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Isabella Anders has always been the girl that never fit in. Most days she feels invisible, especially when she’s around her older sister, Hannah, who catches the eye of everyone, including Kai and Kyler, the boys who live next door.
Isabella has had a crush on Kyler for years, but knows he’ll never see her as anything more than Hannah’s little sister, unless she finds a way to standout.
When Isabella gets an offer from her grandmother to travel overseas for the summer, she seizes the opportunity, hoping she’ll discover more about herself. And she does, but not in the way that she expected.
Three months later, Isabella returns home an entirely new person. The change is enough to catch both Kyler and Kai’s attention. But Isabella is still struggling with what she discovered over the summer and until she deals with the truth, she’ll never truly be herself.
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Isabelle Anders knows she doesn’t fit in. When she takes a European vacation with her grandmother and cousin, she finds out things about herself that she can never forget. And when she returns, she has to figure out what to do about the secrets that she’s unlocked.
So Isabelle’s family is awful. I mean the worst. You can probably guess the “secret” pretty early on and maybe you are supposed to because her family SUCKS. Mom, Dad, Sister- all of them are ASSHOLES. And it’s especially sad because the way Jessica Sorensen writes, you feel it in your bones. So you feel the pain that is inflicted on this character and for me, I even started to feel like maybe Isabelle’s story isn’t all fiction. That more often than we would like to believe, a kid is treated like crap because of mistakes that had nothing to do with them.
Somehow in the seriousness of this all- there are some REALLY funny and light moments in this book which make it really attractive for me. I like when authors can really achieve that balance of heavy and light in their writing. A good manifestation of this comes in the form of Isabelle’s relationships with Kai, her grandmother and her cousin. There are these really fun and light moments that are woven into the sadder pieces and it all just works to create a story I did not want to put down.
I am so interested to see how this ends. This does end on a cliffhanger of sorts. It’s not a huge WTF moment but it’s definitely a to be continued.
I can’t wait. But hopefully not for too long!
I definitely recommend you pick this one up. It’s a good one- as if we expected anything less from this amazing author!
Cold rain instantly soaks through my clothes as I skip down the driveway, moving awkwardly, because I can’t bend one knee. I don’t care though. Rain is awesome. And it smells so great. Seriously, if I could, I’d skip around in the rain all the time.
My hair is drenched by the time I reach the sidewalk, and the flip-flops splash water from the puddles all over the backs of my legs. It reminds me of this one time Kai and I walked home in the rain and we intentionally splashed in all the puddles.
“Isa! What are you doing?!” Someone shouts with a hint of laughter in their voice.
My head whips to the side as I stumble to a stop.
Kai is standing out on the side deck, beneath the shelter of the roof, and I think he might be laughing at me, but the veil of rain crashing from the cloudy sky makes it difficult to see.
“Going to the paint store!” I shout then wave at him and start to skip off again.
“Are you crazy?” he calls out. “You can’t walk to town in the middle of a rainstorm.”
I sigh and slow down again. “I’m not walking! I’m skipping!” My eyelashes flutter against the rain.
“Can’t you wait until it at least stops raining?” he asks, shaking his head as I jump into a puddle.
“No way! It’s either the rain or being in the house with Hannah. And I choose the rain. Besides, rain is awesome!”
I can hear him laughing all the way from over here.
“Would you get your ass over here?” He waves at me to come to him. “I’ll drive you if you really want to go. But it’s too damn cold for you to be playing around in the rain, no matter how cute you look.”
Cute? Did he just call me cute?
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Jessica Sorensen is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author from the snowy mountains of Wyoming. When she’s not writing, she spends her time reading and hanging out with her family.
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