by Katie McGarry
Book: Stand Alone
Publisher: Tor Teen
Pub Date: January 14, 2020
Genre: Young Adult
Format: eARC
Source: Publisher
Echoes Between Us is bestselling author Katie McGarry’s breakout teen contemporary novel about a girl with everything to lose and the boy who will do anything to save her.
Veronica sees ghosts. More specifically, her mother's ghost. The afterimages of blinding migraines caused by the brain tumor that keeps her on the fringes and consumes her whole life haunt her, even as she wonders if it's something more...
Golden boy Sawyer is handsome and popular, a state champion swimmer, but his adrenaline addiction draws him to Veronica.
A girl with nothing to live for and a boy with everything to lose--can they conquer their demons together?
My Review: Veronica and Sawyer may be my favorite pair by Katie yet.
Veronica is weird. She has a small circle of friends, dresses funny, keeps to herself and thus everyone in school thinks she’s weird and a number of other things. In reality? Veronica is dealing with a medical problem that no one knows about and she wants to keep it that way. She is nothing like what people think. She is smart, funny, kind and the kind of friend you would love to have.
Then you get Sawyer, the popular guy according to everyone. He’s got a good future ahead of him in swim, he’s good looking, has a lot of people always following him. He’s not like that though, he doesn’t see himself as this super popular guy that everyone wants to be around and date. He’s got a secret addiction and is raising his sister and being what he feels like is a parent to his mom.
When an English project comes up, Veronica needs a partner and who volunteers but Sawyer. For fun? As a joke? Who knows. But when these two start talking and get to learn about each other, they find that they are not what their reputation states and become friends.
But after a short time together, they being to like each other more than just friends. And what was supposed to be something casual turns into a love they never thought they would have. Watching them care for each other and sticking through all that came along, it will pull at you.
I loved this book, just as I have loved every book Katie has ever written. Katie has a knack for creating these characters that you can’t help but fall in love with.
My Rating:
✪✪✪✪✪
