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Songbird: Young Adult Romance (English Edition) di [Angela Fristoe]

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There are defining moments in life when everything changes.

For Dani Mays, the day she witnessed her brother's murder changed the course of her life. She bounced between her alcoholic mother and foster homes until she found a permanent home. And a reason to want to stay: Reece Tyler.

After eight years of being best friends, Dani is resigned to her place in the friend zone. Then one little kiss has her questioning whether friendship is still enough. She wants more from Reece, but at what cost?

Faced with the prospect of losing Reece, Dani struggles to escape the power her memories have over her. But the past isn't so easily laid to rest, especially when the people who hurt her the most reappear. Discovering their motives may make the difference between moving on with her life or forever being stuck in the past.

Songbird is a Young Adult Contemporary Romance by USA Today bestselling author* Angela Fristoe. Hauntingly beautiful, Songbird is a touching, coming of age story about overcoming tragedy and the discovery of first love.

*USA Today September 4, 2014

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12 - 18 anni
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209 pagine
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Inglese
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7 - 12
Data di pubblicazione

27 novembre 2013
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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0053NYOQ0
Editore ‏ : ‎ Little Prince Publishing (27 novembre 2013)
Lingua ‏ : ‎ Inglese
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Vivienne F

American teen drama with a serious subject

Recensito nel Regno Unito il 8 aprile 2013

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I share a kindle library with my teenage daughter, which I guess is how I came to have this book, and I would say I am possibly not amongst the target audience. However, I found the book highly readable, and did read far too late into the night to finish it, which is usually a good sign! The difficult subjects of alcoholism and child abuse are at the heart of this story, but they are not tackled in depth. We see the effects of these through the flashbacks of a 17 year old girl, who starts to piece together the incidents that have shaped her life to date. The fact that Dani witnesses the murder of her beloved older brother by her drunken father is a shocking enough start, but her mother's subsequent decline is possibly even more significant to her future. After another shocking incident in foster care, which she blocks out of her memory, Dani eventually finds a loving foster home and a anchors herself to a boy, who becomes the centre of her world. I'm not sure I buy into the whole memory loss thing, which is a highly convenient method of hiding relevant facts from the reader, and whilst the boy-girl best friends scenario seems very popular in American fiction, I'm not sure it happens all that often in real life... however, I couldn't help wanting Dani and Reece to realise they both wanted the same thing, and my heart was in my mouth when the mystery visitor turned up at Dani's door near the end! A nice little read.

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I loved this book! It made me laugh, cry and smile. It's a great read :) :) <3 :) :)

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AnnieR

Good - not the same old, same old

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***SPOILER ALERT***
Songbird, by Angela Fristoe, was a surprisingly good read. Beautifully and lyrically written, full of powerful and painful relationships, true to life with all it's struggles and yet never gritty, this novel wraps you up in the story of Dani, an almost 18 year old with a painful and emotionally crippling past that seems to dominate her present.

The story line has serious potential to become the same old, same old - two young people love each other for years as they grow up, each loving the other romantically but thinking the other's love is platonic until they discover each other's secret...blah blah blah.

But Ms. Friscoe managed to take a common plot line and play it out in new and unusual ways. Dani's past includes her alcoholic and physically abusive father who kills her incredibly sweet, loving and protective big brother in front of her eyes when she is five and then returns a few days later to try to kill her. Meanwhile, her mother drifts into alcoholism to deal with the simultaneous loss of her son and husband, who she continues to love. And Dani spends some years in foster care, including a short episode in a home where her foster brother, Colin, who had been tormenting her every time they were alone, beats her so badly that she ends up in the hospital and is removed from the home.

Finally she ends with an elderly couple who give her the love and security she has never known. She meets a young boy, Reece, when they are both 13, whose life also has it's difficulties and traumas, including the loss of his older sister to a car accident and emotionally and physically absentee parents. But the two of them quickly become best friends and Dani's idolizes him as the only person since her brother's death who she could totally trust to protect her.

The novel starts five years later, as Dani approaches her 18th birthday. But here's where the novel could have gotten sappy but doesn't. Dani's life is not one of roses and daffodils. Her foster parents remain that - they love and care for her, but have not adopted her and as her 18th birthday approaches, she worries over what will happen to their relationship when she officially ages out of the foster care system. And they are not perfect parents or people, each with their own foibles and follies, their own annoyances and difficult moments. She loves them, and believes they love her, but her life is not perfect.

She still longs for Reece with all her heart and watches him play with a series of girlfriends, seemingly oblivious to her love for him. And then a new boy moves to town. After a few days of creepy attention to her, he finally introduces himself, or rather, re-introduces himself to Dani. He is Colin, her former foster brother, and though her memories of the time are strangely dim, she does remember his torment and abuse.

Meanwhile her her relationship with Reece is disrupted. They are still best friends but she longs for a more romantic relationship with him. She finally hopes to get it after she agrees to go to a dance with him as a last-resort friends date and when he sees her dolled up and beautified, he is swept away. Again, could have gotten sickeningly sweet, but it doesn't. Because Reece steps back in fear and tries to go back to being friends and Dani's heart is broken.

Dani is not blameless in the story either. Her response to Reece's withdrawl is a withdrawl of her own - she refuses to speak with Reece or spend time with him, even as she watches him struggle unknown difficulties. She also finds herself strangely alone as she has never made any attempt to make friends other than Reece before. Meanwhile, Colin forces her to remember some of the trauma she experienced in his home as a child, including an attempted sexual abuse, and she realizes that he was, in his childish ways, trying to protect her even back then.

