Series: N/A
Date Read: October 4, 2014
Source: Free review copy from Netgalley
Publication Date: October 7, 2014
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Genres: Young adult, contemporary
Summary (taken from
Goodreads): The Kinsey sisters live
in an unconventional world. Their parents are former flower-children who
still don’t believe in rules. Their small, Northern California town is
filled with free spirits and damaged souls seeking refuge from the real
world. Without the anchor of authority, the three girls are adrift and
have only each other to rely on.
Rachel is wild. Asha is lost.
Sarah, the good sister, is the glue that holds them together. But the
forces of a mysterious fate have taken Sarah’s life in a sudden and
puzzling accident, sending her already fractured family into a tailspin
of grief and confusion. Asha has questions. Rachel has secrets. And
Sarah, waking up in the afterlife, must piece together how she got
there.
Review
This was emotional from the start. It was so easy to care about the characters, because they were unique and incredibly real. The feelings, the guilt, the hindsight - it was all there and written perfectly.
Although Sarah was "the good sister," she wasn't my favorite. I'm not sure if this is a personal thing - probably, it will vary depending on the reader of the book - but I felt so much more connected to Asha's character than the others. She was the clueless one, fitting in with the readers since neither of her sisters went into detail about what happened until late in the book. She was confused and wanted answers, until the answers became too much to bear. (Sin helped her, too. I adored him and he only came up in her point of view, so there was that.)
Something that really struck me was that, as their family fell apart, each of the sisters blamed themselves. That's how things usually are, really. When it comes down to it, we are more likley to look back on the things we could've done differently. We get more critical of ourselves than we do others. I feel like this was shown wonderfully and I really enjoyed seeing so much of the cause and effect throughout the story. In the end, it's not just one action that could have changed a situation, but the combined actions of many.
Overall, I just really loved this. If every book were so real, so heartfelt and emotional, I don't think I could ever complain.
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