This Raging Light
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4.8 • 4 Ratings
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
Can you fall in love when everything is falling apart?
Estelle Laure is a major new talent to rival John Green and Rainbow Rowell. Her debut novel, This Raging Light, is a heartbreakingly beautiful book that you'll devour in one sitting, but remember forever.
How is it that you suddenly notice a person? How is it that one day Digby was my best friend's admittedly cute twin brother, and then the next he stole air, gave jitters, twisted my insides up?
Lucille has bigger problems than falling for her best friend's unavailable brother. Her mom has gone, leaving her to look after her sister, Wren. With bills mounting up and appearances to keep, Lucille is raging against her life but holding it together - just.
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Seventeen-year-old Lucille is hypercompetent but, then again, she doesn't have much choice. Her father has had a breakdown, her mother took off, and someone has to take care of her younger sister, Wren. In an assured debut, Laure gives Lucille a fierce stubbornness that keeps her going, even as it stops her from asking for help. The only person Lucille trusts is her best friend Eden and because they're a package deal Eden's twin brother, Digby. But Digby is complicated: even though Lucille has known him since they were seven, she has started to feel like she'll die if he doesn't touch her, and she'll die if he does. The characters are well drawn, and Laure effectively depicts the adrenaline rush of love and sex. But with everything Lucille is wrestling to manage finding money for food, paying taxes, keeping her car running, lying about her mother's absence, and parsing her feelings for Digby a potentially fatal accident brought into the mix feels like overkill. Ages 14 up
