![]() ![]() Finley has problems, but her life is also glamorous. The novel strikes dissonant tones, unsuccessfully combining sprightly teen romance with life-or-death topics. While this novel has some similarities to Laurie Halse Anderson’s Wintergirls-another YA novel about an anorexic teenager-Jones’s decision to leave Finley’s “issues” unnamed until the very last pages of the novel is troubling. ![]() ![]() While this has all the makings of an earnest YA Christian romance novel, Jones (A Charmed Life series) throws readers a curve by very gradually revealing that Finley has an eating disorder. Finley becomes fast friends with her host family and strikes up an uneasy relationship with a Robert Pattinson–like movie star who is in Ireland filming his latest vampire flick. In an attempt to feel close to both God and her brother, who was killed in a terrorist bombing, Finley becomes an exchange student in the same Irish village her brother visited several years earlier. Finley Sinclair is many things: an heiress, an accomplished musician, a reformed wild child, and a grieving sister. ![]()
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