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A review by lindsaynixon
We'll Fly Away by Bryan Bliss
4.0
This was pretty good. It came after two fantastic books and I think had I been in a slump I’d rate this higher (3.5 for me).
It wasn’t what I was expecting and I liked that it wasn’t neatly wrapped up.
Summary: The book begins with a death row inmate writing a letter. You’re not sure who the person is, but soon learn it was his childhood best friend. The book flashes back to the past (their senior year) with brief interludes of what is happening now as he sits on death row (this is what is told in the letters). You don’t know until the end WHY he’s on death row or what happened to his friend that he’s writing to. It kept my attention and was mostly a story about two teen boys their senior year (who grew up in poverty/alcoholism/difficult circumstances). That’s not what I was expecting but it was real and honest. It felt very “YA” but with a side of depravity.. making the reader feel how too adult the world was for these boys.
It wasn’t what I was expecting and I liked that it wasn’t neatly wrapped up.
Summary: The book begins with a death row inmate writing a letter. You’re not sure who the person is, but soon learn it was his childhood best friend. The book flashes back to the past (their senior year) with brief interludes of what is happening now as he sits on death row (this is what is told in the letters). You don’t know until the end WHY he’s on death row or what happened to his friend that he’s writing to. It kept my attention and was mostly a story about two teen boys their senior year (who grew up in poverty/alcoholism/difficult circumstances). That’s not what I was expecting but it was real and honest. It felt very “YA” but with a side of depravity.. making the reader feel how too adult the world was for these boys.