Welcome to Adventures in Reading. Today, I am participating in a blog tour for Positively Beautiful. Generally I don't do blog tours anymore unless I either read the book and adored it or I haven't read it, but am very excited for it. Positively Beautiful fell into the former category.
Book Information:
Book Title: Positively Beautiful
Author: Wendy Mills
Published Date: March 3rd, 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Author: Wendy Mills
Published Date: March 3rd, 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Synopsis:
Jodi Picoult for teens meets Lurlene McDaniel. Beautiful written, beautifully moving, a vivid contemporary story of a girl’s unusual but terrible dilemma - and the love story that springs from it.
Erin’s life is taken up with her best friend, Trina, her crush on smoky-eyed, unattainable Michael, and fending off Faith, the vision of perfection who’s somehow always had a knife in for Erin. Her dad, a pilot, died when she was very young, but Erin and her mom are just fine on their own.
Then everything changes forever when Erin’s mom announces she has breast cancer and even worse, the cancer is linked to a rare gene mutation. The chances that Erin has inherited it are frighteningly high. Would it be better to get tested and have major preemptive surgery or spend as much life as she has left in blissful ignorance?
As Erin grapples with the terrible dilemma, her life spirals downward, alleviated only by the flying lessons she starts taking. Up in the sky, following in her dad’s footsteps, Erin finds freedom chasing the horizon. She also finds solace in Ashley, a girl she meets in an online support group. But when, in a moment of madness, Erin flies away to find her new friend, she finds herself on a journey that will take her through not only shock and despair—but ultimately, to a new understanding of the true meaning of beauty and love.
Then everything changes forever when Erin’s mom announces she has breast cancer and even worse, the cancer is linked to a rare gene mutation. The chances that Erin has inherited it are frighteningly high. Would it be better to get tested and have major preemptive surgery or spend as much life as she has left in blissful ignorance?
As Erin grapples with the terrible dilemma, her life spirals downward, alleviated only by the flying lessons she starts taking. Up in the sky, following in her dad’s footsteps, Erin finds freedom chasing the horizon. She also finds solace in Ashley, a girl she meets in an online support group. But when, in a moment of madness, Erin flies away to find her new friend, she finds herself on a journey that will take her through not only shock and despair—but ultimately, to a new understanding of the true meaning of beauty and love.
My Thoughts:
I actually posted a review last month and I'll link to it here, but what I really wanted to talk about was Erin's relationship with her mom. It's such an important part of the book and it was my favorite part of the book. I don't see a lot of positive mother-daughter relationships in YA, so I was happy that Mills chose to write a positive mother-daughter relationship. I related a lot to Erin's relationship with her mom because I have always been very close with my own mom. Watching Erin deal with her mom's illness was absolutely heartbreaking and I kept thinking about how I would have reacted if I was in her position with my mom. It was a beautiful book that made me so thankful that my mom is in decent health. I just couldn't imagine going through what they went through.
Author Biography:
WENDY MILLS was born in Virginia and spent several years in
North Carolina, but now lives with her family on the tropical island of
Bokeelia, off the south-west coast of Florida where she spends her time writing
and dodging hurricanes. She has published adult mysteries with Poisoned Pen
Press, and Positively Beautiful is her first young adult novel. Visit her online at www.wendymillsbooks.com
or on Twitter @WendyMillsBooks.
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I loved the mother-daughter relationship too. It was heartwarming because there isn't really a lot of that.
ReplyDeleteMy mom is my best friend and spends countless patient hours with me brainstorming. There's a reason I dedicated the book to her!
ReplyDeleteThanks for hosting me Alexia! I feel honored. :)
Hi Erin!