Blog tour is being hosted by Rockstar Book Tours.
Disclaimer: I received a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
*TRIGGER WARNINGS* RAPE, MURDER, SEXUAL ASSAULT, PHYSICAL ASSAULT, MISCARRIAGE
Title: HOW SHE DIED, HOW I LIVED
Author: Mary Crockett
Pub. Date: November 13, 2018
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young
Readers
Formats: Hardcover, Paperback, eBook,
audiobook
Pages: 416
Summary: I was one of five. The five girls
Kyle texted that day. The girls it could have been. Only Jamie--beautiful,
saintly Jamie--was kind enough to respond. And it got her killed.
On the eve of Kyle's sentencing a year after Jamie's death, all the other "chosen ones" are coping in various ways. But our tenacious narrator is full of anger, stuck somewhere between the horrifying past and the unknown future as she tries to piece together why she gets to live, while Jamie is dead.
Now she finds herself drawn to Charlie, Jamie's boyfriend--knowing all the while that their relationship will always be haunted by what-ifs and why-nots. Is hope possible in the face of such violence? Is forgiveness? How do you go on living when you know it could have been you instead?
Review: We go on a journey with our name-less narrator as she tries to cope and deal and learn how to live knowing that she could have been the one killed. The guy Kyle, who killed Jamie was known as an ousider, a weirdo a loner, but yet he went around bragging that he was going to do something attention grabbing and everyone would know his name.
Our main character is trying to find a way to let go of the hate that she has towards Kyle and move on with her life. She has been living in fear and looking over her shoulder. She starts dating Jamie's boyfriend Charlie who now has violent tendencies after the rape and murder of his dead girlfriend.
This was a very quick read and I rate it a 4 star. I feel that in some places it was written for high schoolers and then the subject matter would turn darker.
Mary Crockett
A native of the Shenandoah Valley of
Virginia, Mary grew up as the youngest of six children in a family of misfits.
She has worked as everything from a history museum director to a toilet seat
hand model.
In her other life, she's an
award-winning poet and teaches creative writing at Roanoke College in Virginia.
If you tweet at her, chances are she
will tweet back.
Giveaway Details:
3 Winners
will receive a finished copy of HOW SHE DIED,
HOW I LIVED, US Only.
Tour Schedule:
Week One:
11/12/2018- Here's
to Happy Endings- Review
11/13/2018- A Dream Within A Dream- Review
11/14/2018- Novel
Novice- Excerpt
11/15/2018- Bri's Book Nook- Review
11/16/2018- Pretty
Deadly Reviews- Review
Week Two:
11/19/2018- The Desert Bibliophile- Review
11/20/2018- Lifestyle of Me- Review
11/21/2018- Moonlight
Rendezvous- Review
11/22/2018- Savings
in Seconds- Review
11/23/2018- Cindy's
Love of Books- Review
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