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What The Valley Knows
by Heather Christie Publication date: January 25th 2018 Genres: Romance, Young Adult
Synopsis:
Millington Valley is a quintessential small Pennsylvania town: families go back generations. Football rules. Kids drink while adults look the other way. High school is a whirlwind of aspiration and rivalry, friendship and jealousy. When smart and pretty Molly Hanover moves to town and attracts the attention of the football team’s hero, Wade Thornton—a nice guy with a bad drinking habit—longtime friendships are threatened and a popular cheerleader tries to turn the school against Molly. The young couple’s future is shattered when Wade, drunk, wrecks his truck and Molly is thrown through the windshield. She wakes from a coma to find her beauty marred and her memory full of holes. As she struggles to heal, she becomes sure that something terrible happened before the accident. And there is somebody in the valley who doesn’t want her to remember.
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Review:
This book is not the style I usually read, but now I really want to. I love how we get pieces of key characters throughout the book, threading together to get a bigger story. And this story was sad in such a big way. I felt so bad for Molly and Wade, and Molly’s mom, Ann. Such tragedy happens in such a little book. I also liked how detailed the author made the characters. The pages weren’t filled with beautiful people, but girls with glasses, boys with zits, and girls who still wore pigtails while volunteering as a candy striper. The entire book had this old fashion feel to it. I kept picturing it in the 60s until there was a mention of a cell phone. Molly is extremely shy, yet she opens up to Wade in a way she never has with anyone else. They both talk and are the real them with each other. It’s really sweet. However, tragedy is the climax, and then the book takes a turn down a dark road. It gets better, though those dark parts were cringe-worthy, I should warn. And Molly and Wade find themselves on separate roads, trying to find where they fit in a world that has stayed the same while they have changed. A close-to-tears, emotional, unforgettable read.
4.5 Stars
Author Bio:
Heather Christie grew up in rural Pennsylvania and, at age seventeen, took off for New York City in hopes of becoming a movie star. Flash forward several decades, a couple degrees, a bunch of cats, two kids and one husband later, she's back in Pennsylvania writing her heart out and chasing dreams again. She loves to read, run, drink tea, and make Sunday dinner. Follow her blog at www.HeatherChristieBooks.com and say “hello” on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. |
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