BookRatMisty | BORROWED by Lucia Distefano First Impressions @Thebookrat | Uploaded November 2018 | Updated October 2024, 22 minutes ago.
I've been craving both thrillers AND contemporary reads lately (I know - who even am I?!), so BORROWED by Lucia DiStefano fits the bill! Here are my initial thoughts, as well as a sneak peek of the book — let me know your thoughts, and if this is one you plan on reading!
Drop in on some of the stops on the BORROWED blog tour for more thoughts! The full list of stops can be found in this post: thebookrat.com/2018/11/first-impressions-borrowed-by-lucia.html
Text copyright Lucia DiStefano and Elephant Rock Books, 2018.
about Borrowed by Lucia DiStefano: amzn.to/2RWJY9p
Contemporary/Thriller, 264 pages
Published November 1st 2018 by Elephant Rock Books
Love, mystery, and danger collide in this new literary thriller with the dark heart of a Gillian Flynn novel and the lyrical prose of Jandy Nelson’s I’ll Give You the Sun.
A triumph of authenticity, grace, and nail-biting suspense, Lucia DiStefano’s ingenious debut is an unflinching, genre-bending page-turner.
As seventeen-year-old Linnea celebrates the first anniversary of her heart transplant, she can’t escape the feeling that the wires have been crossed. After a series of unsettling dreams, inked messages mysteriously appear on her body, and she starts to wonder if this new heart belongs to her at all.
In another Austin neighborhood, Maxine braces for a heartbreaking anniversary: her sister Harper’s death. Between raising her brothers and parenting her grief-stricken mother, Max is unable to ignore her guilty crush on Harper’s old flame or shake her lingering suspicion that her sister’s drowning wasn’t really an accident. With Harper as the sole connection, Linnea and Maxine are soon brought together in fantastic and terrifying ways as the shocking truth behind Harper’s death comes to light.
I've been craving both thrillers AND contemporary reads lately (I know - who even am I?!), so BORROWED by Lucia DiStefano fits the bill! Here are my initial thoughts, as well as a sneak peek of the book — let me know your thoughts, and if this is one you plan on reading!
Drop in on some of the stops on the BORROWED blog tour for more thoughts! The full list of stops can be found in this post: thebookrat.com/2018/11/first-impressions-borrowed-by-lucia.html
Text copyright Lucia DiStefano and Elephant Rock Books, 2018.
about Borrowed by Lucia DiStefano: amzn.to/2RWJY9p
Contemporary/Thriller, 264 pages
Published November 1st 2018 by Elephant Rock Books
Love, mystery, and danger collide in this new literary thriller with the dark heart of a Gillian Flynn novel and the lyrical prose of Jandy Nelson’s I’ll Give You the Sun.
A triumph of authenticity, grace, and nail-biting suspense, Lucia DiStefano’s ingenious debut is an unflinching, genre-bending page-turner.
As seventeen-year-old Linnea celebrates the first anniversary of her heart transplant, she can’t escape the feeling that the wires have been crossed. After a series of unsettling dreams, inked messages mysteriously appear on her body, and she starts to wonder if this new heart belongs to her at all.
In another Austin neighborhood, Maxine braces for a heartbreaking anniversary: her sister Harper’s death. Between raising her brothers and parenting her grief-stricken mother, Max is unable to ignore her guilty crush on Harper’s old flame or shake her lingering suspicion that her sister’s drowning wasn’t really an accident. With Harper as the sole connection, Linnea and Maxine are soon brought together in fantastic and terrifying ways as the shocking truth behind Harper’s death comes to light.
