wouldn’t be smart to fall for Alice. For Alice, nothing could be scarier than falling for Tim. But Tim has never been known for making the smart choice, and Alice is starting to wonder if the “smart” choice is always the right one. When these two crash into each other, they crash hard. 

 Then the unexpected consequences of Tim’s wild days come back to shock him. He finds himself in a situation that isn’t all it appears to be, that he never could have predicted . . . but maybe should have. 

 And Alice is caught in the middle. 

 Told in Tim’s and Alice’s distinctive, disarming, entirely compelling voices, this return to the world of My Life Next Door is a story about failing first, trying again, and having to decide whether to risk it all once more.

(goodreads summary)

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Cindi is Reading:

The Sixteen

by Ali B.

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There are people out there who don't die with their bodies. Their souls live on in the bodies of others. Some good, some bad-they are soul jumpers. Nothing in Iris Brave's world make sense anymore. Her father, Micah, is still alive-his soul survives in the body of a teenage boy. It is up to Iris and a group of soul jumpers called the Sixteen to save Micah. To do so Iris must take on the unscrupulous leaders of the Council. Can she save her father? Will she survive?

(goodreads summary)

Teaser Tuesday

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! 

Just do the following: 

• Grab your current read. 
• Open to a random page. 
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page. 
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! 
• Share the title and author so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers! 

Lucy wasn't an eight-year-old girl. She was an old woman living inside her granddaughter's body.

p. 2

The Sixteen

by Ali B.

It's Monday! What Are YOU Reading??

This is a fun meme that allows bloggers to get an idea of what everyone else is reading and perhaps help to find our next must-read. So check out what WE are reading and tell us what YOU are reading!!

Lora is Reading: 

The Boy Most Likely To

by Huntley Fitzpatrick

......

Surprises abound and sparks ignite in the highly anticipated, utterly romantic companion to My Life Next Door 

 Tim Mason was The Boy Most Likely To: 

- find the liquor cabinet blindfolded 

- need a liver transplant 

- drive his car into a house 

 Alice Garrett was The Girl Most Likely To: 

- well, not date her little brother’s baggage-burdened best friend, for starters. 

For Tim, it wouldn’t be smart to fall for Alice. For Alice, nothing could be scarier than falling for Tim. But Tim has never been known for making the smart choice, and Alice is starting to wonder if the “smart” choice is always the right one. When these two crash into each other, they crash hard. 

 Then the unexpected consequences of Tim’s wild days come back to shock him. He finds himself in a situation that isn’t all it appears to be, that he never could have predicted . . . but maybe should have. 

 And Alice is caught in the middle. 

 Told in Tim’s and Alice’s distinctive, disarming, entirely compelling voices, this return to the world of My Life Next Door is a story about failing first, trying again, and having to decide whether to risk it all once more.

(goodreads summary)

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Cindi is Reading:

The Sixteen

by Ali B.

......

There are people out there who don't die with their bodies. Their souls live on in the bodies of others. Some good, some bad-they are soul jumpers. Nothing in Iris Brave's world make sense anymore. Her father, Micah, is still alive-his soul survives in the body of a teenage boy. It is up to Iris and a group of soul jumpers called the Sixteen to save Micah. To do so Iris must take on the unscrupulous leaders of the Council. Can she save her father? Will she survive?

(goodreads summary)

Waiting on Wednesday

Sooooo....what book are we waiting on here at RFYF? 

October and Halloween and scary movies are right around the corner. The stores are stocking up on Candy Corn and Fall decorations. And we are getting EXCITED about Halloween now too! So it's a creepy, scary story that we're waiting on.....Mwah ah ah!!!

The boy meets girl massacre (annotated)
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by Ainslie Hogarth
Release Date: 8 September 2015
Publisher: Flux

Noelle takes a summer nightshift job at the infamous Boy Meets Girl Inn, even though she's well aware of the grisly murders that happened there decades ago. That's why she has a diary—to write down everything she experiences in case things go bump in the night. But the inexplicable freezing drafts, the migrating rotten-flesh smell, and the misplaced personal items don't really scare her. Noelle has bigger problems: her father's ailing health, her friend Alfred's inappropriate crush, and the sore spot on the back of her head that keeps getting worse. 

 When a party commemorating the anniversary of the original killings ends in a ghoulish bloodbath, Noelle's diary becomes the key piece of evidence for investigators. But the cryptic and often incoherent entries suggest there is more to the bizarre case than can be rationally explained...

(goodreads summary)

Teaser Tuesday

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! 

Just do the following: 

• Grab your current read. 
• Open to a random page. 
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page. 
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! 
• Share the title and author so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers! 

He must've felt me coming because at the instant I stretched my talons out toward him, he disappeared. That damn trick of popping in and out of time and space...Bree had never had the time to teach it to me...I swerved in a circle, every nerve in my body on fire. 

p. 172

The Blue Woods

by Nicole Maggi

Happy Labor Day!

It's Monday! What Are YOU Reading?

This is a fun meme that allows bloggers to get an idea of what everyone else is reading and perhaps help to find our next must-read. So check out what WE are reading and tell us what YOU are reading!!

Lora is Reading: 

What You Left Behind

by Jessica Verdi

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It’s all Ryden’s fault. If he hadn’t gotten Meg pregnant, she would have never stopped her chemo treatments and would still be alive. Instead, he’s failing fatherhood one dirty diaper at a time. And it’s not like he’s had time to grieve while struggling to care for their infant daughter, start his senior year, and earn the soccer scholarship he needs to go to college.

The one person who makes Ryden feel like his old self is Joni. She’s fun and energetic—and doesn’t know he has a baby. But the more time they spend together, the harder it becomes to keep his two worlds separate. Finding one of Meg’s journals only stirs up old emotions, and Ryden’s convinced Meg left other notebooks for him to find, some message to help his new life make sense. But how is he going to have a future if he can’t let go of the past?

(goodreads summary)

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Cindi is Reading:

The Blue Woods

by Nicole Maggi
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The Night Battles ascend in THE BLUE WOODS, the exhilarating conclusion to the Twin Willows Trilogy 

Sixteen-year-old Alessia Jacobs wants to go to college someday like her friends. She wishes for a chance at a normal relationship with Jonah. But normal is never an option for a Benandante like Alessia, who has sworn to protect the magic in the world from the Malandanti . . . especially when Jonah is on the opposite side of the deadly struggle. When the war comes to a head, lives will be lost, love will be gained, and Alessia will risk everything to save the people she loves and destroy the Malandanti once and for all.

(goodreads summary)