💬 Which genre do you read most often? Is there a genre you’d like to read more often? . Thank you to @amazonpublishing & @tlcbooktours for gifting me this copy of Only the Pretty Lies by @rebekahcrane42! This is a YA coming-of-age story that looks pretty adorable on the outside, but I have a feeling it will address some pretty heavy topics and will really challenge us to think about ourselves and the way we act on a regular basis. I’m so here for it! . . . s u m m a r y ⇣ A young love story about breaking painful legacies by the author of The Upside of Falling Down. Convention doesn’t carry much weight in Alder Creek. It doesn’t in Amoris Westmore’s family either. Daughter of a massage therapist and a pothead artist, inheritor of her grandmother’s vinyl collection, and blissfully entering her senior year in high school, Amoris never wants to leave her progressive hometown. Why should she? Everything changes when Jamison Rush moves in next door. Jamison was Amoris’s first crush, and their last goodbye still stings. But Jamison stirs more than bittersweet memories. One of the few Black students in Alder Creek, Jamison sees Amoris’s idyllic town through different eyes. He encourages Amoris to look a little closer, too. When Jamison discovers a racist mural at Alder Creek High, Amoris’s worldview is turned upside down. Now Amoris must decide where she stands and whom she stands by, threatening her love for the boy who stole her heart years ago. Maybe Alder Creek isn’t the town Amoris thinks it is. She’s certainly no longer the girl she used to be. . . . h a s h t a g s ⇣ #OnlythePrettyLies #Skyscape #booknerd #RebekahCrane #YA #romance #tlcbooktours #shelfie #shelfdecor #rainbowshelves #bookshelves #bookstack #bookstagrammer #bookster #booknerdigans #bookcommunity #darlingdaily #mybookfeatures #designyourspace #styleithappy #igreads #thebookstagram #themagicofbookstagram #yabookstagrammer #yareads (at Connecticut) https://www.instagram.com/p/CObi__CHNad/?igshid=1eung7e7vl52s
