Falling to Pieces by Jamie Canosa ~ Blog Tour & Sarah's Review

Suffering the bitter tongues of her alcoholic mother and cruel boyfriend, Jade struggles just to look at herself in the mirror. She hates her life, her insecurities, her ineptitudes, but most of all . . . Jade hates herself. She wants nothing more than to disappear, and everyone seems happy to let her. Until Kiernan Parks moves back into town.

Jade’s been crushing on him ever since kindergarten, when his family moved away. But now he’s back, and looking better than ever.
Hiding is a way of life for Jade, but Kiernan insists on uncovering the real girl he’s sees trapped inside her. On drawing her out of her shell, and showing her that she is someone worthy of love.

Together, they fight back the darkness she’s living in. But when they finally step into the light, will the secret Kiernan’s been trying to keep buried destroy Jade, once and for all?

For some people, happy endings are a fairytale.

WARNING!!  This book will rip your heart out, stomp on it, then leave it in pieces.  Exactly what I look for in a book.  So, if you are like me you should just go buy it right now.  I literally bawled for almost the entire second half of the book.  Just when I thought that I was getting it together my heart was torn again.

Jade Carlson had a real shit hand dealt to her.  Literally everyone in her life was awful to her, and when people did try to be nice to her the years of emotional abuse that she had been dealt made her think that their words were laced with with malice.  I've got to be really honest and say that at first her self hatred made me want to slap her.  But as time went on and I saw all of the things that the people who were supposed to love her did to her, I understood much better why she was that way.  I felt awful for her.

Kiernan was awesome, from the first moment he entered the book I was in love with him.  There was just something about him that completely won me over.  I knew, from the first interaction between him and Jade that he wasn't wrapped up in all of the usual trappings of high school.  The first time that he was completely selfless and non-judgemental in helping her with something I was all in with Kiernan.

Kiernan's family was just as aweome as he was.  At first I wasn't completely sold on Caulder, but Lord did that boy just reach in and rip my heart right out fairly quickly.  Thier mother was just so wonderful, I had a great mom and there were times that I found myself wanting her to be my mom.  I was absolutely in awe of how completely they accepted Jade into their family and loved her without reservation.  If there was ever a person that needed that it was her.

The story was a little slow, for my liking at the very beginning, but in really only took a couple of chapters to be completely engrossed in Jade, Kiernan and their story.  From their initial meeting until the end of the book I could feel that they were perfect together.  Despite, or maybe because of, the hardships that they both suffered they were able to live, for one another, with complete abandon and it was really beautiful to see.

I can't really say much more without ginving away more than I should, but I will say that if you love having your heart broken my a beautifully tragic story then this is the book for you.  I am currently impatiently awaiting the next book in the series.

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Jamie Canosa is a full time author of YA/NA literature, which she absolutely loves. When she’s not writing or spending time with her family, she can usually be found with her nose in a book. She currently resides in Upstate NY with her husband, and their three crazy kids . . . plus the cat, the bird, and the rabbit.

                

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