Boomerang

✰ 3.5 stars ✰ “I reached up for the boomerang and held the charm so tightly I could feel it cutting into my skin. It doesn’t matter how far you throw a boomerang, Trip told me when he gave it to me. If you throw it right, it’ll always come back to you.” The uniqueness of a Boomerang is that when it......more

Intentionally, it takes a while to get your bearings in this book. Michael disappeared 5 years ago and suddenly shows back up now going by the name Sean. We get bits and pieces of Sean’s story of what happened slowly. It takes a bit to piece together what happened. Everyone thinks Michael was kidnap......more

I just finished this beautiful, character driven story of finding oneself and the complex experiences of becoming an adult. I am broken and rekindled all at once. This book will definitely make my top 10 this year. “You need to know,” he started, and I closed my eyes waiting for him to punch me or t......more

There are two types of multilayered stories: those who have to be unravelled in pretty much the same way one peels an onion, if not with growing irritation at least with alacrity at the pains required, since the entire peel sticks together and cannot easily be torn apart into neat pieces, and those......more

I can’t tell you exactly where the idea for BOOMERANG came from. One day it didn't exist and the next I knew I wanted to tell the story of a boy who everyone assumed had been kidnapped, but who really hadn’t been. A boy who left a bad situation and ended up with something he thought was perfect. Unt......more