Reece begins to struggle in his life, quitting his beloved football, while Dani befriends Colin and they quickly escalate to dating. And then Dani is put in the opposite position - she has to turn down Colin's love. The example of his behavior in response to her rejection makes her begin to understand the childish way she was behaving towards Reece.

Reece's problems turn out to be bigger than the usual high school drama - a brother dying of cancer and parents who have declared their attention to divorce and then each departed from the home to separate destinations, leaving Reece to manage her brother's illness by himself.

Dani is torn between the love she has for Reece, tempered by disappointment and rejection, and the brotherly love she has for Colin, tempered by the memories his presence dredges up and his continued unrequited feelings. And the specter of Colin's father, the one who tried to sexually abuse her, who did rape his own daughter, causing her to commit suicide, and a foster daughter after Dani, who he later tracked down and attacked, emerges with a series of threatening phone calls.

Sounds fairly cliche' doesn't it? But it's not. The work is beautifully written with dreamy flash-backs as Dani's back-story is revealed bit by bit as moments of her present seem to blend almost seamlessly with her past. Dani lives in this world of recollections that mix so thoroughly with her present that she sees every new event in her life through the prism of past events.

Eventually, things start to work out as expected. Dani and Reece do get together, but it takes quite a bit of growing up on both their parts. Dani dredges up the courage to confront Reece's mom, who, unlike Dani's own, comes to her senses and returns to care for both of her sons. Colin and Reece construct a fragile truce which allows Colin to be mature enough to help Dani understand the part she has played in her own misery and encourages her, despite the pain to himself, to make things right with Reece. And he calls her on her constant musings of the past, pointing out that her strong connection with the past gives her a dreamy detachment from her present.

There's some dramatic tension in the end (I won't give everything away :>) and Dani sees Reece hurt in a way that brings back her brother's ten-year old death in her arms. But it is the juxtapositio of these two very similar events that force her to recognize the difference between past and present and allow her to choose to live her life now, with all it's own challenges, committing to it more fully than she ever has.

But even at the end, the novel does not tie everything up in a neat little bow. Reece does not die as Dani's brother did, but he is injured. Poor Colin, haunted by his father's actions, is left with a new emergence of problems with his mother and the recognition that Dani will never love him as he hopes. Even though Reece is happy to be with Dani, he still has an absentee father and a brother dying of leukemia. And Dani's fears about growing up and leaving the security of her foster home still face her.

But the joy of the book is the growth that Dani goes through. It's not in the resolution of her problems but in the journey she takes and she leaves us with a sense that only now is actually ready to face the necessary step of leaving her past behind her in order to make a new future for herself.

Overall, a powerful but lovely book. It made me cry but filled me with a sense of hope. And did not patronize me by falling into a trite and over-used plot line.

So why not the 5 stars? A couple of unbelievable elements - the fosters who take off each year and leave Dani alone and how strangely absent Colin's mother is to Dani until she is needed to further the plot line. (As Dani and Colin reunited, and Colin's attraction for her grows, it doesn't make sense that he would not have wanted to at least re-introduce Dani and his mother.) And I would have gone just a bit further in the timeline of the story so we could see some of the new ways in which Dani deals with her life after having given up her escapism into her past. We end with her declaration of change but no exactment of it. Maybe an epilogue from a few years later would have helped?

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kklinz

Lovely YA Romance!

Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 15 aprile 2013

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Absolutely beautifully written, clean, inspirational young adult romance!! The story revolves around a young woman who has a very disfunctional family, has faced severe loss in her life, moved around foster home to foster home...but despite all of that, she comes out a winner. She's a good girl, lucky to have been placed in mostly good foster care homes (Note:There is no crying about horrible foster care which I was really thankful for; because as I know there are bad foster care situations, it always seems that the focus goes in that direction. I don't think I have ever read about an overly good foster home, it was nice). She's also been lucky in the friend department as she made friends with a boy in the 3rd grade and remained best friends with him through their current time as seniors in high school. When things get weird with that boy, she finds another boy bestie, also very committed to her. This is a book about friendship, love, relationships, parents, and the world in general for teens following their hearts.
I LOVED it! This was one of those I eenie, meenie, minie, moed when picking out - and I believe I did it just right. SO glad to have read this book. Very touching with excellent characters you care very much for. The only sorta-problem I have with it is that the ending was a little abrupt. It was fairly obvious which direction the main character was moving toward in the end...but - still...I really like things all spelled out for me. Plus, there was so much more that could have been added in. I really appreciate the rare stand-alone book, but this one is one I really think could be series'd-off. I want to know more about these characters and how their lives turn out. I could imagine, but nahhhh...that's WHY I read!!!!
5 sparkling stars! Beautiful! Relevant! Romantic! Touching!

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Charles A. Ray

A Teen Romance That Even Older Readers Can Enjoy

Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 3 maggio 2015

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At the age of six, Dani Mays witnessed her alcoholic, abusive father murder her 16-year-old brother Jacey, and then she is essentially abandoned by her mother who is unable to cope with the tragedy. After years in the foster care system, and a string of foster families, Dani has finally found a place she wants to call home, and someone she wants to be with, Reece Tyler. But, she is still haunted by the demons from her past, and bothered by the fact that Reece doesn’t seem to want to be anything but her friend—while she wants more.
Then, people from her past begin to reappear, and she has to learn to face her memories. Songbird by Angela Fristoe takes us on an emotional roller coaster ride with Dani as she finds herself torn between Reece and Colin, the son of one of the foster families to whom she’d once been assigned. Fristoe writes of teen angst like someone who remembers how terrible the teen years can be, but with the deft hand of an author who also knows how to pen a nail-biting thriller. While this is a romance novel for teens, older readers will also find it compelling reading.

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