From bn.com:
How can you make someone love you when they won’t?
And what if that person happens to be your mother?
Sayre Bellavia grew up knowing she was a mistake: unplanned and unwanted. At five months shy of eighteen, she’s become an expert in loneliness, heartache, and neglect. Her whole life she’s been cursed, used, and left behind. Swallowed a thousand tears and ignored a thousand deliberate cruelties. Sayre’s stuck by her mother through hell, tried to help her, be near her, be important to her even as her mother slipped away into a violent haze of addiction, destroying the only chance Sayre ever had for a real family.
Now her mother is lying in a hospital bed, near death, ravaged by her own destructive behavior. And as Sayre fights her way to her mother’s bedside, she is terrified but determined to get the answer to a question no one should ever have to ask: Did my mother ever really love me? And what will Sayre do if the answer is yes?
This was one of those books that grabbed me from the start and wouldn't let go. My heart ached for Sayre as she went through so much with her mother, what it cost her, and how it made her who she is. I wish I could be more eloquent about Ordinary Beauty, but it was just heartbreakingly beautiful and I'll be thinking about it for days. It comes out June 14, 2011, so you can pre-order it now.
How to Say Goodbye in Robot by Natalie Standiford
From bn.com:
New to town, Beatrice is expecting her new best friend to be one of the girls she meets on the first day. But instead, the alphabet conspires to seat her next to Jonah, aka Ghost Boy, a quiet loner who hasn't made a new friend since third grade. Something about him, though, gets to Bea, and soon they form an unexpected friendship. It's not romance, exactly - but it's definitely love. Still, Bea can't quite dispel Jonah's gloom and doom - and as she finds out his family history, she understands why. Can Bea help Jonah? Or is he destined to vanish?
I'm probably one of the last people to read this book, but I'm so glad I finally got around to it. I think my favorite part is how Bea and Jonah's relationship is "not romance, exactly - but it's definitely love". I love the way they are together. I love the things they do. And I can't imagine it ending any differently.
2 comments:
I read Ordinary Beauty and I agree about what you feel about it :D Laura Wiess is one of the authors I like to read from after reading her previous novels. (Like Ordinary Beauty's cover best though)
These both look incredible. I really want to read How to Say Goodbye in Robot, but I'm one of those that needs a HEA... can you say? LOL.
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