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.
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| ISBN: | 0385347340 (ISBN13: 9780385347341) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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This book was dark and twisted, the characters broken and flawed. This is the only book Ive ever read where the POV changes from chapter to chapter where Ive equally loved all three narrators (Patrick, Verna, and Caro). Braffet is excellent at writing anti-heroes. Save Yourself made me feel things, and while I've been fortunate enough to not have personal experience with most of the book's subject material, Braffet made it quite easy for me to identify with each character. Caro's monologues inthis book surprised me, in a good way. i don't know what i thought it was going to be, but i definitely wasn't expecting what i got. and i like that i can still be surprised by books, this far along in my reading career. it's the story of two brothers, patrick and mike, whose father is in jail after he killed a little boy when he was driving drunk. it's the story of mike's live-in girlfriend caro, whose desperate trapped boredom in her housewife-without-the-ring life leads her into patrick's bed
Find all of my reviews at: http://52bookminimum.blogspot.com/3.5 Stars "Families were like oceans. You never knew what was under the surface, in the parts you hadn't seen." The Cusimano family consists of brothers Patrick and Mike (whose greatest claim to fame is having an incarcerated father who was jailed for killing a little boy while driving drunk), and Mikes live-in girlfriend, Caro. The Elshere family is comprised of sisters Layla and Verna and their God Warrior parents. When Layla begins
Prepare yourself for a poetic inferno of a ride.This author has successfully created an inferno here on earth amidst people, characters you know and see everyday, characters whom whilst not quite understanding the real deal trapped in a vicious circle of love, pain, submission and rebellion.Betrayal, murder, revenge, ties that bond with serious consequences, parents failing their kids, parents that want control and order, others that had lost it, young girls, sisters in rebellion whom want to
this book surprised me, in a good way. i don't know what i thought it was going to be, but i definitely wasn't expecting what i got. and i like that i can still be surprised by books, this far along in my reading career. it's the story of two brothers, patrick and mike, whose father is in jail after he killed a little boy when he was driving drunk. it's the story of mike's live-in girlfriend caro, whose desperate trapped boredom in her housewife-without-the-ring life leads her into patrick's bed
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'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 of
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