HOW SHE DIED, HOW I LIVED Blog Tour #Giveaway * 3 winners * US

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Disclosure: I received a free book from the publisher. Opinions shared are mine.

Written from a teenager’s perspective, this book takes a tremendously tough topic and carries it to the edges of emotional heartache. I really appreciated the author’s attempt to tackle such a hard issue, though I wish the writing had been more polished. I rate this 4 stars out of 5 when considering it would be easily read by most teens.

Social media and cell phones make the teenage way of life so different. Technology can make a bad situation worse. Even when parents are checking their kids’ cell phones and accounts, things can slip through the cracks. I just pray for my own children and those in my school. The things they face are so much harder than the way things were in my generation!

GIVEAWAY: 3 Winners will receive a finished copy of HOW SHE DIED, HOW I LIVED, US Only.
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About The Book:

Title: HOW SHE DIED, HOW I LIVED

Author: Mary Crockett

Pub. Date: November 13, 2018

Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Formats: Hardcover, Paperback, eBook, audiobook

Pages: 416

Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, Audible, B&N, iBooks, TBD

I was one of five. The five girls Kyle texted that day. The girls it could have been. Only Jamie–beautiful, saintly Jamie–was kind enough to respond. And it got her killed.

On the eve of Kyle’s sentencing a year after Jamie’s death, all the other “chosen ones” are coping in various ways. But our tenacious narrator is full of anger, stuck somewhere between the horrifying past and the unknown future as she tries to piece together why she gets to live, while Jamie is dead.

Now she finds herself drawn to Charlie, Jamie’s boyfriend–knowing all the while that their relationship will always be haunted by what-ifs and why-nots. Is hope possible in the face of such violence? Is forgiveness? How do you go on living when you know it could have been you instead?

About Mary:

A native of the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, Mary grew up as the youngest of six children in a family of misfits. She has worked as everything from a history museum director to a toilet seat hand model.

In her other life, she’s an award-winning poet and teaches creative writing at Roanoke College in Virginia.

If you tweet at her, chances are she will tweet back.

Tour Schedule:

Week One:

11/12/2018- Here’s to Happy Endings– Review

11/13/2018- A Dream Within A Dream– Review

11/14/2018- Novel Novice– Excerpt

11/15/2018- Bri’s Book Nook– Review

11/16/2018- Pretty Deadly Reviews- Review

Week Two:

11/19/2018- The Desert Bibliophile- Review

11/20/2018- Lifestyle of Me– Review