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Bis Zum Ende Des Sommers (2000)

by Holly Goldberg Sloan(Favorite Author)

3.86 of 5 Votes: 2

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English

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Romance

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I'll Be There

review 1: •I recommend you not read this if you haven't read I'll Be There and would like to•For Sam and Riddle, life is perfect. Their dad has been put in jail, and they get to live in the same time as the Bell family. Sam gets to see the love of his life, Emily, and Riddle gets to live with the Bells. Sadly, this peace that Sam and Emily, Riddle and the rest of the Bell family have been experiencing doesn't last. A new girl, Destiny, comes into town, and she's one thing Sam is familiar with: trouble. Also, Clarence Border is ready to get out of prison. And if he does get out? He's coming for revenge. As the story continues, you get to hear the chapters from Emily's, Sam's, Riddle's, Clarence's, and even Bobby's, or Robb's rather, point of view. This book, while not as good as ... moreI'll Be There, was exceptionally well-written. If you read I'll Be There, you'll want to read this just as realistic sequel.
review 2: Reviewer's Note: I must preface this review by stating that though I have since become aware that this work is the second in a series; all statements made here are based on my former belief that this book was a standalone.Sam and Riddle Border have finally found their way to happy.With their abusive father in jail, Sam in college, and the Bells planning to adopt Riddle...life couldn't be closer to perfect.But no one knows better than the Border boys how flawed the illusion of perfection can be.This is a story that grips one by the heart-strings from word one. You want so badly for everything to work out for Emily, Sam, and Riddle, that closing the book before the inevitable downhill slide happens crosses your mind more than once.Authoress Holly Goldberg Sloan writes foreboding and tension into her tale with an ease and precision that causes readers to feel that they are the one's being "overly sensitive or paranoid" about that evil that seems to be lurking just around the corner.As time and pages prove however, a perceived evil is often rooted in malevolent intent. The surprise and "oooh gotta read it moments" come when readers find out the who's why's and WTF's of the peril, and the lengths to which depravity can drive the human soul.Strangely, it is not any lack in the story that settles the rating for this book just shy of the 5 star mark.It is a character, Destiny, the bad girl drifter, bent on destruction of whatever is in her path.Destiny is supposed to be a menace.What she is in truth is the too loud, too drunk, too needy, girl at the party.She does manage to redeem herself, but not before the damage is done.This is a wonderful story. A great end to a perilous and uplifting journey. less

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