This Story focuses on two teens called West and Maggie they're both struggling in their lives West is in a dark world his father is dying and he couldn't tell anyone about it until when he meets Maggie because he thought Maggie was actually a mute, he tells her all his pains and everything that bothers him because he had no one to express it too. however we learn that Maggie the girl everyone sees as a mute isn't really so much quiet person.
she in a dark time also after her father killed her mother ever since then it left her unable to speak because she couldn't cope with the angers and the pain. there was a field party and Maggie was there due to her cousin Brady who is a good friend of West and knew him since they're kids.
I don't have words to capture the feelings I had for this book because it was raw, honest and tense the emotions were all over the place for me reading it and how Abbi wrote these characters you feel them like they're talking to you, telling you in reality what they're going through and I loved how raw the deaths in this book were because sometimes authors struggle to express these kind of feelings.
especially them having to Maggie's mother grave was the most heartbreaking part in the book.
it also reminded me how "The Step Love" I wrote Tommy seeing his mother at the graveyard where she was buried, these things are hard to write about a lot in Young Adult. I loved how everyone wanted to be there for Maggie throughout the book as West Friends Nash, Gunner and the other boys too because it's not something I've seen a lot of times boys don't share a true friendship connect to a girl like this.
Thank you all for listening.
xo
SeekingBookWorm
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