Holy wow double rainbows 🌈 🌈 unicorns 🦄 in the ☁️ sky! This booook I was so intensely caught up in the story I didn’t realize it was the end! Y’all! That is when you know the book is amaze balls!!!!! Swooooon I am still reeling! It was perfect, pure and heart wrenching! I love how developed and mature the characters were! I love that they don’t play games. They are honest and it is soooo refreshing!
I did not see that twist coming and I am glad she saw Crawford's true colors. ONE DAY IS BAD ENOUGH but he waited a whole 3 days to see her. That is why I like when a person is comfortable in their own skin and loves themselves and thennnnn they find a person who compliments them. I wouldn't say complete because that doesn't do it justice either. Someone who pushes you and brings out the best. That is who she found in Slate.
some of my FAV quotes
“Life tosses you things you’re not expecting. This won’t be the first big hurdle in your life. What you have to learn is that you’re strong enough to live anyway.
“If I ever let a woman buy my coffee, my mother would fly here on her broom and beat me over the head with it.” The image made me laugh. “We won’t tell her.” Seriously made me LOL
What if he was that guy and didn’t know it? What if we had both been lost until now?
The first guy other than Crawford who I’d developed feelings for saw me as a sister. Until tonight and this moment, I hadn’t been able to admit I had feelings for Slate. I hadn’t been ready for all this to hit me at once.
Life had dealt me some difficult cards, but I was going to find my own path now. I didn’t need a guy to complete me. I never did. I just never had the opportunity to find that out. Until now.
That boy’s got the biggest one I’ve ever seen. When he loves, he loves big. He doesn’t let you down and he stands by you no matter what. I know it because he loves me. Don’t let his past mistakes and possibly his future mistakes let you miss out on being loved by a heart that damn big.”
Sometimes life throws changes our way that make us stronger and show us we don’t always know what is best.
I knew just listening to him that Vale McKinley was special. The kind of special that changed a person. That made a mark in life.
I knew he had a reputation, but he was also a human. Someone’s nephew. He had a soul.
“I will leave that Jeep right there and walk the entire way back with you if you don’t. I’m not letting you out of my sight.”
“Actually, there’s a side of Slate no one sees because he doesn’t show them. Or they don’t look closely. You went out with him because of his reputation. Maybe you should have tried to see beyond what you thought you knew about him.”
“Crawford will regret this one day,” Slate said as he turned his body toward me. “He had you. He’d lived a perfect life with you and he didn’t even know what he had because he hadn’t tried anything else. Me . . . well, I’ve tried it all. I’m not wondering what’s on the other side. I’ve been there, and it is lonely. He’ll realize it one day, and it’ll be too late.”
my pulse raced with Slate. He made the world brighter and full of the unknown.
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As She Fades Review
From Lala’s Book ReviewsHonestly, this might be my favorite book by Abbi. This book tore me a part in every way possible. It’s told in two parts, and I was crying the entire time while I was reading the second part after I pieced together what happened. I’ll talk about the second part later in this review after the playlist, so I hopefully won’t spoil anyone who doesn’t want to be spoiled.Vale is the typical good girl in high school with a good balance of her academic and social life. She has the perfect boyfriend, a loving family, and a bright future; until her world is suddenly turned upside down when she and her boyfriend, Crawford, is hit by a truck on the night of their graduation. Each day that his is in a coma is a day that Vale loses sense of the world until she spends all of her time in the waiting room in the hospital awaiting her time to sit in Crawford’s room to read to him hoping that he’ll wake up. Her life revolves around her time at the hospital, and it’s getting close to the time for her to leave for college. Her family is worried that she might take of the fall semester to stay by Crawford.During her time in the waiting room, she meets Slate as he is going to visit his uncle who’s battling cancer. Slate is a straight-forward guy who doesn’t sugar coat anything (and he sleeps around, but at least he’s honest about it).Slate slowly brings life back to Vale and despite his constant banter and pestering, and Vale finds herself wanting to spend time with him.Skip ahead to move in day at college, and Vale finds herself in a place where she can start over, yet she doesn’t wait to move on and live because there’s still the chance that Crawford could wake up. Vale slowly starts to make some new friends (and a few enemies because she’s Slate’s only female friend). She is getting used to college life, and she has a job on the weekends to make some money, and as time goes on, she decides that it’s time for to move forward and acts on her feelings towards Slate.As She Fades is a heart-stoppingly beautiful book that will put in perspective of how fragile life is and why we shouldn’t take loved ones for granite. This book will make you cry, laugh, and call you loved ones to tell them you love them.There’s also a playlist of songs on my blog!
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R Smyth
Excellent - With Twists you Will Never See Coming!!!!!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 21, 2020
Trixy Tracy
Of course I highly recommend!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 28, 2019