Shining Bright

“Maybe it's like free-falling. You feel like you'd rather do anything than face it, but once you do it you realize it's the best feeling you've ever had.”  Mindi Scott, Freefall It seems like all the books that I have read lately include death. In Freefall , Seth McCoy is dealing with his friend Isaac's death which he blames himself for. Seth was the last person to see Isaac alive, and the first to see him dead. In the trailer park where he lives, Seth has been drowning his sorrows in alcohol and refusing to think about Isaac's death, which seems to have plagued no one else. One evening he finds himself at a house party in the richest part of town. There, as he was slipping through the cracks, he meets a beautiful and very different girl named Rosetta. She seems to be perfect, but she has secrets of her own and Seth soon learns that he isn't the only one that needs saving. Seth is a high school student who is seriously slipping, and the fall began b...

"I am crazy sad, and somewhere deep inside, all I want is to fly." - Jandy Nelson, The Sky is Everywhere "That's a misconception, Lennie. The sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet." Jandy Nelson, The Sky is Everywhere The Sky is Everywhere   is the story of a girl, recently sisterless, and forever trying to find her place is the world. Lennie Walker, 17, has just lost her out-going, dynamite sister, whose shadow she has always lived in. Now, left with her grandmother and crazy uncle, she is launched into a life where she can step out of the shadows and into the limelight. Her family and best friend support her, but she wants more. This is when her previously nonexistent love life changes completely. At this time, when she is supposed to be grieving, she finds herself torn and lusting after her sister's seductive ex-boyfriend Toby Shaw, and gorgeous, charismatic musician Joe Fontaine. This love triangle creates so much tension the sky itself may be ri...