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| ISBN: | 0385347340 (ISBN13: 9780385347341) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Kelly Braffet
Hardcover | Pages: 320 pages Rating: 3.37 | 4660 Users | 496 Reviews
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| Title | : | Save Yourself |
| Author | : | Kelly Braffet |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 320 pages |
| Published | : | August 6th 2013 by Crown |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Thriller. Mystery. Dark. Suspense. Mystery Thriller. Contemporary |
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Save Yourself has the narrative flair of Gillian Flynn and Adam Ross, the scruffy appeal of Donald Ray Pollock, and the addictiveness of Breaking Bad. Patrick Cusimano is in a bad way. His father is in jail, he works the midnight shift at a grubby convenience store, and his brother's girlfriend, Caro, has taken their friendship to an uncomfortable new level. On top of all that, he can't quite shake the attentions of Layla Elshere, a goth teenager who befriends Patrick for reasons he doesn't understand and doesn't fully trust. The temptations these two women offer are pushing him to his breaking point. Meanwhile, Layla's little sister, Verna, is suffering through her first year of high school. She's become a prime target for her cruel classmates, not just because of her strange name and her fundamentalist parents: Layla's bad-girl rep proves to be too huge a shadow for Verna, so she falls in with her sister's circle of outcasts and misfits whose world is far darker than she ever imagined. Kelly Braffet's characters, indelibly portrayed and richly varied, are all on their own twisted paths to finding peace. The result is a novel of unnerving power-darkly compelling, addictively written, and shockingly honest.Rating Of Books Save Yourself
Ratings: 3.37 From 4660 Users | 496 ReviewsWrite-Up Of Books Save Yourself
Patrick and Mike's dad ran down a young boy. Drunk driving. They are now on their own and live with their own demons.Mike was strong and good-looking and he made her feel safe, but that wasn't the kind of thing he thought about. Patrick might have understood, but Caro thought Patrick had grown acclimated to misery, and even as he knew the beer cooler was poison he wouldn't have been able to get rid of it.This book was so personal for me. My dad spent 26 years in prison. I know that feeling ofI haven't read any book recently that I can recall that has as many seriously messed up people as this one does. Patrick, Layla, Mike, Caro, and Verna all live in the small town of Ratchetsburg, PA. Their lives intersect because of another even worse pscyho. Enough about that. Save Yourself begins with recounting the circumstances of Patrick's life. The son of a murderer. His father killed a boy while driving drunk. The town won't let Patrick forget that he and his brother Mike, need to pay for
There must be something in the water that Stephen King's family is drinking.King is currently in a bit of a second renaissance, producing some of the best work of his career. Then there's his son, Joe Hill, who with Horns and NOS4A2 has rocketed onto my authors to watch list and earned the same distinction has his famous father of "I will read everything he writes." Add to the list of talented authors in the King family tree, his daughter-in-law Kelly Braffet. Her latest novel Save Yourself
Once upon a time in a faraway land I denied being the "thriller-reading type" but then I started reading the really dark and twisty stuff; the kind where everyone wriggles and squirms and NO ONE gets to be the good guy. Sold! Kelly Braffet's wonderful new book is about as dark and twisty as it gets. Eight attractive teenagers with shitty lives scramble to fend for themselves in a miserable world where grownups turn their backs just when their protection is needed most. At the story's core are
The publish date on this book is a while off, but I picked this book up and couldn't put it down. I was really impressed by it. I've been in a bit of an "actual book" reading slump for awhile. I've been tearing through audiobooks like crazy, but when it comes to an actual book in hand, nothing has held my interest in quite awhile. The little blurb about this book said it was like Gillian Flynn and Donald Ray Pollock, and I happen to enjoy the darkness of both of those writers so I was really
4 STARSWho made Gods washing machine?Who made the pointy things that stuck in Gods feet? Lets draw comparisons as a jump off point for this one. This book was like that movie Love Actually without the Wet Wet Wet Christmas and with every character living out their own personal versions of hell, taking a trajectory without any conceivable escape. I think I was expecting something along the lines of R-rated Courtney Summers or Hannah Harrington but ended up feeling like I read an exploded,
Patrick and Mike Cusimano were finding that life after their alcoholic father had been sentenced to prison for the hit-and-run death of a child was much worse than they had imagined it would be if they had even thought about it. But the misguided guilt that Patrick felt was made worse by the nineteen hour gap between finding the damaged and bloodied car in their garage and going to the police. The blame directed toward Mike and him was such that their lives were made very uncomfortable to say
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