Beckie Stevenson's Standalone novels
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Monday, 10 August 2015
Monday, 26 January 2015
Existing By Beckie Stevenson
Roisin Williams is desperate to be the girl that blends into the background. She doesn’t really speak and she doesn’t want to be spoken to. This is the only way she knows how to protect the secret she’s kept hidden for her whole life.
Lance Williams knows that his daughter doesn’t behave like a normal seventeen year old girl and he’s worried. He decides a fresh start, away from their house that’s full of old, painful memories is a good idea. A new home, in a new city where no one knows her can only be a good thing for Roisin, right?
Wrong. Cannon Beach is home to Cabe Evans. He’s smart, polite, kind and ridiculously attractive, but he doesn’t date - ever. At school, he’s popular, outgoing and has all the girls falling at his feet, all of them except the new girl, Roisin, who seems to do everything she possibly can to avoid him.
When Cabe’s intrigue gets the better of him he tries to figure out why Roisin wants to hide from everyone, but soon finds himself caught up in a tangled web of deceit, torment and anger.
Can Cabe rescue Roisin before it’s too late, or will her secret be the death of her?
Lance Williams knows that his daughter doesn’t behave like a normal seventeen year old girl and he’s worried. He decides a fresh start, away from their house that’s full of old, painful memories is a good idea. A new home, in a new city where no one knows her can only be a good thing for Roisin, right?
Wrong. Cannon Beach is home to Cabe Evans. He’s smart, polite, kind and ridiculously attractive, but he doesn’t date - ever. At school, he’s popular, outgoing and has all the girls falling at his feet, all of them except the new girl, Roisin, who seems to do everything she possibly can to avoid him.
When Cabe’s intrigue gets the better of him he tries to figure out why Roisin wants to hide from everyone, but soon finds himself caught up in a tangled web of deceit, torment and anger.
Can Cabe rescue Roisin before it’s too late, or will her secret be the death of her?
I took a massive chance on this book. The blurb didn't grab my attention, or the story line. I felt like i had read the story before.
Boy was I wrong!!!!!
The story is so much more then boy meets girl, boy saves girl...... bla bla bla.
Rose aka Roisin, moves to a new city. She lives with her dad, step momster and little sister who she adores.
Her little sister is beyond cute and Rose literally raises her. She has her whole life while her dad works all hours he can and avoids taking any serious notice at home.
When they move to Cannon Beach, Rose sees it as a fresh start. Having being labelled the freak at her old school she wants to try and be normal. Not that I think she isn't. It works, she meets her friend Ashley, and then Cabe.
Only, having friends has bought on what she always feared. That people will notice the battered, abused girl.
I won't get into the whole mess with her step mom as it will ruin the story plot. Although I guessed pretty much before it was revealed, I still felt like I was say on the edge of my seat reading it be revealed.
I felt deeply sorry for Rose.
She's such a loving character and adores her sister with everything she has.
I like the fact that the author added in the ghost. When I first read that it had one, I was a little unsure, but now having read it, the book wouldn't have been the same had that part not been there.
5*
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