Sophia… love.
I can’t afford to fall so far, so deep. Not after what happened. I should run, but somehow my heart keeps coming back to him…
Jameson…
I had my own reasons to run. Little did I know the most important piece of my story started and ended with the quiet girl sitting next to me in seventh period.
Sophia Reid’s shy smile brought my soul out of hiding. Through her, I learned what starting over really means.
But if I give in to this love, I’ll put us both in danger.
For a short time, I was whole again, but what they say is right. The old me is dead, and the new one will never know love again.
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This is my first YA book and honestly speaking it’s a good story with a nice plot and has been well written.
I spent the whole day reading it. Since I began to read it I couldn’t stop myself as it’s so interesting and I was so eager to turn the pages to know what is going to happen.
I would like to suggest you guys to definitely give this book a try as I’m sure you’ll enjoy it as much as I did.
This is the first YA I’ve read in quite a long time, and I’m so happy that this book is the one to bring me back to it! NOWHERE GIRL is the first book in a three-book story by Fiona Keane, a wonderful new author on the writing scene.
The main character, Sophia, moves to the Florida Gulf Coast from the Pacific Northwest after a horrible tragedy. One thing I loved about this book was that the author makes the reader feel like we have to get to know Sophia prior to revealing that tragedy. It’s almost as if Sophia doesn’t want to reveal the horrors even to us, the reader, which makes for a can’t-put-down book as we take the journey through the end of the school year with Sophia.
When she meets Jameson, she finds a kindred spirit. He, too, is not your average happy-go-lucky high schooler–he has his issues too. Little by little, his backstory is also revealed through his relationship with “Soph,” and through his own POV. (I was pleasantly surprised with the POV change and loved being in Jameson’s head!).
I especially enjoyed how Ms. Keane portrayed high school through Sophia’s eyes: her troubles (and successes!) in forming friendships, her relationship with her loving (but a bit clueless) aunt, and her assimilation to her new world. Mostly, I loved the amazing development and intensity of the relationship between Jameson and Sophia. Somehow, these two imperfect, struggling souls manage to create a perfect relationship together.
NOWHERE GIRL is a beautiful, slower-paced, intense, character-driven novel that immerses the reader in Sophia and Jameson’s world. It lets us get to know these characters on the characters’ terms, not the reader’s, and by the time the characters open up to each other, the reader is so invested in them that their pain feels like our pain, their love like our love. They become a part of us.
I’m looking forward to reading EVERYWHERE UNRAVELED and SOMEWHERE BOUND next. In fact, I have to– need to– continue this journey in the interesting, meaningful world that Ms. Keane created.
I’m in shock! I never expected this book to end without answering all my questions. I truly don’t know how to shelve the book or rate it because I’m so confused. It kept me drawn in. I can say that. I haven’t gotten to fully see the main characters. So I’m still up in the air about my true feelings for them. I’m not sure I can read book 2 right after that one. But I will probably continue just because I need to know what’s going on.
What an emotional mess! Soph is barely holding it together, and falls for a guy in kind of the same boat. He is also hiding from something, or someone. This is raw, and real. Being a teenager at the end of Senior year is hard enough without all the added stress of emotional turmoil. Panic Attacks are real, and they are nasty! On to Everywhere Unraveled.