Brief Description – a group of teenagers growing up amd dealing with adult issues.
I had the honour of reading this as an Advanced Reader Copy [ARC). You know how sometimes a story fills you with warmth and you utter the words – This book…ah, this book at the end and for a long time afterwards? The Mess of Us is this book.
I fell in love with the wonderful characters beautifully written by Chantelle Atkins.
Lou is pregnant and eighteen. She tells her story to her unborn baby. Her boyfriend is Joe, and along with his two brothers, and her friend Marianne, the story evolves around them.
It’s menacing in parts, and it deals with social issues of life in the city and on a housing estate. The angst of teenagers growing up and the problems they encounter was challenging. As a result storyline kept me hooked from start to finish.
To be able to tell a characters mood just by the way they sit, takes skill. A quirk of an eyebrow, a grimace, or silence tells us so much about a person. That’s what kept my attention throughout. It was so sad and poignant in parts making me fill with the emotion of these characters who like real people.
I absolutely recommend this story. It’s truly wonderful
Blurb
“Dear World, so, obviously we made a mess of it. Inevitably. Otherwise I wouldn’t be writing to you again, would I?”
What do you do when the man who beat your boyfriend into a coma is about to be released from prison? What do you do when that man is your boyfriend’s older brother who wants to make amends?
Now a couple, Lou and Joe are struggling to get over the traumatic events of two years ago. When Joe’s brother Leon is released from prison, they must decide if either of them are able to forgive and forget what he did.
Meanwhile, an unexpected pregnancy throws their lives into chaos and when tragedy reawakens Lou’s self-destructive tendencies, she faces losing everything they have built. Can she fight her body image demons once again? Can either of them trust Leon? As Joe and Lou try to decide whether bad people can truly change, they are about to have one mess of a summer. The Mess Of Us https://amzn.eu/d/exNWRSP #preorder #comingsoon #YAfiction #ya #fiction
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