#pick 2

arthur: correctly?

When Thelma reads this she will probably have to sit down and take deep breath because…

This is a contemporary novel!

To be precise this is an adult contemporary novel dealing with a young man suffering from epilepsy that suddenly he is father or a teen-ager and since the kid’s mum just tragically died he has to suddenly grow up –a thing he really is not ready to do- and take responsibility for this child’s life.

He is a musician, his life is anything but structured or typical…this does not look easy.

I grabbed this book in my local library one summer, completely on a whim and devoured it. I was so incredibly surprised about how much I enjoyed it, and to this day it’s one of the few contemporary I can call a favorite that is not a thriller-mystery or adventure novel. It was a little summer miracle.

If you asked me today what caught my eye about it I would have no idea...perhaps the cover.

(This is the italian cover of the edition I read)

Yet what it’s amazing is that once I read the synopsis I did not put it down and never looked back. I took it, read it and never regretted it.

It’s been a while since I read it but so sadly I don’t have a perfectly clear picture of  it yet I’ll try to describe what I loved so much.

Usually I’m a fan of those father that are very reliable, strong and kind they offer support and acceptance to their kids. Evan is so not that! He is a mess, as I said, a sort of Peter Pan. His epilepsy –which he fights with medical use of marijuana too- influences every aspect of his life (and by the way, personally I think the depiction of the illness was great, showed how big it was but never Evan was reduced to his condition) and his career is really not the most stable. YET! He shows his son, Dean, little by little, that even as weird and imperfect and unconventional as they are they can be a family, Evan will do his best and hopefully Dean will help him along the way and show him how to better be a family with him.

This is really it, just the fact that this is the story of how a guy in his thirties gets a teen ager son and is along figuring out how to be a Dad. A Dad to a teen age boy. Wow, am I right?

I honestly completely and totally loved it.

Not much else to add considering this is a contemporary…anything else would be a spoiler, literally!

I just…hope anyone that picks it up can enjoy it too!

Here is the Goodreads’ synopsis.

IMPORTANT LINKS

My Goodreads

Thelma’s Goodreads

Rules

Announcement

This post is a lie. I’m so not ready for this book…BECAUSE THIS IS THE LAST IN THE SERIESSSSSS!!

Give me the booze.

The Others is a Urban Fantasy Alternate History series with shapeshifters as the main paranormal element.

Of course it’s not this simple and already by half book1 we have people that can see the future and elemental powers being unleashed. It’s gorgeous and terrifying and one of my favorite series of all time.

Book 5, Etched in Bone will be released on March 7th 2017... 

...(just as The Song Rising, my pick #3 for this top, which is the reason why March 7th has been officially declared The Best Day of the Year by Me. It is law. It’s also a freaking problem because WHICH ONE DO I READ FIRST?! HOW DO YOU EXPECT ME TO KNOW I DO NOT I WILL BE SCREAMING DO NOT ASK MEEEEEEEE!!).

I have nominated this series already and copiously and since I love it like Winnie the Pooh loves Honey and Christopher Robin PUT TOGETHER (can you even understand such a level of devotion? It’s scary let me tell you) you can reasonably expect me to name it again and again till the end of time or till I have internet. Which, to be fair, it’s actually the same for me: there is no life without you! *hugs rooter*

I am beyond excitement for this one, beyond terror too but honestly all comes to point where, who cares if I’ll die of this book I need it!!

This day can’t come fast enough let me tell you!

IMPORTANT LINKS

My Goodreads

Thelma’s Goodreads

My November Top5 post on Written in Red (book 1)

My Murder of Crows review (book 2)

My Vision in Silver review (book 3)

My Marked in Flesh review (book 4)