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The Sea of Tranquility

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 Gone Girl meets The Perks of Being a Wallflower in this critically acclaimed novel about resilience, forgiveness, love, and second chances.

Two and a half years after an unspeakable tragedy left her a shadow of the girl she once was, Nastya Kashnikov moves to a new town determined to keep her dark past hidden and hold everyone at a distance. But her plans only last so long before she finds herself inexplicably drawn to the one person as isolated as herself: Josh Bennett.

Josh’s story is no secret. Every person he loves has been taken from his life until, at seventeen years old, there is no one left. When your name is synonymous with death, everyone tends to give you your space. Everyone except Nastya who won’t go away until she’s insinuated herself into every aspect of his life. But as the undeniable pull between them intensifies, he starts to wonder if he will ever learn the secrets she’s been hiding—or if he even wants to.

The Sea of Tranquility is a rich, intense, and brilliantly imagined story about a lonely boy, an emotionally fragile girl, and the mira­cle of second chances. Coming of Age Contemporary Contemporary Romance Fiction Genre Fiction Romance Women's Fiction Paranormal Emotions Mental Health
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The characters, the story, the dialogue were all perfect. The narration was fantastic, especially from the female narrator. The male narrator was pretty good too, but felt a bit off in parts. After I fished the book I sat and thought for severally minutes, awed. Couldn't recommend it enough

Exquisite

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read this book 3 times and it still doesn't fail to give me goosebumps and bring a tear to my eye. it's so well written and you just don't expect what happens..
defo one of my faves!!

I absolutely love this book!!

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I was hooked by the unique ‘voice’ of this novel from the very first line, the prose are captivating. The point of view switched between Nastya and Josh, but in both cases the sense of these characters was immediate and honest. I guess this narration was ‘The Death of Bees’ (random blurted thought) meets ‘Pushing the Limits’.

I would have liked more insight into Josh’s head in the second half of the novel and some of Nastya’s decisions seem to come from a far more self-destructive place than you anticipate, but the storytelling was fairly balanced otherwise. I enjoyed the slow growth of their friendship, the way they gradually slipped passed one another’s guard. The secondary characters like Drew and Tierney were well drawn, interesting and entertaining – they were pretty perfect and didn’t feel extraneous.

If you like smart observant characters, romance, heartache and stories to get lost in then this is a good bet. It’s not fantasy, or science fiction, or a Mills and Boon romance, but it will wreck you, steal your breath and your affections, your heart even. It will impress you.

This is a book that was worthy of a recommendation by Colleen Hoover.

Fantastic Debut

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It is not often that you see a novel which is realistic in every way. It is sad to think that such things can happen. I loved them. Yes, I felt that I got to know them. I can understand their motivations. I can relate to them. In some parts of the book, I laughed outloud. Other times, I cryed. I can not recommend it strongly enough.

One Of The Best

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The characters seemed overly 'teenage' but portrayed in an awkward way, there was too much repetition I felt like the author had laboured a point but then laboured it again just for the sake of it rather than moving the story forward. That coupled with the narrators tone, both sounding unnatural it was altogether too painful to continue.

Couldn't finish.

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